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...Pershing II that Israel is after. Defense Minister Shimon Peres, arriving in Washington last week with a shopping list for $2.3 billion in aid and weapons this year, said that Israel views the Pershing as a deterrent, since it can reach such Arab cities as Damascus, Cairo and Amman with devastating force. As Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin put it last week in Jerusalem: "The stronger we are, the less will be the temptation to attack...
...Hawk ground-to-air missiles. Congress first rebuffed the Administration's request for approval of the sale, but it reversed itself last week after Ford promised that the missiles would be put in fixed positions; this meant that the Hawks could only be used defensively to protect Amman and other cities, and could not be moved forward to support an armored offensive against Israel. Upset by this stipulation, Hussein briefly balked at the deal, but then finally agreed to the U.S. terms. In fact, the King's "temper tantrum," as Washington officials described it, may have stemmed less...
Irritating the radicals was a visit by Syrian President Hafez Assad and a retinue of his Cabinet ministers to Amman. Assad, the first Syrian head of state to visit Jordan in 20 years, flew to Amman to discuss increased military coordination between the two countries. He also sought to ease continuing strained relations between King Hussein and the P.L.O. The visit was something of a triumph for the Jordanian King, whose standing in the Arab world has been steadily reviving since last year's Rabat summit, where Arab leaders accepted Arafat rather than the King as sole spokesman...
...week, Henry Kissinger had insisted that he would not undertake a trip to the Middle East unless he had a reasonably good chance of bringing back a firm agreement. But as the U.S. Secretary of State prepared for another round of his shuttle diplomacy -with visits to Jerusalem, Cairo, Amman, Damascus and Riyadh beginning next week-he changed the rules. He was off on no more than "an exploratory trip" at the request of Egypt and Israel, Kissinger said, and then only because of "the urgency of the situation." Kissinger's hedging-he was not going "to settle anything...
...does has given us no cause for alarm." Actually the Shah was trying to improve Iran's relations with the Arabs, who worry about his military domination of the Persian Gulf and are unhappy about his continuing border battles with Iraq, a staunch ally of Syria. In both Amman and Cairo, the Shah offered aid to his hosts. With U.S. approval, he presented Hussein with a squadron of F-5A fighters being phased out of the Iranian air force for newer U.S. jets. In Cairo, the Shah's experts worked out final details of a massive billion-dollar...