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...Trade Center, law-enforcement technicians happened on a twisted shard from a van frame. It contained a traceable part of a vehicle ID number, leading to a van-lease paper trail in New Jersey and to a suspect. Four days later, FBI agents arrested Mohammed A. Salameh, 25, a Jordanian national of Palestinian descent residing illegally in the U.S., and charged him with taking part in the bombing. Five people died and more than 1,000 were injured in what a federal prosecutor labeled "the single most destructive act of terrorism ever committed on American soil...
...Jerusalem is central to the Jewish people," he said. "The city is open to all religions, and it was never as free under Jordanian rule--or ever...
That Damascus and Jerusalem may be ready for some progress is perhaps no great surprise. The Syrians, unlike the internally quarrelsome Palestinian- Jordanian delegation, have an unchallenged leader in President Hafez Assad. His immediate goal is regaining the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967. This mountainous region of hardscrabble farms and fields has about 13,000 Israeli settlers, in contrast to 140,000 such settlers in the West Bank. Despite the Golan's symbolic significance to both sides, its importance to Israeli security in the age of the missile has diminished. Though risking loss of support at home, Israeli...
Representatives of Israel, Syria, Lebanon and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation are in attendance...
...Jordanian officials feel unfairly squeezed by Washington. Last year, when Baker urged Taher al-Masri, then Jordan's Prime Minister, to comply with the embargo, he responded, "If you want me to reduce trade with Iraq, then open the gulf states to trade with us." Jordan's economy has been badly hurt by the punishment meted out by the desert kingdoms for King Hussein's support of Saddam in the war. Echoing widespread sentiments in Amman, Minister of Information Mahmoud al-Sherif complains that the volume of smuggling from Turkey and Syria is much greater than that from Jordan...