Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly nine years have passed since the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his famous trip to Jerusalem, a moment of high drama that led to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. At least one other Arab ruler, King Hussein of Jordan, is believed to have held secret talks over the years with high- ranking Israeli officials. But not until last week did a second Arab leader acknowledge publicly that he had met face to face with a head of the Jewish state...
...shape months ago, after the King dropped hints that he was ready to meet with Peres to see if the Israeli leader had any new peace proposals. Movement on general Arab-Israeli talks sputtered to a halt in February, when King Hussein's attempts to launch negotiations involving Israel, Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization broke down. Peres entered into tentative contacts, relying on emissaries like Moroccan-born Rafael Edri, chairman of the Labor Party faction in the Knesset...
...seat they are seeking is being vacated by Wyche Fowler Jr., who is running for the nomination to oppose Republican Senator Mack Mattingly. Facing Fowler in the Democratic primary is Hamilton Jordan, President Carter's former chief of staff, who while recovering from lymphatic cancer last year ! decided to launch his own political career...
Their contest involves the split between what has become known as "the two Georgias." Jordan, affecting a down-home and folksy style, is popular in the rural areas and farm towns, which still have more than half the state's Democratic primary voters. Standing on the deck of Spivey's pond house near Swainsboro or appearing at a fish fry at Mutt Kennedy's place in Midville, he swaps family tales and corny jokes before giving his stump speech about the need to bring the Democratic Party back to the center...
Fowler, far more urbane and polished, is stronger in Atlanta. He has a wry sense of humor, which he uses to deflect Jordan's charge that he is too far to the left. It reminds him, Fowler smiles, of the time he was marching in a small-town parade and heard an old country boy on the sidewalk growl, "That Fowler even looks like a liberal, don't he?" With its city-slicker vs. good- ole-boy flavor, the Fowler-Jordan race is in some ways a reflection of the Bond-Lewis contest...