Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...substantive policy, kept the State Department at the forefront of power but alienated other officials and finally the President. Shultz was hailed as a calm and soothing replacement, a man to whom power flows naturally. Last September he engineered what then seemed the sound plan of trying to bring Jordan into negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Soon afterward, he succeeded in quietly reversing the Administration's impetuous embargo on parts for the Soviet gas pipeline, which threatened to split the NATO alliance...
...been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first swing through the region this week, meeting with Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, among others. There is no indication, however, that the argument will change Syrian President Hafez Assad's mind...
Looking more like typical tourists than reigning royals, Queen Noor of Jordan, 31, and her husband King Hussein, 47, have been spending a couple of weeks along the French Riviera on "a strictly private family holiday." With Sons Hamzah, 3, Hashem, 2, and three-month-old Princess Iman in tow, the couple relaxed in a villa near Cannes. To pass the time, they savored ice cream on the terrace of St.-Tropez's chic Chez Sénéquier, sunned aboard a cabin cruiser named Sinbad and supped with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who was also briefly...
...Gemayel stopped in France to confer with King Hussein of Jordan, who was vacationing near Nice. In Washington the Lebanese President warned his hosts that if the U.S. did not persuade both Israel and Syria to withdraw their troops from Lebanon soon, his fragile government could collapse. Gemayel also expressed his opposition to Israel's redeployment plan. Said he: "The partial withdrawal gives the impression, unfortunately, and I can't believe it, that the U.S. effort has failed...
...future of the Reagan peace plan, which would link the West Bank and Gaza to Jordan. Why don't the Americans support self-determination for the Palestinians? Last year they backed self-determination for 2,000 people on the Falkland Islands. So why do they refuse the same principle for 5 million Palestinians...