Word: jordaning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region and a concern that increasingly direct U.S. confrontation with Syria would harden the lines between Arab states, on the one hand, and the U.S. and Israel, on the other. The latest U.S. military moves were particularly troubling for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who, along with King Hussein of Jordan, is scheduled to meet with President Reagan in Washington on Tuesday. Mubarak's government is maneuvering to regain admittance to the Arab League, from which Egypt was expelled following the 1979 signing of the Camp David accords. Syria holds a veto over Egypt's renewed membership...
...Lebanon became independent in 1943, after 23 years of French rule under a League of Nations mandate, political power was largely divided between Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims. This demographic equilibrium was jeopardized by the influx of Palestinian refugees following the Arab-Israeli wars of 1948 and 1967 and Jordan's 1971 crackdown on the P.L.O. The resulting destabilization led to Lebanon's 1975-76 civil war, to the presence of Syrian forces, and to the P.L.O.'s "state within a state...
...which had alienated many Lebanese by creating a state within a state in the area. By the standards of occupying forces in the Middle East, the Israelis have behaved reasonably well, but they are resented for staying too long. In a wry allusion to the West Bank of the Jordan River, which Israel has occupied since the 1967 war, southern Lebanon has come to be known to some Israelis and Lebanese as the "North Bank." Says Mohammed Ghaddar, leader of the Shi'ite Muslim Amal militia in the region: "We thought the Israelis would be here...
HOSPITALIZED. Ibn Talal Hussein, 48, King of Jordan; for heart and intestinal tests as well as a general physical; at Ohio's Cleveland Clinic, where Saudi Arabia's late King Khalid and Brazilian President João Baptista de Figueiredo have also been treated...
When the meal is ready the chef calls in the other students by ringing a bell or by blowing loudly through a conch shell, as they do in Jordan J. The evening's chef places the meal on a counter buffet style and students serve themselves, then take their plates back to a long table set against one wall of the room...