Word: circassian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even one of Nasser's enemies in the Arab world-the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-showed signs last week of being discreetly available. In his stone Basman Palace in Amman, guarded by Circassian troopers in astrakhan hats, Jordan's King Hussein deftly shifted Prime Ministers. Out went muscular Wasfi Tal, 43, an efficient but Nasser-hating administrator. In came Jordan's "man of crises,'' five-time Prime Minister Samir Rifai, 62, who has been campaigning in recent months for more democracy inside Jordan and an end to antagonism against Nasser...
...last year's hit London play Ross, Playwright Terence Rattigan attempted to probe the nature of Lawrence's wound. The play is built around a crucial incident in Lawrence's life. Posing as a light-skinned Circassian, Lawrence walked into Deraa to scout the defenses and was seized by the Turks. By Lawrence's own account, the Turkish commander tried to assault him sexually; when he refused to comply, he was whipped, bayoneted and finally sodomized by the guards, then set free. As Rattigan sees it, the Turks had recognized Lawrence, and were aware...