Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more recent decades, the Jordanian Jerusalem Times printed an open letter to Adolf Eichmann, asking him to find solace in the fact that his trial would "one day culminate in the liquidation of the remaining six million to avenge your blood...
...West German police apprehended 16 suspected terrorists but then released all but two of them in October 1988, after discovering a cache of explosives and a bomb similar to the one used to destroy Flight 103 eight weeks later. Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian who some authorities believe assembled the Pan Am bomb, was among those set free. Published stories contend that Khreesat was also a German intelligence agent; German authorities deny...
...West German weekly Stern charged that Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian expert in barometric explosives, was arrested in West Germany six weeks before the Lockerbie disaster, along with 15 other suspected terrorists. Fourteen, including Khreesat, were released for lack of evidence. Stern said it had learned that Khreesat had been recruited as an informant for West German intelligence, implying that was the reason he was let go. Though American officials have reportedly confirmed the story, the Bonn government flatly denied...
...economic conditions that provoked the unrest had been simmering for more than a year. Jordan has long been living beyond its means; a decade of Arab aid and overambitious borrowing provided an illusion of prosperity. But lately the money has begun to run out. Since last summer the Jordanian dinar has fallen 45% in value, while unemployment (now about 15%) and inflation (up to 30%) climbed steadily. In late March the government agreed on a budget-balancing plan with the International Monetary Fund aimed at paring the country's deficit and, ultimately, rescheduling Jordan's $6 billion foreign debt...
...time when a little-known Irish actor was cast as Lawrence of Arabia. "These were events that altered my entire life," he told TIME correspondent Anne Constable. "It became a yardstick by which to measure practically anything -- even simple things like human endurance." Stepping into the 130 degrees F Jordanian sun on the first day of shooting, he recalls, "it was so hot it hurt. But within a month I adjusted. I knew it would be as much an adventure as a film, and it was my business to see it through...