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...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...
BORN. To Jordan's American-born, Princeton-educated Queen Nur, 28, the former Lisa Halaby, and King Hussein, 44: a son, her first child, his eighth; in Amman. Name: Hamzah, after an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad...
...boast that they control 80% of the Ogaden; they also concede that they have no hope of driving the Soviet-commanded force of 60,000 Ethiopian militiamen, supported by 6,000 Cuban soldiers, from their strongholds in Jijiga, Harar and Dire Dawa. "It is a stalemate," says Hussein Mohamed Nur, the slender commander of the liberation army in the region near Karraro. "They control the big towns, and we control everything else. They never come out unless it is in a big convoy with tanks and armored cars. Then we attack them and destroy many vehides. On the other hand...
...DELHI--President Nur Mohammed Taraki of Afghanistan resigned the presidency and leadership of the ruling party here yesterday, as intensifying rebel warfare and political dissension pushed the country into turmoil...
...Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East," Michael M. J. Fischer and Nur Yalman...