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...that the U.S. is talking to Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, what should the next step be? For Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, two moderates whose unofficial alliance is seen by the U.S. as a key to peace in the region, the answer is obvious -- and familiar: get the U.S. to budge Israel...
...Mubarak and Hussein see no realistic alternative to strong American activism, since Arafat has made some important concessions on the Arab side but Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains adamant in refusing demands that his country withdraw from the disputed territories. "You have your own connections with the Israelis," Mubarak said. "We are trying hard with the Israelis, but we can't play in the court alone. You should find a way to tackle this problem of how to persuade the Israelis to move forward in the peace process...
...Mubarak and Hussein, speaking separately in Cairo and Amman, discouraged any suggestion that Bush should come up with a new set of peace proposals. As they see it, all the parties to the conflict, except for the present Israeli government, already favor the convening of an international conference that includes Palestinian representation. "We don't need any more new ; initiatives," Hussein said. "There is a general agreement that an international conference would be the venue for the establishment of peace. All the parties have to participate. The Palestinians have to be involved. So we have to get on with...
Persistent as ever, Thatcher, Mitterrand, Mubarak and Hussein were back on the White House telephones urging Reagan to reassess the speech. Using a colorful metaphor, Mubarak told Shultz that Arafat had already taken off his shirt and that the U.S. was asking for his trousers...
...Enough is enough," Arafat told reporters. Then, in an apparent reference to Mubarak's metaphor, he added, "What do you want? Do you want me to striptease?" At last, his dance of many veils...