Word: amman
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...than $500 million last year, have virtually disappeared. The sanctions have idled the once thriving port of Aqaba, and shipments of fruits and vegetables are rotting at the border. Deprived of access to foreign markets, Jordan's agricultural and industrial sectors are beginning to atrophy. While food bins in Amman remain full, the possibility of shortages looms closer each...
Washington's motives in the gulf are frequently dismissed in the Arab world as contemptible. High-minded dissertations by U.S. officials on the sovereignty of nations and the sanctity of the new world order evoke smirks in the suqs of such cities as Algiers, Tunis, Damascus and Amman. "All the Americans want is control of the oil," says Abdul Hamid Sadiq, a Syrian archaeologist. Principle, he adds, means nothing to a country that "ignored the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the occupation of Jerusalem and the daily maiming and killing of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank...
Another diplomatic tourist in the Middle East stirred more apprehension in Washington. Yevgeni Primakov, a Soviet expert on the Middle East, visited Baghdad and the Jordanian capital of Amman as a personal representative of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Ostensibly his main purpose in Iraq was to arrange for the departure of 5,174 Soviet citizens, presumably including some military advisers, whose continued presence has been an irritant to the U.S. But Gorbachev's press secretary Vitali Ignatenko, visiting the U.S., spoke to TIME about a possible Middle East conference in which "all the problems of the region could be resolved...
...more refugees pouring out of Iraq, and Jordanian officials predict that as many as 1 million more may arrive in the coming weeks. Apart from the massive crowds in the border camps, Jordan is swamped with 110,000 refugees packed into dozens of transit camps in Amman. The cash-starved kingdom insists that it cannot cope with the additional tens of thousands still stranded at the border, waiting to cross. "The plight of these people has only evoked the faintest of responses from the world community," complains Crown Prince Hassan, King Hussein's brother...
...refugees have been repatriated through Jordan, most of them Egyptians traveling by plane and ship from the port of Aqaba. The number of daily flights from Amman has doubled from 50 to 100 in an effort to evacuate the refugees. India is averaging six flights a day, while Pakistan, which has resettled about 7,000 citizens, sent a passenger ship to Aqaba last week. The International Organization for Migration has launched a $50 million airlift program to aid Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis and others whose impoverished countries have offered little help...