The World - News from Jan. 12, 1986

Syrian President Hafez Assad indicated to Jordan’s King Hussein recently that he will accede to negotiations with Israel on the occupied Golan Heights, the weekly Egyptian newspaper Akhbar El Yom reported. It quoted sources close to Assad as giving Hussein “a strong impression that he is striving at present to regain the Golan by peaceful methods and that he will accept negotiations with Israel at the appropriate time.”