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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 51
World Notes
JORDAN
Revolt in The Desert
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<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.
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