Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasionally been emboldened to step into the foreign policy arena and make public pronouncements of a type that should be coming from the State Department, or should not be said out loud at all. On a tour of the Middle East last February, for example, Weinberger suggested that Jordan should receive an antiaircraft missile system from the U.S., forcing Reagan to write a soothing letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. On the other hand, Weinberger has scant interest in mastering the complexities of arms control negotiations. He has no background or expertise in the field, and so relies...
...NOTEBOOK: Coach Delaney Smith cited Springfield's Donna Losardo as a solid guard who might have been a little nervous in front of her old Westwood coach...Val Jordan is now sporting crutches, and the Crimson hopes she'll be back for the Dartmouth rematch after Christmas break...
...very satisfactorily, Arafat is addressing himself to another challenge: rebuilding the P.L.O. as a political force. At the recent meeting of the Central Council, he defended his support of the Arab peace plan adopted at Fez, Morocco, in September, as well as his plans for closer relations with Jordan. He is well aware of the rising political power of the West Bank Palestinians, a constituency that is fundamentally at odds with the old-line radicals of the P.L.O. Says a Western diplomat in Damascus: "Arafat has always survived as a great mediator of the P.L.O.'s internal problems...
Arafat spent three days with King Hussein last week, examining the opportunities created by President Reagan's peace plan, which calls for an eventual confederation between Jordan and a Palestinian entity on the West Bank. He and Hussein talked about the forms that future negotiations over the West Bank and Gaza Strip might take. One problem they considered is how to get around Washington's refusal to deal directly with the P.L.O. Accordingly, they discussed the idea that the P.L.O. might authorize non-P.L.O. Palestinians to negotiate in the organization's behalf. They also formed what...
...Pakistan's nuclear capability: I am very categorical about this: Pakistan has no nuclear bomb. And Pakistan has no intentions of having a nuclear capability of JORDAN military significance. We have a modest nuclear capability for which we are trying to acquire a bit of technology for peaceful purposes. We have a nuclear plant in Karachi. We are trying to build another nuclear plant so that by 1984 the gap in our energy requirements will be filled. That...