Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peres is seeking an international forum in an effort to recruit Jordan into the peace process. Jordan has made it clear it will not join peace talks without the support of the superpowers and all the parties involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the Palestinians...
...farm belt, the presidential podium and the press corps are flown out to a state fair in Illinois, where he can speak against a backdrop of hay. Should there be a show of concern about the Middle East? Vice President Bush travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The press was driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged and stamped it as news and the press that went along for the ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance...
...contest for the U.S. Senate nomination, Democratic Representative Wyche Fowler defeated Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff in Jimmy Carter's White House. But Fowler faces a formidable rival in November, when he tries to unseat conservative Republican Senator Mack Mattingly...
...high cost of housing inmates are prompting more states to consider alternative types of sentencing like boot-camp prisons. Louisiana, South Carolina and possibly Michigan are planning similar programs. Oklahoma and Georgia within the past three years have opened camps as successful as the one in Parchman. Says David Jordan of the Georgia department of corrections: "We tear them down, then build them up, we hope, with a sense of responsibility, respect for others and a work ethic--things most of them have never had in their lives...
...hoped to visit Morocco's King Hassan II, who two weeks ago hosted a surprise meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, the Vice President was rebuffed. The Moroccan ruler apparently did not want to create the impression that his diplomatic initiative had been an American invention. In Jordan, Bush met with King Hussein, who earlier dismissed the Vice President's call for a Hussein-Peres meeting. Hussein had pointed out that Jordan's long-standing policy is to reject such negotiations unless held within the context of an international peace conference. Bush did not bring his film crew...