Word: majali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarters on the second floor of the Foreign Ministry building, jovial Premier Hazza Majali, 44, one of the West's best friends in the Arab world, was killed instantly by a huge bomb that burst in his desk drawer...
After a three-year spell of comparative quiescence, Nasser plainly wanted to follow an aggressively Arab-nationalist line in the Middle East. To do this, he was quite prepared to hot things up against Jordan and to make life miserable for Jordan's Premier Hazza Majali, 40, a sophisticated moderate who, before taking the premiership last spring, privately approached Nasser to assure himself of Cairo's benevolence. Now Majali found himself thunderously denounced by "Voice of the Arabs" as "a notorious old imperialist stooge." Not yet attacking King Hussein by name, Nasser himself charged last week...
...Algeria. They would be backed by Cairo and run from Cairo. King Hussein was thus in for another showdown with Nasser. At such times he usually sends for his old troubleshooter, hard-nosed Samir Rifai, to take over as Premier. All Jordan was waiting for the luckless Premier Majali to step down...