Word: jordanians
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...going to push for the U.S.- Jordanian Free Trade Agreement, now languishing in Congress, to bolster our ally in the Mideast...
...unforeseen factor may exacerbate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: migration out of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Jordanian officials reckon at least 100,000 Palestinians have left the West Bank to work illegally in their country since the intifadeh began. (Israeli sources put the number at about 50,000.) An additional 40,000 Palestinians have fled for the U.S., South America and Egypt. In a population of 3 million under Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority, that's a sizable flight, with sizable consequences. Those who leave tend to worry more about making a living than about politics...
...payment from crime boss Rosario Gambino's family. Wakes up with horse's ass in his bed PAULA POUNDSTONE Comedy Store hecklers sharpen your knives: stand-up comedian and foster parent is arrested for lewd acts with a teen girl KHALID DURAN Author goes into hiding after Jordanian cleric issues death edict for book. As rookie on the Rushdie circuit, he'll make the beer runs...
...Winners KRS-ONE Rapper organizes U.N. Hip-Hop Conference for Peace, proves that despite sluggish record sales, he can still get in the news for something AHMED AL-ABBADI Jordanian M.P. bites off part of rival politician's ear in a parliamentary brawl. MORGAN PRESSEL Twelve-year-old golfer is youngest ever to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. Maybe this will impress that totally hot guy in pre-algebra
...Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza appear to be emerging as a point of contention between Israel and the U.S. Washington has called on Israel to freeze settlement activity, in line with the recommendations of a Jordanian-Egyptian cease-fire proposal and also the conclusion of the Mitchell Report into the causes of the current violence. Yet Israel is strongly opposed to a blanket freeze on settlement activity...