Word: abdullah
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...little tailor's apprentice who shot down Jordan's King Abdullah in Jerusalem last month was obviously only a triggerman. Who were the plotters who had sent him on his mission...
London (and all Christendom) is newly aware of Islam. The shouts of Teheran mobs, the shot that killed King Abdullah, echo years, the world's chancelleries. As it has for 1,300 years, the riddle of Islam still confronts the West. It stands there, some 300 million strong, not giving an inch from Casablanca to the Sulu...
...school tie, trundled off to Harrow, England. Today, he is a thin, straw-hatted upperclassman, with a reputation for athletics and authorship. This year, Feisal wrote a judo manual in Arabic for the use of the Iraqi army, presented the first copy to his great uncle King Abdullah of Jordan, who was assassinated last week. Its title: How to Defend Yourself...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...
Died. King Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, 69, Arab ruler of the Kingdom of Jordan; by an assassin's bullet; in Old Jerusalem (see FOREIGN NEWS...