Word: noor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the weapons began to reach the rebels last fall, Afghan air strikes inside Pakistan intensified. Now Pakistan insists that the U.S. is responsible for its defense. The Reagan Administration is concerned that if it turns its back on Islamabad, Zia might do the same to the rebels. Says Noor Husain, a veteran Pakistani defense analyst: "The U.S. has got itself in a tight corner...
...peace conference. Bush did not bring his film crew to Jordan, suggesting to some that he holds the potential Jordanian vote in the U.S. in low regard. Nonetheless, on arrival in Amman, Bush and his wife Barbara enjoyed a dinner with the King and his American-born wife, Queen Noor. Said a Bush aide: "They got along like back-porch neighbors." After a sojourn at the King's palace on the Gulf of Aqaba, Bush was scheduled to go on to Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak...
...East peace agreement involving Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as his own kingdom. But the Hashemite monarch has seen his plans crumble in the face of P.L.O. intransigence. Happily Hussein's designs are doing better at the royal palace in Amman. The King, 50, and Queen Noor, 34, the former Lisa Halaby of Washington, recently welcomed a fourth child into their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman, 2. The queen, who earned her architecture degree at Princeton ('74), observes: "Our planning...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Minister without Portfolio Moshe Arens both served in the Knesset and retained their U.S. citizenships. American born Queen Noor of Jordan retained her citizenship when she was crowned...
...that changed in April 1978, when Noor Muhammad Taraki, a Soviet-supported Marxist, seized power in Kabul. It would be 20 months before Moscow would send the first of some 100,000 troops to occupy the country, but Soviet advisers were already leading the Afghan army in search-and-destroy missions across the countryside. The residents of Dobanday first became alarmed when they heard that the new regime was attacking religious leaders and traditions. The authorities then arrested two local elders and decreed that all houses in the settlement be thrown open for inspection...