Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zafrulla is a deeply committed antiCommunist, has privately often chided the U.S. for lavishing more attention and money on vacillating neutrals than on such strong supporters as his own Pakistan. A devoted Moslem, he neither smokes nor drinks. Once divorced, he is presently married to a 24-year-old Palestinian Arab beauty, who is now at a finishing school in London. As he took the presidential chair last week, Zafrulla recognized the strains of his post. "0 Allah," he prayed aloud in Arabic, "expand my chest. Make my task easy. Grant me eloquence so that they may understand...
Hussein's choice of an English bride was strongly opposed by the Queen Mother, and widely unpopular among the British-hating Palestinian refugees who comprise two-thirds of the population, but the King refused to change his mind. Muna, as he calls her, has yet to be named Queen. She was shot by Photographer Halsman not far from a cage filled with birds. Said he: "I felt she was like that...
...freedom. In Algeria, Europeans crowded docks and airports, fleeing in terror from their homes and fathers' graves. In India and elsewhere 75,000 Tibetans waited in miserable exile for the time when their mountain homeland would be free of Communist oppression. In the Middle East, a million Palestinian Arabs vegetated for the 14th year in camps and villages, still pawns in the irreconcilable conflict between the Arab states and Israel. In East Berlin, the Wall dammed up the flow of refugees, but men still tunneled beneath it, or leaped over it, or sought to blow it down...
...anti-Hussein invective, accusing the King and his new Premier of being imperialist pawns and even of secretly encouraging Israeli ambitions. As a result of the end of the Arab-Israeli fighting in 1949, Jordan increased its population by about two-thirds; all of the new citizens are Palestinian Arabs, many of them refugees who feel no loyalty either to Hussein or to Jordan. Little Jordan (pop. 1,600,000) gets modest Western aid ($45.5 million from the U.S. and $7,000,000 from Britain in 1961), has a yearly budget deficit of $100 million. Most of its development projects...
Obviously trying to reduce resentment all around, the new Premier declared a moratorium on Jordan's anti-Nasser broadcasts, proclaimed a widespread political amnesty. He also ordered a probe of Jordanian officials suspected of corruption, promised to devote more care to the problems of the country's Palestinian population. All this pleased the unruly Palestinians, who saw other good omens: a heavy rainfall will mean good crops for 1962, and Wasfi's appointment coincided with the birth of Hussein's first son, Prince Abdullah, borne him by his 20-year-old British wife Toni...