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...wanted to hit back at Hussein, Mayor al Masri would have been a logical target. Not only had his appointment received Jordan's tacit approval, but his family is part of the Jordanian Establishment. His elder brother Hikmat is deputy speaker of the Jordanian upper house, and his nephew Taher is Hussein's Foreign Minister...
...potential stumbling block lies in the concept of Palestinian "self- determination," a term generally understood to mean the establishment of an independent Palestinian entity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel adamantly opposes such a move. Jordan's Foreign Minister Taher al Masri argued in Washington last week, however, that the Jordanian-Palestinian "confederation" that Hussein and Arafat have in mind "means that there will be no independent Palestinian state...
...survivors had no shelter, no clothing, no medicine, no food. There was little fresh water, and many were forced to drink a salty brine that had been exposed to the elements and was probably polluted by decomposing bodies. The corpses were ubiquitous. "It was terrible," said Mohammad Taher, who arrived on Urirchar the day after the disaster. "I could not believe what I saw. Bodies were all around. I myself buried at least...
While the three Arab leaders met in Baghdad, Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher Masri was in Washington urging Shultz to embrace the new Arab initiative. He got little more than vague promises of "support and cooperation" from Shultz, who indicated he might meet with Masri and Egypt's foreign minister sometime in the next two months. Warned Masri: "This may be the last chance. The future will only be good for the fanatics and the extremists...
...Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Sutdies sponsored Taher's lecture, called "World Oil Prices: A Saudi Arabian View...