Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in 1947, a young Bedouin boy was herding sheep or smuggling goods across the Jordan River, both of which his ancestors had probably done for thousands of years...
...list lengthens with every game, and a rising chorus is beginning to suggest that the rash of injuries is more than just the breaks of the game. "Dirty players are gone," answers Tackle Henry Jordan, but his disingenuous comment suggests that the writers and fans may be right. Today's players, he says, are "so well trained they know how to hurt you scientifically." Packer Linebacker Lee Roy Caffey, himself an ankle patient, explains that money adds to their skill. When you put enough cash on the line, says Caffey, "it tends to bring out the best in people...
Food is no problem: thanks to abundant crops and heavy donations from other Arab countries, Jordan now has enough basic foodstuffs to supply all the camps for more than a year. However, not all the refugees live in the camps. In the chaos of their first desperate days of flight, thousands found their own shelter as best they could. Hundreds of them still sleep on the sidewalks of Amman, and hundreds of others live in vacant cellars or shallow holes gouged out of the city's rocky hillsides. "We don't know where many of them are," says...
...Plans. Jordan's economy is in a state of suspended animation. Tourism is dead; without the Old City of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Jordan is lucky to attract a dozen tourists a week. The loss of the West Bank deprived the nation of a quarter of its farmland, more than half its production of vegetables, olives and fruit, 30% of its wheat, 48% of its industry and nearly half of its 2.1 million people, including many of its wealthiest taxpayers. Unemployment, swelled by the flood of refugees, has soared to 35% and is still climbing; factories, unable to sell their...
...rebuild its economy by oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya. So far, there are no plans for rebuilding. "There will be no major development of this economy until our territory is returned," says Minister Nusseibeh. "How can we plan intelligently when we don't know how big Jordan will be?" All of Jordan is thus at a standstill, waiting and hoping that some sort of political settlement can be reached with Israel for the return of the West Bank, in whole or in part...