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...scene was novel -- and euphoric: Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres sitting at a table near the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side of the border last week across from his counterpart from Amman, Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali. Meeting for the first time publicly on Jordanian territory, the two men started talking about taking practical steps that would all but end the state of war that has existed between their two countries since...
...Arab neighbors, the place where all roads, pipelines and electrical grids stopped dead at a line on a map. Now that politicians are poised to erase that obstacle, economists can envisage all kinds of projects to make Israel and its neighbors into a prosperous United States of Abraham. Already Jordanian and Israeli negotiators are constructing what one U.S. official calls "pieces of peace" -- practical ways of linking their countries, like formalizing the sharing of scarce water sources, building a road between Egypt and Jordan through Israel, constructing a joint park around the Dead...
...probably a hundred potential violators out there." According to congressional investigators, many front companies established in the late 1980s to purchase parts and technology for Saddam's weapons programs continue to operate in France, Switzerland, Germany, Britain and the U.S. Last month American customs agents arrested a pair of Jordanian nationals, Al. M. Harb and his wife Rula Saba Harb, on charges of using a home-based front company in Midlothian, Virginia, to circumvent the Iraqi embargo. Court documents show that the couple made more than 100 shipments to Iraq over the past three years, including equipment that could...
...based opposition group, who lives with 24-hour police protection. Nor are non- Iranians safe. Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born author of The Satanic Verses, remains under a Tehran death sentence pronounced five years ago and reconfirmed last month. Iranian operatives are suspected in the killings of Saudi and Jordanian intelligence agents as well as the murders of five Turkish intellectuals since 1990. "Turkey is a prime target," says Istanbul police chief Necdet Menzir, "because we are a Muslim country with a secular democratic system...
...have a Jordanian friend in this entryway,"Apodaca said. "I haven't talked to her much aboutthis issue, but now that I've heard the speech Iwant...