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...Please, brothers, just one kiss and keep moving." That command, delivered off-camera by an anonymous officer of the Palestine Liberation Organization, could be heard clearly on Jordanian television last week as King Hussein benignly received the embraces, one after another, of 265 P.L.O. guerrillas who had just arrived in his country after a 20-hour trip from Beirut via Cyprus. The guerrillas responded eagerly to their warm welcome, bearing aloft a portrait of Hussein that they had found in one of the rooms at the Mafraq airbase where the homecoming took place. "Long live King Hussein!" the guerrillas cheered...
...perhaps, that faces the greatest danger from the new alignment of Middle East forces. King Hussein, a memher of the Hashemite dynasty,* presides uneasily over a population that is 60% Palestinian. In deference to that predominant group, Hussein has agreed to accept some 1,500 P.L.O. members who hold Jordanian passports. But the King cannot be enthusiastic about the return of a guerrilla group that he brutally attacked and ousted from Jordan in 1971 after some of its factions tried to overthrow his government. Nor can Hussein be reassured by the knowledge that Israel's Sharon has long argued...
...guerrillas in West Beirut would leave by road for Damascus. The P.L.O. leaders would stay until the end to oversee the withdrawal. An alternate plan calls for the first group of Palestinians to be evacuated from Beirut aboard a French ship to the Egyptian port of Alexandria and the Jordanian port of Aqaba...
...Arabs is a demographic nightmare for a country whose current population already includes 640,000 Israeli Arabs along with 3.3 million Jews. Largely for this reason, Opposition Leader Peres advocates negotiations among Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians (but not the P.L.O.) that would lead to the establishment of a Jordanian-Palestinian state. This he believes would not only resolve the Palestinian problem but assure the survival of Israel as "a Jewish, democratic state that does not aspire to rule another people...
...seven weeks, TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis was stationed in Iraq, reporting on the war with Iran and studying the mood of the nation as it fought to stave off the furious offensive launched by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Shortly after leaving last week for Amman, the Jordanian capital, Brelis filed his impressions of embattled Iraq...