Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 10/6/1997
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of October 6, 1997
- European fund to improve Aqaba port
Syria is increasingly competing with Jordan for Iraqi business as relations between the two countries improve, and put more pressure on Jordan, the sole gate to Iraq after the Gulf war, as a gateway for external commerce. Jordan, Economics, 10/11/1997 - Jordan Kicks Mossad out and Yatom to take fall for Netanyahu
Israeli Mossad agents operating in Jordan have reporedly left Amman upon orders from King Hussein who demanded that all Mossad activities in the kingdom be brought to an end Jordan, Politics, 10/10/1997 - Hussein confirms: I sent a Hamas offer to Netanyahu
Observers in Amman believe the Jordanian stand after the assassination attempt and the way that King Hussein reacted to the failed Mossad operation helped bring Netanyahu and Palestine National Authority President Yasser Arafat together. Jordan, Politics, 10/9/1997 - Mossad agents' release raises legal problems
Lawyers in Jordan, meanwhile, called on King Hussein to issue a special clemency that would release Ahmad Daqamseh from prison. Jordan, Judicial, 10/9/1997 - Jordan's future after King Hussien
The king said he had full confidence his brother, chosen as his successor 32 years ago, but said the two men had been working out who from among the large royal family was best qualified to succeed the 50-year old prince. Jordan, Politics, 10/8/1997