Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIRECTOR NEIL JORDAN sees the world through weird-colored lenses. His new film. The Company of Wolves, reels off variations on the Red Riding Hood theme developed with imaginative cittematic flourishes but little psychological subtlety. The result is something of a cross between the Lord of the Rings and Garcia-Marquez, but without the characterizing felicity of Realismo Magico...
...Israelis said they sank the vessel on the high seas about 100 miles west of Tel Aviv. Eight guerrillas were captured, one body was washed ashore, and 19 others aboard were presumed to have drowned. In Jordan, Khalil Wazir, also known as Abu Jihad, the deputy commander of Fatah, the largest P.L.O. guerrilla group, claimed that the commandos were killed in onshore battles with Israeli forces. He said the ship was heading out to sea when it was sunk...
Northeastern, which offers a continuing education program popular among Cambridge police officers, has established a committee to investigate the program following the Globe-series, said John W. Jordan Jr., dean of the university's continuing education branch...
...five years after the Camp David accords, Carter returned to the Middle East. Accompanied by his wife, Rosalynn, and Emory University Middle East expert Kenneth Stein, he visited the key nations in the region--Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel. In each nation, Carter talked to both national leaders and ordinary people in order to gain En understanding of the nature and dimensions of the current stalemate in the area. His latest book, The Blood of Abraham, is the result of these years of questioning, bringing to the page a scattering of insight gained on this trip and during...
...proclivity to give him the benefit of the doubt. It also reveals Carter's tendency to understate the fact that the assassination of two moderate Arab leaders has reduced Israel's faith in the durability of any potential peace agreement. The Killing of Sasat, like the murder of Jordan's King Abdullah in the early 1950's, has left a deep impression on Israelis of all political stripes, an impression Carter ignores in the book...