Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crisis, which loves a vacuum, hovered last week over the kingdom of Jordan, a desolate desert nation of 1,500,000 Bedouins and Palestine refugees, broke and adrift now that its imperial British creators have left. Last week, seeing his country beset from within and without, Jordan's young (21) King Hussein bravely grabbed power for himself to save his crumbling country from crackup...
...Syria-which would mean the end of Jordan's independence. The Saudis in the south and the Syrians in the north had used the Middle East crisis to send in troops; the Iraqis were poised, ready to intervene, in the northeast; the Israelis eyed that part of the kingdom lying west of the River Jordan...
...economy. Another who bears responsibility is Egypt's Nasser, whose hate-filled Radio Cairo outpourings and political intrigue have inflamed the refugee-camp centers. In this chaotic situation, two Arab leaderships that mistrust each other -Iraq and Saudi Arabia-found common cause in trying to save the artificial kingdom of Jordan from falling to one of two enemies: either the Israelis outside or the Communists within...
...desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan by Syrian army units stationed in Jordan since last fall's Suez invasion. Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower plan aid, the young King publicly denounced Communist influence in the country and set out to purge the Nabulsi Cabinet of its three most blatantly pro-Communist members...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 16--Jordan's new government, which is expected to turn this Middle Eastern kingdom aside from its drift toward the Arab pro-Soviet camp, appeared to be in solid control today. Tough Bedouin troops and security police, who supported 21-year-old King Hussein when he placed his crown on the line at the height of Jordan's six-day political crisis, maintained strict order...