Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead with a bullet in his chest. General Mohammed Nmichi, commander of Morocco's air force, was killed, as were three army generals and two Cabinet Ministers. At least 100 people were wounded including Saudi Arabian Ambassador Fakhri el Adhr and the King's brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah. Hundreds who had expected a pleasant summer outing were terrified and scattered for cover...
...partitioned what remained of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. When Arab armies marched on the infant state of Israel the following year−and were clobbered−the Israelis retaliated by seizing 1,400 square miles of Arab territory. Transjordan's King Abdullah, grandfather of the present King Hussein, annexed the Jordan River's West Bank, a sizable chunk of Palestine; he renamed his expanded kingdom simply Jordan. In the Six-Day War, Israel captured the West Bank as well as the Arab quarter of Jerusalem. This marked the 25th time that the old city, a holy...
Houses of Hair. The Hashemite kings of Jordan set in motion the forces that have led to this shift in loyalties. Amman was a dusty musabilah, or market town, when King Abdullah, Hussein's grandfather, made it the capital of his new kingdom in 1921. Most of the country's Bedouins roamed Transjordan's eastern deserts, proud and hawklike men who scorned as inferiors the Arabs in cities. Allah made the Bedouin and the camel, they were wont to say, and then Allah made the town Arab out of the camel's droppings...
...Abdullah won the loyalty of this fierce, independent people by protecting them from the even fiercer Wahhabi tribes of neighboring Saudi Arabia with his British-trained Arab Legion. But the legion, under Sir John Bagot Glubb ("Glubb Pasha"), also imposed an ever-increasing degree of internal order, forbidding the gazu and destroying the tribes' stockpiles of arms. Civilization, in the shape of the road and the automobile, ended the demand for camels and forced the nomads to fold up their goat-hair tents and drift into towns and villages. Today the Beni Sakhr prosper by dealing in real estate...
...daughter, and after two years Hussein quietly divorced her. He soon married a brunette British secretary named Toni Gardiner, whose father was an army officer stationed in Jordan; a convert to Islam, she is known as the Princess Muna, Arabic for "heart's desire." They have two sons, Abdullah, 8, and Feisal, 7, and two-year-old twin daughters, Zein and Aisha. Last week Abdullah and Feisal were tucked off to a British boarding school with a fatherly message from Amman to "be good and work hard...