Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian Representation. Neither Rabin nor Peres would go to Geneva if that would mean sitting down with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The unresolved question of Palestinian representation at the bargaining table remains the most formidable obstacle to a conference on the Middle East. One possible compromise has the P.L.O. attending Geneva as part of a single Arab delegation; another scheme sees the conference opening without the P.L.O. but with the implicit understanding that the delegates would devise a formula allowing eventual P.L.O. participation. Before leaving, Vance endorsed the "legitimate interests of the Palestinian people." U.S. support of these...
...selfconscious, for so princely an author. Still, when Jordan's bantam King Hussein decided to write his 1962 autobiography, he was remarkably prescient in borrowing Shakespeare's line, "Uneasy Lies the Head." Half of Hussein's kingdom was to fall to Israel after the 1967 war; Palestinian assassins regularly took potshots at him; other Arab rulers virtually ostracized him after Hussein expelled Palestinian fedayeen from his country in 1970. On top of everything else, Jordan's economy weakened as prices for phosphate, the kingdom's principal resource, dropped...
...much has changed for Hussein and his Hashemite kingdom since those days. Though the Israelis continue to occupy Jordan's West Bank, there is encouraging movement toward a peace settlement and the possibility, with Hussein's cooperation, of the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians realize that they probably could not survive as a nation without close administrative ties to Jordan, perhaps as an autonomous member of the federation that Hussein once suggested (see box). For one thing, in addition to 700,000 Palestinians on the West Bank...
...positions have suddenly been reversed. Arafat is in difficulty because his Palestinian forces became too deeply involved in Lebanon's civil war -and on the losing side. Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are privately pressuring the P.L.O. to end the fight against Israel and to accept the West Bank-Gaza state. Hussein figures prominently in these arguments. Last month he was in Aswan at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's invitation to discuss the proposed linkage with the Palestinians, and before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates...
Jordan's King Hussein, 41, has an unforgiving memory. Interviewed by TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn last week in Amman's Raghadan Palace, Hussein was smiling and relaxed through most of their conversation. His mood darkened only once, when talk turned to the possibility of Palestinian guerrillas ever again operating from Jordan against Israel. Those activities prompted Hussein to expel the fedayeen from his country in 1970, and he has no intention, he told Wynn grimly, of opening his doors to them again. On the other hand, he argued that a Palestinian delegation should participate in proposed peace talks...