Word: jordanian
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...following the British westward for a "vacation" in Europe. He professed to feel in no further need of help. But as ever, Jordan continued to exist largely on the sufferance of more powerful neighbors who were restrained, if at all, by the feeling that any other solution to the Jordanian problem would be even worse...
...said Hammarskjold, this is because Egypt agrees to its presence. A similar force would not have worked in Lebanon, he said, "without soon becoming a party to the internal conflicts among the nationals of the country." Nor could a U.N. force have replaced the British in Jordan, because the Jordanian government flatly refused to admit...
...Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando for a bit of high-class haggling over tea and Turkish cigarettes...
...price slowly descended to about $5,000. Then Cross and Saad hurried into the British Bank of the Middle East, just outside Jerusalem's ancient Damascus Gate, stepped nervously out again into the teeming, clanking tangle of Arabs and animals in Jericho Road with $5,000 in Jordanian pounds, and hurried back for the final transaction...
Scholarly Glory. All Souls Unitarians will have to travel to Jerusalem to see their acquisition as Jordanian law prohibits any cave finds from being taken out of the country. But the church will have its share of scholarly glory; the new scroll will henceforth be known in bibliographies as the "All Souls Deuteronomy...