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Reports of Hussein-Eban _ Meetings 'THE DETROIT
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ister Abba Eban and Deputy ister Abdel Moneim Rifai to form
Nevertheless, Rifai told a news
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Premier Yigal Alton held separ- a new government Monday follow-
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ate meetings with King Hussein of ing the resignation of Prime Min- that "Jordan shall continue to
Jordan in recent months. ister Bahjat al-Talhouni and his adopt the policy of refusing to hold
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cabinet.
direct
talks
with
Israel."
It also was reported that a third
Israeli, who was identified only as The reshuffling was seen by
a "senior official," also participa- some observers here as a move by
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1. or Jordan would admit that such
ni reportedly op-
conferences took place. King Hus-
posed. The for-
sein has been under strong pres-
er prime minis-
sure not to make a deal or to
ter was said to
hold meetings with the Israelis.
ave been at
His grandfather King Abdullah
odds with the
was assassinated July 20, 1951,
ing for some
after meeting with Israeli officials,
me over foreign
., including the present premier,
policy and re-
Mrs. Golda Meir.
portedly objected
Reports of a Hussein-Eban
a confronta-
meeting in the Dorchester Hotel
on between
in London have been circulating
i n g Hussein's
for months. Recently, the New
Beautiful Ceramic
ps and Arab
York German language weekly
errillas in Am-
newspaper Aufbau carried a
an last Novem-
copyright report on the purport- Rifal ber. The govern-
ed meeting by its correspondent merit change came as the king
Richard Yaffe. prepared for a visit to Washington
During his recent visit to the April 8-9. Sources here said For-
United States, Eban was asked eign Minister Rifai's more mod-
; about the Dorchester rumor on the crate views were well known in
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nationally televised pr o g r am Washington and at the United
"Meet the Press' and denied that Nations.
(There was no official evalua-
he and Hussein had met.
It is widely known that contacts tion in Jerusalem of the change
'have been maintained between in Jordan's government. One
NEW
the Israeli government and Am- soure said, however, that the
; man since the Six-Day War replacement of al-Talhouni with
FOLD-AWAY
through West Bank Arab "not- someone more moderate might
ables" who have carried mes- be a political maneuver by King
Hussein to prove his good inten-
sages back and forth.
The New York Times carried a tions on the eve of his visit to
Washington report Tuesday citing Washington and to show that he
"reliable sources" as saying that was still in control of the coun-
King Hussein and Eban have held try.
(It has been known in Israel for
at least two secret meetings in re-
cent months to try to arrange a some time that King Hussein
planned
to replace al-Talhouni, but
settlement but that "their efforts
when possible successors were dis-
were unsuccessful."
Reporter Hedrick Smith said cussed it was not Rifai but such
that the "neutral sources dis- pro-Egyptian politicians as Sulei-
closed that King Hussein was man Nabulsi whd were most fre-
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six
member
nations
was
approved
that the king and Eban met "in
London one or more times last by the agricultural ministers of the
fall . . . and again in January." EEC nations Tuesday.
BEDIKAS CHOMITZ SET
It puts Israel on a par with
He reported that Yusuf Khamis,
(Feather, Wooden Spoon, Candle(
an Israeli Arab and one-time Spain and Turkey, but not with
Morocco
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would have granted Jordan ac- sions
cess to an Israeli Mediterranean all of the Mediterranean countries
port and that would have left concerned at the same time.
The Dutch withdrew their ob-
Jerusalem under Israeli control
but would have given King Hus- jections to giving Tunisia and
Morocco,
former French colonies,
holy
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places. According to the earlier associate status in the six-nation
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Yaffe, report, Jordan also would
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