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...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...
...anti-Communist rioters' anger was sparked in part by the government's failure to remove the hated Communist red star from the roof of the party building, but the flames were stoked by the government's inability to cope with a depressed economy and the prospects of winter shortages. Admitted Socialist leader Alexander Lilov: "Radical reforms should have absolute priority before all other questions...
...refugees are a problem for Jordan's King Hussein, whose country lacks the resources to cope with the human tide. Last week Jordan announced that it was temporarily closing its border with Iraq because of "concern for the health situation of the arrivals and to make suitable arrangements for their stay in Jordan." Nevertheless, two days after the announcement, the border reopened and thousands of people came pouring in. As the plight of the refugees continued to worsen, an international relief effort picked up steam. In Geneva a United Nations official said 30 to 40 tons of emergency aid, including...
...mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nuding on the Middle ages. And now you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only...
...Despite the lack of vision from Washington, this country has enormous strengths that can get us through a difficult time," he says. "The baby boomers, who grew up with the civil rights and women's movements, Vietnam and the sexual revolution, will have control of the country. How they cope will be the biggest story around...