Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British reneged on part of the deal. The Sherif's son Feisal was made King of Iraq, but a second son, Abdullah, was left with nothing. To make amends, Winston Churchill, then a young British Colonial Secretary, called a conference in Cairo in 1921 which sketched the boundaries of a new kingdom on some unallotted lands near Palestine. The country was called Trans-Jordan...
...Abdullah, as the first King of Trans-Jordan, ruled his country uneventfully for 30 years. The most exciting act of his reign came in 1948 when Israel was created and Abdullah annexed a tract of Palestine west of the Jordan. With land on both sides of the river, the King decided to call his country merely Jordan. Control of it remained firmly in the hands of the Trans-Jordanians, however, and Abdullah's Palestinian subjects on the West Bank never really warmed to their King. Many of them suspected that he might agree to a peaceful settlement with Israel...
AMONG superstitious Arabs, the young King of Jordan is regarded with particular awe because of his uncanny gift for survival. Small wonder. As a teenager, Hussein narrowly escaped the assassin's bullets that cut down his grandfather King Abdullah outside Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque. Since mounting the chronically shaky throne in 1953, Hussein, now 34, has repeatedly evaded bullets and bombs...