Hussein Asks Nixon Palestine Backing

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Hussein Asks Nixon Palestine Backing WASHINGTON (AP) - Jor- terpreted as approval, some dan's King Hussein arrived at officials • say privately. They the White House today and acknowledged, however, that met with President Nixon to Hussein's initiative at least urge support for his plan to represents some movement in establish a semiautonomous an otherwise-frozen situation.

Palestinian nation on the west Informists say the United bank of the Jordan. States had no part in the Nixon met Hussein in his preparation of the proposal Oval Office in the White and was not informed of it House. Before the start of the actual talks the two posed for officially before the monarch spoke. pictures and chatted.

Military aid to Jordan, sus- The meeting was private and in addition to seeking pended when Hussein ignored American backing for his Washington's advice and went to war against Israel in 1967, Palestinian proposal, Hussein was resumed in the fall of 1970 is expected to ask for $40 mil- after the king defeated the lion in new U.S. military aid Palestinian guerillas in Jor- for the next fiscal year. dan and their Syrian support- HUSSEIN'S visit, his fifth ers.

Under a supplemental ap- since the 1967 Arab-Israeli propriation voted be Congress in December of that year, war and third since Nixon Jordan has received $30 mil- became president, is de- scribed as strictly private. In lion, and the current fiscal- addition to his appointment year budget provides for a $45 with the President, the king million grant to Jordan.

The will lunch with Secretary of Administration is asking for $40 million for the coming State William P. Rogers and fiscal year. return to the White House for a dinner with Nixon.

HUSSEIN is understood to Hussein might elicit an American reaction to his pro- be primarily interested in ob- taining M60 tanks, the main posal for a semiautonomous battle tank in the U.S. arsenal, Palestinian state on the West and new, modern aircraft. Bank, now occupied by Israel.

On Thursday, after his Since the king disclosed his Washington talks, the king plan in a speech March 15, will enter a hospital for a U.S. officials have declined medical checkup. He has had any comment on it. Nor has there been a response from a heart condition.

Zuhayr Mufti, Jordan's new the pro-Arab Soviet Union, de- spite noisy denunciations of ambassador to the United States, presented his creden- the Hussein proposal in sever- al Arab capitals. tials to the President on Mon- day. "You got here just in time," SILENCE should not be in- Nixon told the envoy.

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"Hussein Asks Nixon Palestine Backing," The Sun, 8 October 1973. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1973-008. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1973-008