Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Sybil Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess à-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discothèque; and Jordan Christopher (nè Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know...
Asifa's irregulars operate mainly out of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. They have close links with the year-old Palestine Liberation Organization, which, with the endorsement of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, has raised and trained a 7,000-man army, helped by millions of dollars in cash contributions extracted from the 1,750,000 Palestinian Arabs scattered throughout the Arab world. But unlike P.L.O., Asifa takes orders from no Arab government. Asifa leaders are contemptuous of Nasser's recent warning to the Arab world against involvement in a premature war with Israel. A man close...
...Nasser declared. "Today each Arab state is afraid of the others. We are beset by suspicions, contradictions and distrust." This was confession enough, but the bombshell was still to come. Since the Arab states were not strong enough militarily to defend their planned diversion of the headwaters of the Jordan River, declared Nasser, "then I say: let us postpone the diversion. We must provide for Arab defense before we can carry out our ultimate goal and liberate Palestine...
...Nasser as "the self-proclaimed pioneer of Arab nationalism." Cried Hafez: "What is he waiting for? I went to the first Arab summit 18 months ago under the impression that the conference would lay down plans to liberate Palestine. Instead we were faced with a plan to divert the Jordan waters. Now we are told even this is impossible. Is this the mark of a successful leader...
Banded together in the area are 45 countries-the Commonwealth and its traditional trading partners-as disparate as Jordan, Iceland, Pakistan, Eire, Ghana and South Africa. They invest most of their own foreign-exchange holdings in British gilt-edged bonds, thus swelling the reserves that Britain can use to defend the pound. When these countries run into deficits in their foreign trade, which happens particularly when commodity prices drop, the situation changes: the sterling area members cash in their bonds and thus pull down Britain's reserves. This is precisely what occurred this year; so far, the sterling nations...