Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...King George...
...mythology -- and needs some freshening up for contemporary consumption. A.E. Hotchner, whose previous forays into biography have included volumes about Ernest Hemingway, Doris Day and Sophia Loren, is clearly no rock fan. He dismisses Jagger as "a ruler with no queen, no jester, no kingdom, just an egocentric bitch king with a neon scepter sitting on a hollow throne." But Hotchner does display a certain amount of commercial calculation, no doubt having sized up the sales receipts of rock butcher Albert Goldman's biographies of Elvis and John Lennon, and he comes up with his own cash-register kicker: Brian...
...crisis in the gulf becomes a shooting war, Jordan could be the first Arab country to perish. Precariously situated between the borders of Iraq, Israel and Saudi Arabia, the kingdom of 3.5 million, Jordanians fear, would be obliterated in the cross fire. King Hussein knows that if Israeli forces were drawn into the fighting, there would be little to stop them from marching into Jordan and declaring the entire country a Palestinian homeland. Such an invasion could cause so much devastation and economic chaos that the half- Palestinian, half-Bedouin country might disintegrate into warring factions...
...Saudis, angered by the King's criticism of the presence of U.S. troops in the region, have halted all oil exports to Jordan. Despite the U.N. embargo, Amman continues to get 80% of its oil from Iraq, which is credited against Baghdad's $310 million debt to Jordan at the less than market rate of $16 per bbl. But fuel purchases on the open market this year could total nearly $900 million...
That is unlikely to happen. The King's popularity is at an all-time high, primarily because he refuses to take a hard line against Saddam, whom Jordanians respect for standing up to the U.S. and Israel. Even Jordan's normally fractious trade unions have put their differences aside and pledged to take cuts in wages to support what they call Saddam's "just Arab cause." A highly placed Jordanian official warns that the longer the U.S. stays in the gulf, "the bigger hero Saddam Hussein will become." He says that despite Iraq's aggression, Jordanians feel that the preservation...