Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dina, ended in divorce in 1957 after she had borne him a daughter). Hussein has lately been mending his fences with Nasser to secure his shaky throne, and a British Queen in Amman is hardly to Cairo's liking. Moreover, two-thirds of Jordan's population are Palestinian refugees from British partition days. Hussein's choice of a British girl was made in defiance of the counsel of his closest advisers, and split the royal family itself (the strong-minded Queen Mother was notably absent from Amman when the announcement was made...
Unhappy Rich. For all that, not everybody is happy. Rich young Kuwaitis with fresh Egyptian college diplomas (scholarships are government provided) are restive and so is the growing commercial community, which includes a large number of Palestinian Arabs. They resent the sheiks' autocratic rule (nobody has a vote in Kuwait, and sheiks head all the government offices) and listen avidly to the inflammatory broadcasts from Cairo. They bewail the fact that membership in Nasser's "One Arab Nation" is still denied them. Declared one of the disgruntled: "How can we be happy when so many other Arabs...
...Colombo Plan in 1950, and since that time we have contributed under the Colombo Plan about $30 million to economic development projects in South and Southeast Asia. New Zealand also has a record of substantial support for the assistance programs of the United Nations, including UNRRA, UNICEF, Palestinian and other refugees, the United Nations Technical Assistance Program, Korean Relief and Rehabilitation, as well as the many aid activities of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. Recently, we pledged support for technical assistance for Africa...
...King Hussein got the whispered word by telephone. The doughty little king, at 24, is a veteran survivor of assassination plots, attempted coups, and a four-year feud with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. At 13, lie was standing at his Grandfather Abdullah's side when a Palestinian fanatic shot and killed the old King before a mosque. His first and characteristic impulse last week was to rush straight to the scene. Aides urged him to wait. Even as they argued, a second bomb went off at the Premier's office. Total casualties: eleven dead, 43 wounded...
...arty kid brother. The plot turns on Cecil's attempts to introduce his bride into the pukka colony (her first appearance on the tennis courts is a satiric fiasco) and his maneuvering for a promotion. There is taut melodrama involving the escape of a couple of interned Palestinian terrorists, who call Cecil "Spurgeon the Virgin" (possibly the reason why Author Griffin gave him this family name). At novel's end-complacently unaware of the tragic mess he caused, including the inadvertent killing of his wife-Cecil is scrawling a letter to his old school paper, announcing his promotion...