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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19The Hirsute Hussein
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- As Jordan's King Hussein mounts a last-ditch effort for
- peace, he is sporting a silvery new beard. Some of the King's
- subjects believe he is trying to appear more pious as the gulf
- conflict heats up. Just after Hussein grew the beard, he
- appointed members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood to
- his Cabinet, thereby including that group in the government for
- the first time. Others see the beard's purpose differently,
- concluding that months of fruitless diplomacy have caused the
- King's stress-induced skin rash to act up again.
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