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Today the grim days of attacks by "Black September",; as the attacks by the Jordanians on the P.L.O. have come to be known, are played down by the Jordanian government in Amman. For the time being at least, King Hussein has made his peace with the P.L.O. At a summit meeting of Arab leaders in Rabat, Morocco, in 1974, the King agreed that the P.L.O., not Jordan, would represent the interests of the 720,000 residents of the West Bank, the Jordanian territory that was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about...
These frustrations burst out last week at a remarkable gathering at the royal court in Amman, when some 160 prominent professional and religious leaders pelted King Hussein with questions about why Jordan had not broken relations with the U.S. over the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. They went so far as to ask why Jordan was not willing to permit democratic institutions to function. The King handled his interrogators skillfully. To identify with, if not coopt, Palestinian rage over events in Lebanon, the King called for the creation of a People's Army, a sort of militia of all Jordanians...
...refugee camps and be replaced by an international peace-keeping force, including troops from the U.S. and other countries. In the next three days, Palestinians bound for Jordan and Iraq would travel by bus or truck to the Bekaa Valley. From there they would proceed by road to Amman or by air to Baghdad. After that, the Palestinians heading for Egypt and perhaps other Arab countries would depart by air or sea. During the second week, the last of the guerrillas in West Beirut would leave by road for Damascus. The P.L.O. leaders would stay until the end to oversee...
...seven weeks, TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis was stationed in Iraq, reporting on the war with Iran and studying the mood of the nation as it fought to stave off the furious offensive launched by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Shortly after leaving last week for Amman, the Jordanian capital, Brelis filed his impressions of embattled Iraq...
King Hussein of Jordan, a strong ally of Iraq, received Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis last week in his private office on the ground floor of Basman Palace, overlooking Amman. Hussein, who ascended to the Hashemite throne in 1953, has survived a dozen attempts on his life to become the region's senior leader. Generally regarded as a moderate, he has maintained close ties to the U.S., even though he rejected the 1978 Camp David accords on the grounds that they did not go far enough toward solving the Palestinian problem...