As part of that process Mr Sharon came to Jordan to meet King Hussein.
But for Israeli intervention, Assad might have succeeded in toppling King Hussein of Jordan in 1970.
That role was to go to his uncle, King Hussein's brother Prince Hassan, now 55.
That role was long expected to go to his uncle, King Hussein's brother Prince Hassan, now 55.
Mr. Arafat fled to Cairo, where an angry meeting with King Hussein nonetheless led to a ceasefire.
King Hussein had to intervene from his sickbed to sack the prime minister and appoint a replacement.
In 1970, Palestinians, both citizens and refugees, were almost as numerous in Jordan as King Hussein's own Bedouins.
At Pennsylvania's Independence Hall Thursday, former Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan's King Hussein received the Philadelphia Liberty Medal.
Moreover, during his visit to the King Hussein Mosque in Amman on Saturday, Benedict indirectly reasserted his 2006 message.
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At 18, Prince Hamzeh is an unknown quantity (just as King Hussein was when he became king, aged 17).
During King Hussein's recent seven-month absence in America for cancer treatment, an air of paralysis hung over the country.
King Hussein has said that after the attempt on Mr Meshal's life he had considered breaking off relations with Israel.
In 1952, King Hussein of Jordan succeeded to the throne after his father, King Talal, was deposed because of mental illness.
This week, as the Senate trial entered its final phase, Mr Clinton travelled to Jordan for the funeral of King Hussein.
Jordan's King Hussein had held secret talks with Israeli officials, who felt it in their interest to prop up his regime.
King Hussein set political liberalisation in motion but he has now, claim many Jordanians, become the main obstacle in its path.
Most dear to her is the new King Hussein Foundation, which seeks to promote debate and will perhaps offer a humanitarian prize.
But in 1965, when his eldest son, Abdullah, was a child, King Hussein introduced an amendment making his brother, Hassan, crown prince.
Moreover, he has shown survival powers that match or surpass King Hussein's.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey, who met King Hussein on a visit to Jordan in January 1992, expressed "deep personal sorrow".
Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, both of whom are called on to help smooth the diplomatic process, are to come later this month.
Amman's stockmarket barely budged in the face of King Hussein's imminent death, and the Central Bank had little trouble defending the Jordanian dinar.
But King Abdullah's vigorous start won attention for Jordan's economic straits, allaying fears that, bereft of King Hussein, the country would lapse into obscurity.
Since the death of Jordan's King Hussein earlier this year, Mubarak has become Clinton's top consultant in the Arab world on the peace process.
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Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein and now Yasser Arafat appreciated the crucial role of public opinion, with all its fickleness and sentimentality, in Israeli peace-making.
W. de Klerk on handing over power to the elected leader of South Africa's black majority, yet you find no fault in King Hussein's minority rule in Jordan.
King Hussein's vision of alliance with America, peace with Israel, and strictly limited democracy at home is expected to endure, at least for a time.
Her husband assumed the throne in February 1999 after the death of his father, King Hussein , who ruled the country for most of its independent life.
Jordanians, who have gained few political or economic dividends from their 1994 treaty with Israel, approved of King Hussein's fury about Israel's decision to build Har Homa.
The dream of democracy was one of the reasons why they did not, after Israel occupied their land in 1967, want King Hussein's Hashemite rule back again.
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