Word: amman
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...stance on the war and have not fallen sway to Saddam's attempts to turn the conflict into a battle of Arab vs. West. Ordinary Egyptians show no inclination to mob the streets in support of Iraq as hundreds of thousands of other Arabs have done in cities from Amman to Nouakchott. When a small band of demonstrators assembled in Cairo two weeks ago for a march on the presidential palace, bystanders watched approvingly as police broke up the protest with nightsticks. Observed Jordan's Ambassador Nabih Nimr: "Apparently the majority of Egyptians are either quiet or support Mubarak...
...Arab demonstrators gathered in Amman, Jordan, to protest the alleged civilian deaths, waving black flags of mourning and shouting "Death to America...
...some American politicians as a military adaptation of Muhammad Ali's "rope-a- dope" ring strategy: bob, weave, dance and duck until the opponent tires himself out chasing an elusive target; then hit hard. Saddam, in fact, has supposedly used very nearly those words. Says an Arab diplomat in Amman: "Before the war, he was telling everyone, 'We know that the first strike will be for the benefit of the U.S. But we are prepared for them to hit us for two or three weeks. After that, it is our turn.' Saddam's effort will be on the land...
...nine locations across the region. All the correspondents have relied on Almash to assist them with communications problems in filing. When correspondent Scott MacLeod, who had been in Baghdad with Stacks, tried sending a file over the special phone line he had set up at his base in Amman, Jordan, he got music on a local radio station instead of an encouraging dial tone. A call to Almash, and a reconnoiter of his hotel's communications center, solved the problem. Special correspondent Michael Kramer, TIME's insider on the Kuwaiti government-in- exile, headed toward the gulf through London, with...
...vice president. "We became the biggest nuisances the Iraqi government ever saw until the arrival of the U.S. Air Force." By U.S. standards, the exclusive access was a bargain. It cost CNN just $16,000 a month to maintain the wire out of Baghdad and the satellite relay from Amman, Jordan, to the network's headquarters in Atlanta...