Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasser's style. Last week, in his most anti-American speech since 1964-when he told Washington to "go drink the Red Sea" -Nasser accused the U.S. (to which he owes $169.2 million), and the CIA in particular, of "supporting those Arab prostitutes," King Hussein of Jordan and King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, "in a conspiracy against Arab progress." Speaking for two hours at Cairo University, he also excoriated the U.S. for selling arms to Israel and accused Washington of "waging a war of starvation against the Egyptian people" by withholding shipments of surplus American wheat. What is more...
...proposal went over like a leaden bear. Union leaders protested, the Democratic-controlled legislature announced it would take off a long weekend (including Lincoln's Birthday), and even the Republican Secretary of State, Frank Jordan, said his office would close for the holiday. Worse yet, the chairman of the Assembly's Revenue and Taxation Committee, Republican John Veneman, introduced tax bills markedly different from Republican Reagan's. Veneman proposed, in addition to an increase in the sales tax, which inevitably discriminates against lower-income groups, a general increase in corporate and personal income taxes...
Scheduled meetings of the Arab finance ministers and the Arab Defense Council, two proud pinnacles of "Arab summitry," have been postponed for at least a month, and Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Tunisia plan to boycott the sessions. "As the situation now stands," said Nasser last week, "Arab summits are finished forever." In turn, the usually unexcitable Feisal strongly defended "our right to defend ourselves," and at week's end went into a strategy session on Yemen with visiting King Hussein of Jordan, whose overthrow the Egyptians are known to favor...
...offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
...diplomacy before striking another punitive blow against terrorism. At home, Eshkol is burdened with an economic recession and the highest rate of unemployment (9%) in more than a decade. In the U.N., he has already been censured by the Security Council for Israel's raid on Samu in Jordan last November...