Word: majali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier the King picked his court minister, tall, slim Hazza el Majali, 39. Educated as a lawyer, Majali is a Bedouin who grew up in a black tent and rode fiery horses in the desert. His appointment was a gain for the powerful Bedouin families, always the Hashemite throne's most loyal supporters...
...Majali was Hussein's Premier for four days in 1955. He tried to lead Jordan into the ill-fated Baghdad Pact with the West, was forced from office in the rioting that followed. This time he promised: no foreign military pacts...
...Hazza Majali has been under attack by the United Arab Republic's press and radio ever since King Hussein asked him last Tuesday to form a new government replacing that of Samir Rifai...
...over some of Jordan's leaders, including 20-year-old (Harrow, '51-'52) King Hussein. Last week Premier Said el Mufti and four Cabinet members who opposed the pact resigned, and the King promptly appointed a new Cabinet headed by a young (36) lawyer, Hazza el Majali. The new government was ready to accept Templer's package proposals, but first it had to survive a tough test of its authority, mainly among the country's half million destitute Arab refugees from Israel, who are easily inflamed to violence...