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...Rogers follows up meetings in London, Paris and Ankara with a five-nation Middle East circuit this week, the U.S. hopes to make the most of his Cairo visit for peacemaking purposes. Rogers is paying ceremonial calls on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, and will make a brief halt in Amman principally to bolster Jordan's King Hussein...
...elements" in the U.S. approach. That is true largely because the U.S. has lately discerned new elements in the Arab approach. Not long ago, Libya ousted the U.S. Air Force from its huge Wheelus Base; Jordan expelled an American envoy; bombs ripped U.S. cultural centers in Beirut and Amman. Today...
...Jordan, King Hussein has been in a strong position since he defeated the Palestinian guerrillas last September. The U.S. urged Hussein to take on the fedayeen, and according to one Amman diplomat, so did "his officers, his Cabinet, his brothers and even his mother." Since then, a total of $70 million worth of military and economic aid has been, or is to be, sent to Hussein. State Department aides report that assistance for Jordan is presently one of the least difficult items to get through State Department echelons-or through Congress...
...Jordan, King Hussein is using the cease-fire to repair his battered nation in the wake of September's civil war, and to keep pressure on the Palestinian guerrillas. Talking with TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin last week at his Al-Hummar palace outside Amman, the King said: "What the people of lordan need most is a feeling that the country is moving ahead again under a strong, just and progressive government. If there had been a firm hand before September to deal with all the little mistakes as they built up into a crisis, the eruption probably could have...
Married. Leila Khaled, 24, nervy Palestinian commando and a central figure in the multiplane hijacking last September; and a guerrilla identified only as Bassem; in Amman, Jordan...