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- <text id=91TT0163>
- <title>
- Jan. 21, 1991: The Hirsute Hussein
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 21, 1991 January 15:Deadline For War
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 19
- The Hirsute Hussein
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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