The World - News from Oct. 3, 1985
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Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir appealed to Jordan’s King Hussein to enter into direct negotiations with Israel aimed at achieving a peace treaty. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly, Shamir said that Hussein “should not drown the quest for peace in a sea of conditions . . . such as an international conference and the participation of terrorist organizations in the peace process.” He urged Hussein “to free himself from the clutches of the PLO terrorists.”
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