Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jews. We have the Moslems. Now we're going to fight El Al for the Christian trade." So says Aly Ghandour, managing director of the five-plane Royal Jordanian Airlines. With a new twist on an ancient feud, the Amman-based, government-owned line is challenging its larger Israeli counterpart for what Ghandour calls "the Bible traffic"-Westerners traveling in tour groups to Jerusalem...
...Amman, Jordan...
Cairo Radio aims at Israel twelve hours of daily broadcasting in Hebrew, English and French. Other Hebrew radio programs emanate from Damascus, Baghdad and Amman, which also recently started telecasts in Hebrew...
...whim of the state, or in concentration camps in Iraq? In the face of such tremendous external pressure, no nation has been as even-handed or as liberal in its treatment of ethnic minorities as Israel. Let us pressure those who deserve to be pressured -- the governments in Amman, Cairo, Baghdad and so on. Laurence Cohen
Hussein, who was accompanied to the U.S. by his lissome new wife Alia, sought to draw Nixon's attention to a recent mood of conciliation among Arabs, who for the moment feel that they cannot defeat Israel militarily. Before leaving Amman, the King patched up his long-running quarrel with Egypt and Syria over the status of the Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan, at a meeting of the Arab League Defense Council. As long as the fedayeen are kept in check, Hussein would agree to the re-establishment of the Eastern Front, a largely meaningless unification of Arab armies under...