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...notice, not to be given before news reports of the attack came over the wires. Porath waited through all of Sunday evening for a telephone call from Begin authorizing release of the story. Not until the following day, after Amman Radio sketchily outlined the raid as a joint Israeli-Iranian venture, did Israel give its own version of events...
BORN. To Jordan's American-born and Princeton-educated Queen Noor, 29, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 45: their second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Hashem, for Jordan's ruling Hashemite dynasty...
...Amman, Haig made little headway in his talks with King Hussein. A longtime opponent of the Camp David accords, Hussein refused to confer privately with Haig and insisted on including his advisers in the two-hour meeting; as a member of Hussein's court put it, "The King wanted witnesses." The Jordanian ruler bluntly told Haig that "Israeli intransigence" on the Palestinian problem posed the greatest threat to peace and called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab land. "We see two dangers-Soviet as well as Israeli expansionism," said a Hussein adviser. "If the Americans want...
Hussein, for his part, was not anxious even to appear to be discussing an early entry into the talks. A possible Kissinger visit to Jordan was scrapped when word was passed from Amman that the King would be unavailable to meet with him. Nor was the ex-Secretary's journey hailed by the other important party that has remained outside the Camp David framework, the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians, who have been taking direction from the Palestine Liberation Organization. In Cairo, Kissinger suggested that the P.L.O. might be offered a place at the bargaining table "at a later...
...same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman's Nadwa Palace for the photograph shown here, the royal couple announced that another child-the King's tenth-is expected next spring...