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...instead of showing the President campaigning through Rhode Island, New York, Iowa and Michigan this week, as first scheduled, the TV cameras will shoot some better visuals. Clinton witnessing the signing of a peace treaty in a cleared minefield on the Israeli-Jordanian border. Addressing, separately, the Jordanian and Israeli parliaments. Visiting U.S. troops in Kuwait. Hobnobbing in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat, in Saudi Arabia with King Fahd and in Damascus with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Looking very presidential throughout, no doubt, and maybe winning more votes for Democratic candidates than...
...Middle East, major credit for the Israel-Jordan peace treaty goes to the negotiators on both sides. But the U.S. worked effectively behind the scenes to encourage it. Says Jordanian Information Minister Jawad Anani: "The Americans never told us what to do, but in making suggestions here and there, they used their leverage to impress on the parties the need to come to an agreement." Specifically, a U.S. promise to forgive Jordan's debt, estimated to be as high as $1 billion, and to approve the sale of sophisticated military equipment to Jordan persuaded King Hussein to enter negotiations...
...treaty between Israel and Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists "who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of religion and nationalism . . . You cannot succeed, you will not succeed, you must...
...Syria, the new surge of peacemaking in the Middle East is mostly a spectator sport. When the exuberant Israeli-Jordanian summit took place in Washington last week, Syrians gathered in hushed groups to stare at their television sets as Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warmly pledged an end to a state of war and the beginning of an era of cooperation. Following so quickly on the return of Yasser Arafat and officials of his Palestine Liberation Organization to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, last week's handshake confirmed that the mood in the region...
...mutual development. A $3 billion canal could be dredged linking the Dead Sea with the Red Sea. The natural 1,300-ft. drop in altitude could power turbines, and the electricity generated could desalinate water to irrigate the desert in the Jordan Rift valley. A regional airport near the Jordanian port of Aqaba could relieve air traffic next door in the Israeli city of Eilat; an open border would attract many more tourists to the Red Sea riviera. The electrical grids of the region could be linked to share peak loads and save billions...