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Suddenly disenchanted with the ineffectual, corrupt administration of his Premier, Bahjat Talhouni, Hussein fired his entire government. As his new Premier, Hussein chose a tough ex-army officer, Wasfi Tal, 41, who promptly gathered an entirely new Jordanian team, including six graduates from such institutions as Yale and Princeton. Like the King, he was obviously impressed by Washington. Said Wasfi fal: "We are beginning a New Frontier for Jordan...
Budgeting for continuing U.S. aid through 1966. Wasfi Tal wants to spend $357 million to make Jordan self-sufficient in food, develop its small potash and phosphate industry, increase its annual tourist earnings from $11 million to $50 million, and provide new jobs for 90,000 unemployed. He pledges that Jordan's notoriously inefficient civil service will be overhauled from top to bottom...
...would be happiest inspecting Jordan's trees. He is a graduate of Beirut's American University, fought as a British army captain during the war, later served for a spell in the Syrian army, returned to Jordan to become a civil servant. In the tax department. Wasfi Tal is remembered with awe for trying to make rich Jordanians pay their taxes. In the last ten years he has served, intermittently, as a Jordanian diplomat all over the Middle East, and adversaries loudly claim that he fomented anti-government plots in Syria. Lebanon and Iraq...
...crossed fingers, U.S. and British diplomats called it "a tremendous improvement," hoped that Jordan's brave efforts would last more than just a season. But last week also brought a reminder that Jordan's New Frontier is still troubled by old frontiers and old hates. While Wasfi Tal's new government started work, a harmless British eccentric, 56-year-old Ann Lasbury, on a visit to the Holy Land, tried to plant a "Repent" banner on the top of Mount Zion. which straddles the Israel-Jordan border. Fearing a dawn Israeli attack, a Jordanian sentry shot...
...intent crowd in Moscow's Variety Theater, Leningrad Grand Master Mikhail Botvinnik, 49, concentrated on the board in front of him, played with icy calmness to recapture the world chess championship from the man who took it away from him last year: nervous, chain-smoking Mikhail Tal, 24. For the aging Botvinnik, it was a triumph of selfdiscipline: all year he had stayed in training, sharpening his strategy while Tal was living it up in Europe. Botvinnik's endurance paid off in the grueling, three-day 20th game when Tal slumped wearily in his seat after the 121st...