Word: hussein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hussein & the Arabs...
...even though his grandfather was King, Hussein was far from rich. His family lived in a small, unheated villa in Amman, had to make do on a government stipend of $3,000 a year. The house got so cold one winter, he recalls, that his little sister died of pneumonia. The money once ran so low that his mother had to sell his bicycle in order to pay the bills. His fortunes have since improved. In addition to the three royal residences assigned him, he now has a villa at Aqaba. His real home, however, is a modest converted farmhouse...
...past, Hussein has been the only Arab leader to encourage Palestinian refugees to come out of their camps, get themselves jobs, and take part in the life of the land. But there are no longer any jobs left. Unemployment already stood at 14% before the war, has now hit 25%. Last year, the west bank of the Jordan brought in well over half of the nation's foreign-currency earnings. Without it, Jordan stands to lose most of its tourist earnings of $35 million a year...
...figures list more than 6,000 soldiers killed or missing-but there is evidence that perhaps 5,000 of them are hiding out on the west bank, waiting for a chance to steal across the river and return to Amman. Despite his pleas for military aid from the West, Hussein says that he has got no specific commitments from either the U.S. or Britain. Hussein is far from happy with the way the war was fought. "There was not enough coordination, not enough planning, not enough anything," he says. But he is determined to rebuild his forces, with...
...taken literally and that the West must not take it literally either. Still, elfyza (verbalization) decisively shapes Arab thought and action. Arabic tends to act as a compensatory mechanism, producing a world far more attractive than the real one. Such an escape from reality was the recent blatant Nasser-Hussein lie that Anglo-American planes helped Israel. Arabs believed it because it could have happened: Arab truth is meant to be only approximate or potential. There is no credibility gap among Arabs, so long as a statement, however fantastic, fits in with what they want to hear. "Everyone knows that...