Word: nur
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LONDON_Leaders of Britain's National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) called off a day-old national rail strike yesterday after their stoppage brought transport chaos to London, already gripped by a week-old-subway shutdown...
Delegates at the NUR's annual conference in Plymouth, a coastal resort in southwest England, voted 47-30 to suspend the strike after thousands of their 117,500 members defied the strike call and kept some trains running...
...seemed to get along well, and the Jordanian King pronounced himself "more reassured" than after any of his many previous visits to Washington. (He first came to the U.S. during the Eisenhower Administration, and has now conferred with six U.S. Presidents.) Hussein's young American-born wife, Queen Nur, the former Lisa Halaby, and Nancy Reagan also posed amiably for pictures. But little of substance was accomplished. Hussein politely but firmly repeated his refusal to join in the Camp David process, called the Fahd plan "worthy of consideration," and insisted that the P.L.O. ought to be brought into...
Foreign Minister Shah Mohammed Dost, 52, is a remarkable study in survival. He has been a career diplomat for 25 years, serving King Zahir until he was deposed in 1973, Mohammed Daoud, who was overthrown and killed in 1978, and then a succession of three Communist leaders, Nur Mohammed Taraki, Amin and now Karmal...
...daughter of a former Pan Am president, Princeton grad, aspiring architect and freewheeling all-American girl. Then she became the fourth wife of Jordan's King Hussein, now 46, and nothing -not her name, nationality, religion or rank-is the same. Jordan's 29-year-old Queen Nur has mastered Arabic, become involved in her country's arts and environmental movement and, after a miscarriage, borne her husband a son, Prince Hamzah, now nine months old. Shortly after posing next to an oil portrait of Nur at Amman's Nadwa Palace for the photograph shown here...