Word: rifai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When things are at their worst in Jordan, Samir Rifai is summoned. But when the desperate hours have passed, rival courtiers and politicians complain against the tough little Premier's hardfisted ways, and out he goes. Last week, buoyed by a two months' world tour, full of cheer and confidence, assured of the U.S.'s continued $50 million-a-year financial subsidy, young (23) King Hussein abruptly ended the fifth premiership in 15 years of his able but unpopular strongman. It was a sure sign that the King felt safely past the crisis created in Amman...
Hazza Majali has been under attack by the United Arab Republic's press and radio ever since King Hussein asked him last Tuesday to form a new government replacing that of Samir Rifai...
...case trouble started in the King's absence, now wanted to march on Syria's Damascus. Troops swarmed in the streets of Amman, firing shots in the air, shouting: "Long live Hussein!" and "Hussein, we are your men!" Grateful citizens carried Hussein on their shoulders. Premier Samir Rifai informed the U.N. representative in Amman, Pier P. Spinelli, that the government intended to protest Syria's behavior to the U.N. Security Council. Jordan demanded an immediate meeting of the Arab League Council to take action. U.A.R. officials replied that Hussein's plane had been crossing Syria without...
AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 11--Premier Samir Rifai told a cheering emergency session of Parliament last night Jordan will accuse Syria of an act of aggression for intercepting King Hussein's vacation-bound plane. Thunderous applause greeted his announcement that the government would bring the case before the U.N. Security Council and would ask Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to take quick measures for a debate...
Psychoneurosis Must Go! But then the Arabs were heard from. On the second day of the General Assembly debate, new Jordanian Delegate Abdul Monem Rifai, brother to Jordanian Premier Samir el Rifai, did his best to pull the rug out from under one of the essential elements in any Middle East settlement. Jordan, declared Rifai, was flatly opposed to "the dispatch of U.N. forces or U.N. observers to be stationed on Jordan territory." But since young King Hussein's government would almost surely collapse overnight without foreign support, the question...