Word: nusseibeh
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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...best they could. Hundreds of them still sleep on the sidewalks of Amman, and hundreds of others live in vacant cellars or shallow holes gouged out of the city's rocky hillsides. "We don't know where many of them are," says Reconstruction and Development Minister Hazem Nusseibeh. "If we don't make contact soon, many of them will die during the winter...
...currency reserve of $300 million and has been promised $112 million a year to rebuild its economy by oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya. So far, there are no plans for rebuilding. "There will be no major development of this economy until our territory is returned," says Minister Nusseibeh. "How can we plan intelligently when we don't know how big Jordan will be?" All of Jordan is thus at a standstill, waiting and hoping that some sort of political settlement can be reached with Israel for the return of the West Bank, in whole or in part...