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...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 want Hussein to 'leash' the West Bank to keep it from becoming too radical or too dangerous. They don't want to go through the agonizing process of negotiating Israeli withdrawal only to have a militant Palestinian regime make trouble and wreck the peace...
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...
...spoke last week's mysterious prisoner of Paris in an interview on Jordanian television in 1973. The broadcast was an intelligence officer's delight. Abu Daoud, who had been captured by the Jordanians after attempting to infiltrate Amman at the head of an Al-Fatah commando team, rambled on for nearly three hours, spilling hitherto unknown details of P.L.O. terrorist plots and the inner workings of the guerrilla organization. Why had Abu Daoud been so candid? Had he been tortured into cooperation? Was he, as the Israelis still suspect, a Jordanian double agent? And why, after his release...
...Substitute. The war did settle one thing: as a regional headquarters for businessmen, diplomats, educators and journalists involved in the Middle East, there is no adequate substitute for Beirut. Neither Cairo nor Athens, Amman nor Tehran has proved able to match prewar Beirut in services, location, accommodations, creature comforts and just plain fun. Nor does any other city offer the combination of political, economic and cultural freedom that was the special Beirut cachet. But can that old Beirut of amiable permissiveness ever be reconstructed...
Still, Athens' physical distance poses problems. Some companies plan to maintain their presence in the Middle East by regularly sending executives on prolonged trips through the area. Others will eventually open small branch offices in Amman, Cairo or other cities...