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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...
...Saudis, angered by the King's criticism of the presence of U.S. troops in the region, have halted all oil exports to Jordan. Despite the U.N. embargo, Amman continues to get 80% of its oil from Iraq, which is credited against Baghdad's $310 million debt to Jordan at the less than market rate of $16 per bbl. But fuel purchases on the open market this year could total nearly $900 million...
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...
...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...