Word: bedouin
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...effusive display of friendship between Hussein and the P.L.O. contrasted sharply with their last encounter. In September 1970 the tough, Bedouin-led troops of King Hussein's army crushed an open challenge to his rule by P.L.O. guerrillas, who had created a state within a state in Jordan, much as they later were to do in Lebanon. At least 2,000 guerrillas were killed, and thousands of civilians died or were made homeless. Some 20,000 Palestinians were forced to flee to Lebanon, where their attacks against Israel eventually led to last June's invasion by Israeli forces...
...public, Jordanian officials express the view that relations between the Bedouin minority and the Palestinians are healthy and mutually beneficial. Says a government of icial: "When you talk about Jordan today, you talk about a well-knit Jordanian-Palestinian economy. If you talk about radicalization, Palestinians would be equally affected [for the worse...
...clock in the morning, and Muammar Gaddafi was weary. As host of an Organization of African Unity (O.A.U.) summit, he had been working around the clock for more than a week to try to salvage the conference. When not whisking about in his pale blue Bedouin robes or stylish dark suit, with half a dozen Kalashnikov-toting female bodyguards in blue berets swelling his progress, Gaddafi had spent the previous few days reading reports and consulting with other Arabs about the news from Lebanon. None of it was good from his standpoint. He had just seen off the last...
...body. Her arms flail; her legs buckle; she smiles sweetly through her writhing mouth. An old woman sitting in bed confronts a round slice of bread, tearing it to small bits, which she tosses one by one on the floor; this is her project. In the bed opposite, a Bedouin wearing a white shawl and a deep purple blouse turns from side to side in fierce perplexity. On her forehead one tattoo, on her chin another. These are marks of beauty. "She did not understand what happened," says an orderly...
...timeless ritual of power and brotherhood. Dressed in the long, flowing arbayas of Bedouin chieftains, Saudi King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahd and Prince Abdullah sat in a sumptuous lounge at Riyadh International Airport last week and awaited their royal guests. One by one, special jetliners landed, carrying the rulers of the five Persian Gulf nations that, along with Saudi Arabia, constitute the Gulf Cooperation Council (G.C.C.).* Fahd and Abdullah emerged onto the shimmering tarmac to greet each arriving sheik and sultan, then escorted him in to meet the King. While white-robed Saudi national guardsmen, armed with machine guns...