Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposedly to attend a high-level P.L.O. policy meeting. But soon after arriving in Tunis, he left for a quick trip to Bulgaria, finally returning to Tunisia. Amid all this frenetic travel, whose purpose only the P.L.O. chairman himself could fathom, Arafat studiously managed to avoid going back to Jordan, where he had been engaged in intense discussions with King Hussein a week earlier. By not doing so, he dealt a crippling and possibly fatal blow to the bold Middle East peace plan that Ronald Reagan had proposed last September...
...Jordan B. Millstein '85, vice chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Coordinating Council, read portions of a letter being sent by Hillel to Allison which calls McCloy's role in World War II a "dark moment in American history...
...initiative. For all of its shortcomings, the President's plan represented the only viable hope of continuing the process begun at Camp David nearly five years ago. It was Arafat who foiled any chance of progress last week by refusing to approve official Jordanian participation in the talks. And Jordan's King Hussein, virtually held hostage in his own land by the intimidating presence of Palestinian guerrillas, would rather not join the ranks of the martyrs--men like Sartawi and Anwar Sadat, for example, who dared to break with the PLO leadership and pain dearly for their apostasy...
...with Hussein, Arafat described the political difficulties he faces, not only from P.L.O. hard-liners but from a number of Arab states as well. Hussein then asked Arafat if he would endorse Jordanian participation in U.S.-sponsored peace negotiations, whose aim would be to establish a future relationship between Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. Arafat replied that he could not give the King a mandate to speak for the Palestinians. Arafat reportedly also put aside the idea of authorizing certain Palestinians who are not members of the P.L.O. to participate in future negotiations. When Hussein proposed that a joint...
...Hussein tried to persuade Arafat to grant some kind of recognition to Israel, on the gamble that the U.S. would then meet two key Palestinian demands: recognition of the P.L.O. and acceptance of Palestinian self-determination as a basis for negotiation. Arafat, in reply, proposed that the P.L.O. and Jordan agree to a set of negotiating principles, which would then be presented to an Arab summit meeting for ratification. Explained an aide: "Arafat does not want to make a move without a lot of people moving with him." Referring to Egypt's isolation from the rest of the Arab...