Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms. He has the flashing eyes and the bearing of a highly bred Arab prince; his manners and speech are those of a young Englishman...
...Jordan, with censorship lifted, came the story of how 21-year-old King Hussein snatched control of his desert kingdom from under the noses of the Redlined leaders of the Palestinian Arabs, who outnumber his Bedouins two to one. It was a wild story that combined the dash of a Latin American army coup with the wile of an Arabian Nights adventure...
...overthrow the King. The Moslem Brotherhood took charge of the streets; the Bedouin garrison began attacking officers and an infantry unit known to support Abu Nuwar. They fought first with stones and rifle butts, later with bullets. Twelve men were killed or wounded in the melee. Then, as the desert warriors and the mob merged and started a wild surge down the road to Amman, a loyal officer telephoned Hussein at the palace...
...Helen Hayes, in Four Women in Black, is one of a group of nuns crossing the Arizona desert...
Hussein fired Nabulsi April 10, shortly after the reseolution came out, and set off the chain of events which now finds the desert kingdom quiet under martial law. The King had asked Nabulsi's government to launch an anti-Communist propaganda campaign...