Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tory Leader Edward Heath even wanted it broadened to prevent newspaper and TV interviews with I.R.A. leaders. Only one Labor M.P. questioned the wisdom of rushing through a curtailment of habeas corpus. The sole measure that aroused real objections was the provision allowing British authorities to send United Kingdom citizens who were born in Ulster back home. But those objections were soon voted down. At week's end the emergency legislation was passed unanimously by both the Commons and the Lords. Jenkins further agreed reluctantly to a debate next week on restoration of the death penalty for acts...
...abandon its stated goal of a "democratic-secular state between the Jordan and the Sinai"--which is simply a codeword for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with another Arab state. Israel will have to abandon its claim that Palestinians already have a homeland in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. And Arab governments should support negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in which both sides recognize each other's right to exist. Each party should pledge not to engage in any actions against the other during these negotiations...
...behalf of West Bank Palestinians under pressure from Arab leaders at last month's Rabat summit, had no comment on the speech. Expectations are that he will dissolve Parliament this week, form a new Cabinet and proceed with his announced plans for a "Jordanization" of his kingdom that would exclude Palestinians from power unless they opt for Jordanian nationality. An anti-Palestinian movement has sprung up among East Bank Jordanians. They are urging the King to approve a law that would in effect make Palestinians who fled to the East Bank after 1948 second-class citizens. They would...
Palestinian leaders, on the other hand, are pleading with Hussein not to move against Palestinians in his kingdom until an independent state is set up. Privately, both the Egyptians and the Saudis have urged the King to move slowly lest it appear that he is trying to force the Palestinians to opt for Jordan and against the P.L.O. Nothing, of course, would please Washington and Jerusalem more than if a majority of Palestinians did in fact side with the King and reject the fedayeen organization. The Israelis, who remain adamant about not dealing with terrorists on any matter whatsoever, hope...
...state that the West Bank is the most prosperous part of Jordan, that without it King Hussein presides over a minuscule kingdom and that the East Bank is not as economically viable as the West. In fact, the area of the West Bank is 5,000 sq. km., and that of the East Bank is 96,000. Most of Jordan's agricultural produce comes from the East Bank. Its huge mineral deposits will make it a prosperous country within the next three years...