Word: aqaba
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King Hussein has been providing the Iraqis with more than just moral support and an overland resupply route from the Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. TIME has learned that he has also secretly sent antiaircraft weapons to Iraq to help against the Iranian air force...
...cause with offers of military aid, including some forces from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam in the area...
...being a noncombatant in a Middle East conflict. But Israeli officials expressed concern over the Syrian-Soviet treaty, lest it open the door for the stationing of Soviet troops in Syria. The new flirtation between Jordan and Iraq, not to mention the presence of Soviet supply ships in Aqaba harbor, was also worrisome to the Israelis. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping on the Iraqi bandwagon. I have the impression...
...work by 5:40 a.m. A few minutes after 6, Sadat was stirring, and before long Begin was contemplating a sunrise over Washington from the ninth floor of the Washington Hilton. Both Sadat and Begin had scheduled final meetings with Carter that morning. First, Begin wanted the Gulf of Aqaba to be referred to as Eilat after the city that lies at its head. That solution was easy. Eilat was inserted in parentheses after the mention of Aqaba in the notes accompanying the treaty. But Begin's insistence that the West Bank, so crucial in the coming negotiations...
...After convincing the U.N. that it should withdraw its force from the Sinai, Egypt blockades the Gulf of Aqaba, closing a key Israeli shipping route, and moves its troops to the Israeli border...