WITH HUSSEIN, TOASTING A NEW BEGINNING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605330002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 30, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/01 CIA-RDP90-00965R000605330002-6
WASHINGTON POST
30 May 1985
flit/i: I~ussein, Ibasting a New
By Donnie Radcliffe
Washington Post Staff Writer
Beneath all the restrained opti-
mism was an unmistakable -note of
urgency.
"This journey will have many ob-
stacles," said Secretary of State
.George Shultz, toasting King Hus-
sein of Jordan last night at the State
Department, "but I am ' convinced
the time is fight for us both."
Responded Hussein, raising his
glass to an absent President Rea-
gan:i"Conditions exist now that may
not be with us for very long, and the,
challenge'must be met."
So wound up the. day which found
the king at the White House telling
Reagan that the' Palestine Libera-
tion Organization is ready to nego-
tiate with Israel on conditions that
'' recognize its. right to exist with se-
cure boundaries.
"We have discussed some of. the.
thorniest issues that . plague the..
Middle East,". Shultz told his 200
black-tie 'guests in the Benjamin
Franklin Room, "and -we've seen
progress.-. " .
EXCERPTED
Earlier. Cabinet officers-,- mem=
bers of Congress, and representa-
-tives of U.S. business sauntered
onto the eighth- oor terrace. over-
looking the Potomac to sip their
cocktails.' Among them were CIA
Director William ' Casev.; Defense
Secretary Caspar..'. Weinberger,
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Bal-
drige, Agriculture Secretary John '
Block, Sen. 'Paul 'Trible (R-Va.), .
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John
Vesey and, international investor
David Rockefeller.
BAginn ing
CIA Director William Casey.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/01 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000605330002-6