DESERT RAT.

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    • Subject Terms:
      IRAQ; JORDAN
    • Subject Terms:
      HUSSEIN, King of Jordan, 1935-1999
    • Abstract:
      Comments on Jordan's foreign policy on the Persian Gulf War. Impact of the Gulf war on Hussein's position as King of Jordan; Hussein's diplomatic relations with Israel, Egypt and other neighboring nations; Suggestion that the Gulf war would probably widen the gap between the increasingly fundamentalist Palestinians and the Westernized Jordanian elite; Political and economic conditions in Amman, Jordan; Hussein's opposing views on Iraq's attack on Kuwait, and the American-led war to take Kuwait back; Hussein's attempt to limit his own statements to carefully modulated pitches for peace.