All quiet on the eastern front
King Abdullah’s troubles in keeping things jogging along
IT IS bad enough living next to Saddam Hussein, Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat. But rowdy neighbours are not the only bother facing Abdullah, the 39-year-old monarch who has run this tidy little country since the death of his father, Hussein, two years ago. He must also juggle with a sagging economy, a divided population and the contradictory demands of powerful friends in the West.
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