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...West Bank and Gaza with Jordan. Reagan first welcomed Jordan's King Hussein to the White House and assured him that the pullout of the Marines from Beirut implied no weakening of U.S. support for Jordan against its unfriendly neighbor Syria. The President then invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who also was in Washington, to join him and Hussein at lunch...
Reagan's efforts did not get very far. Israel, fearful that the three heads of state were cooking up some kind of deal at its expense, was anything but reassured by Mubarak's comment at the end of the lunch. As Reagan stood by in silent disapproval, the Egyptian President called on the U.S. to deal directly with the Palestine Liberation Organization. "You can't control the statement of a departing chief of state," said one Reagan lieutenant, who judged Mubarak's statement a public relations "disaster" for Reagan...
...Italy, Ammar el Taghazi, last month. More recently, two radical terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting on a Paris street of Gholam Ali Oveissi, who commanded Iran's army under the Shah. The next day the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, was slain as he left his Paris home. Italy is not alone in serving as a killing ground for Middle Eastern vendettas, and the Red Brigades, specialists in death, may have found new life through ties to the Middle East's more murderous factions...
...weakening U.S. power and prestige in the region and a concern that increasingly direct U.S. confrontation with Syria would harden the lines between Arab states, on the one hand, and the U.S. and Israel, on the other. The latest U.S. military moves were particularly troubling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who, along with King Hussein of Jordan, is scheduled to meet with President Reagan in Washington on Tuesday. Mubarak's government is maneuvering to regain admittance to the Arab League, from which Egypt was expelled following the 1979 signing of the Camp David accords. Syria holds a veto over...
...pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third man escaped injury. Two groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Organization for Liberation and Reform, claimed responsibility for the killings. The next day, the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, 38, was gunned down in similar fashion as he was leaving his Paris residence...