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With a rosy flush of expectancy warming her cheeks, Queen Nur, 31, the American-born wife of Jordan's King Hussein, 47, has continued to fulfill her state commitments throughout the final six months of her pregnancy. The new royal baby, expected this week, will be the couple's third: they have two sons, Prince Hamzah, 3, and Prince Hashem, 22 months. Pregnancy, it appears, seems to suit the former Lisa Halaby almost as much as queenship does...
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...