Word: rifai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amman, but the damage had already been done. Four days of violent protests across the country had left eight dead, 89 injured and the government under fire. As soon as he arrived from Washington, Hussein moved swiftly to contain the trouble, replacing his Prime Minister of four years, Zaid Rifai. A few days later, the King announced "speedy steps" toward Jordan's first parliamentary elections in 22 years...
King Hussein escaped personal blame, but Rifai was widely faulted. According + to Professor Ismail Abdul Rahman, an economist at the University of Jordan, the government's "fatal mistake" was avoiding action for years, then trying to do too much too fast...
...people looking up past those beautiful flowers and fountains. You see the people's house symbolized by the people looking in. It's not some naive view. We're talking about the people's house, and a continuity. I said to Prime Minister Zaid Rifai,* "You guys have to come out here and see something before you leave...
FOOTNOTE: *A day after returning to Jordan from the U.S., Rifai was sacked last week by King Hussein in the wake of riots over price rises...
...disturbances shocked many Jordanians, whose country has been remarkably stable for nearly two decades in spite of its precarious geographical location. Outwardly the protesters focused their anger on Prime Minister Zaid Rifai, chanting, "This man must resign, or we will burn the country...