Word: noor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bold step by Reagan in an election year seemed humiliating to Hussein. At this point, as the King told TIME editors and correspondents last week (see box), private protest seemed futile and he decided to go public. At the same time, his American-born wife, Queen Noor, who was already touring the U.S., began making speeches on her husband's behalf. In Washington last week, she declared that U.S. ideals are being eroded by "an intransigent Israeli will...
Looking more like typical tourists than reigning royals, Queen Noor of Jordan, 31, and her husband King Hussein, 47, have been spending a couple of weeks along the French Riviera on "a strictly private family holiday." With Sons Hamzah, 3, Hashem, 2, and three-month-old Princess Iman in tow, the couple relaxed in a villa near Cannes. To pass the time, they savored ice cream on the terrace of St.-Tropez's chic Chez Sénéquier, sunned aboard a cabin cruiser named Sinbad and supped with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who was also briefly...
...BORN. To Noor el Hussein, 31, American-born Queen of Jordan, and King Hussein, 47: their third child, first daughter; in Amman. Name: Iman (Arabic for faith...
...clearly of the utmost importance that Afghanistan should have the right leader. The choice was between Karmal, who headed the Parcham faction in the Afghan Communist party, and [Noor Mohammed] Taraki, who headed the Khalq faction. We knew a lot about both men. In the papers we put to the Politburo, we scrupulously assessed their strengths and weaknesses. Our assessment made it clear that Taraki would be a disastrous choice. He was savage by temperament, had little feel for handling complex political issues, and would be easily influenced by his cronies, but not by us. Karmal, on the other hand...
BORN. To Jordan's American-born and Princeton-educated Queen Noor, 29, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 45: their second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Hashem, for Jordan's ruling Hashemite dynasty...