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- <text id=89TT1134>
- <title>
- May 01, 1989: World Notes:Jordan
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 01, 1989 Abortion
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 51
- World Notes
- JORDAN
- Revolt in The Desert
- </hdr><body>
- <p> As Jordan's King Hussein discussed the prospects for
- Arab-Israeli peace with George Bush in Washington last week,
- life was decidedly less than peaceful in the monarch's desert
- realm. The trouble started in the southern town of Ma`an when
- thousands of demonstrators attacked government office buildings
- and burned banks to protest increases in the price of food,
- gasoline and other goods. The riots quickly spread to other
- southern towns and then to the northern city of Salt. Hussein's
- brother Crown Prince Hassan, whose car was pelted with stones
- when he visited Ma`an, blamed Islamic fundamentalists for
- exploiting the unrest. At least eight people had been killed,
- apparently all of them civilians.
- </p>
- <p> The 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!"
- </p>
- <p> Leaving the U.S., Hussein canceled a visit to Britain and
- returned home. He had cause for concern. Like Hussein, most of
- the rioters were Bedouins and thus had been considered his most
- loyal subjects.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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