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Engaged. Princess Alia, 21, oldest daughter of Jordan's King Hussein; and Nasser Wasfi Mirza, 32, a member of the royal Cabinet and son of a former government minister. Alia, after whom the Jordanian national airline was named, is an English literature student at the University of Jordan...
...script for Amman, Riyadh and Damascus is a replay of Cairo. Jordan's King Hussein, however, is distracted by grief over the death of his 28-year-old wife Alia, who was killed last week in a helicopter crash. The quick Lebanon stopover-a brief four hours-is purely symbolic: a demonstration of Washington's sympathy for the enormous reconstruction problems facing that war-ravaged country...
Died. Queen Alia of Jordan, 28, third wife of King Hussein; in a helicopter crash while returning from a hospital inspection tour in southern Jordan with Health Minister Mohammed al Beshir, who was also killed. The first of Hussein's wives to be crowned queen, Alia was active in charitable work and was an advocate of women's rights. She liked fast cars, water-skiing and blue jeans-a style she picked up while studying political science at Hunter College in New York City, where her father was a Jordanian delegate...
With the decline of Schwarzwdlder Kirschtorte, sauce bearnaise and fettuccine alia crema, the Continent is now the world's biggest−so to speak−growth area for New York-based Weight Watchers' International. "Concern with losing weight is now as important in Europe as it is in the U.S.," says W.W. Founder Jean Nidetch. "You don't see fat people on the Champs-Elysees. But they are there, lurking at home. And they are miserable...
...Alia is ten years old and on the verge of showing a profit for the first time; it survived its first decade on government subsidy. Cabin service is up to the standards of Western airlines. Pilots and their crews, once mostly foreigners, are now 80% Jordanian. They fly one 707, two 720s and two Caravelles-which will doubtless be sold to make room for two new 727s recently approved for purchase by the Jordanian Cabinet. The line's major customers are still Palestinians from round the world returning home for a visit and Moslems from Arab states and Black...