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TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott talked to dozens of Palestinians in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and found not one who disapproved of the terrorist raid that precipitated the Israeli invasion. "Good, good," declared a hotel doorman. "Three times more, that's what we need...
During that war, claims Professor Said, "780,000 Arabs fled from the country." According to other sources, only 540,000 Arabs did so. The reason that they left, wrote a Jordanian newspaper in 1954: "The Arab governments told us: Get out so that we can get in! So we got out but they...
...years they had the opportunity to exercise the principle of "self-determination" in those areas that Jordan had invaded and held. In Jordan itself, such Palestinians are the majority of the citizens, and serve as high officials and members of the Jordanian government. Yet they did not create a "Democratic Secular State." Why? The reason lies in the intentions of the PLO leaders...
...that Sadat hopes will encourage Jordan's King Hussein to join him in further negotiations with the Israelis. From Hussein's words of support for Sadat last week, and from the harsh criticism of Hussein by the Syrians, who oppose the Sadat initiative, it appeared that the Jordanian monarch might be on the verge of doing just that. With the peace initiative again gaining momentum, Sadat accepted a U.S. invitation to visit Washington this weekend for talks with President Carter. Begin is scheduled to visit the U.S. in late March or early April in connection with ceremonies marking...
...meantime, the Shah of Iran visited Sadat in an effort to find a way to invite King Hussein's participation. The Shah also favors the creation of an autonomous West Bank-Gaza region under Jordanian sovereignty. He then flew to Riyadh for talks with Saudi Arabian leaders. The Saudis share the Shah's desire for a settlement, though they have a longstanding suspicion of the Iranians and are privately uneasy about the possibility of an Iranian-Israeli-Egyptian axis emerging after an eventual peace settlement...