Word: amman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coming the other way, legally, a half-mile-long column of oil tankers stream beneath a giant portrait of Saddam that marks an archway over the desert border. Each day they bring 50,000 bbl. of cut-rate fuel to Amman to sustain the stumbling economy of Jordan...
...illegal cargoes that are eventually trucked into Iraq enter Jordan via ships docking at Aqaba. Confronted with the CIA'S evidence of cross-border smuggling, however, Hussein has finally ordered officials to stop the trade. Truck traffic from Jordan to Iraq has since declined by a third. In Amman last week, Secretary of State James Baker acknowledged a "reduced leakage of goods across the Jordanian-Iraqi border...
Before King Hussein tightened oversight, U.S. intelligence analysts estimate, from 35 to 50 companies in Amman handled the business, many of them Iraqi fronts established after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait two years ago. Al- Bawadi Co., for example, an Amman importer of European goods, has been identified by Western intelligence as the creation of Saddam's half brother Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who directs Iraq's internal security. Arabco, which deals in military equipment, was also identified by Western intelligence as a firm run by Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel. With an estimated $30 billion stashed in foreign...
...hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle East this January, the wettest, coldest winter in recent memory was capped by a storm that blanketed Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem with much more snow than anyone there had seen for 40 years...
Partly in response to that competitive threat, Johnson has speeded up efforts to improve CNN's international reporting and programming. Bureaus in Amman, Rio de Janeiro and New Delhi have just been opened; another, in Bangkok, will be in operation by March, giving CNN a total of 16 foreign bureaus, along with eight bureaus in the U.S. Two more hours of original programming will be added to CNN International's daily schedule by mid-1992. In addition, a growing amount of CNN's domestic fare (like World Report, a collection of stories by foreign broadcasters) seems geared as much...