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	Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Under this Jordan is a constitutional monarchy, albeit with more power vested in the monarch than in European counterparts such as the UK or the Netherlands.
		In 1989 he resumed parliamentary elections and gradually permitted political liberalization; in 1992 political parties were again allowed, and in 1993 Jordan held its first multi-party election since 1956 were held.
		Jordan is a small Arab country with inadequate supplies of water and other natural resources such as oil.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/j/jo/jordan.html (537 words)

	Miss Jordan \| Jordan Independent
		Melinda Morales, Miss Jordan 2006-2007, crowned this year's Miss Jordan, Sarah Will, in a ceremony during Heimatfest on Saturday.
		As part of the Miss Jordan Ambassador Program pageant, the candidates had to draw a random question from a fishbowl and answer it.
		Antique cars, motorcycles, and trucks from across the state will converge on Jordan next week as the town hosts its seventh annual Jordan Classic Car and Motorcycle Cruise and street dance.
	www.jordannews.com /taxonomy/term/111/9 (354 words)

	Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jordan signed a mutual defense pact in May 1967 with Egypt, and it participated in the June 1967 war between Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Egypt, and Iraq.
		Jordan is a Middle Eastern country, bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south and Israel and West Bank to the west.
		Jordan is classified by the World Bank as a "lower middle income country." The per capita GDP was approximately $1,817 (1,479) for 2003 and 14.5% of the economically active population, on average, was unemployed in 2003.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Jordan.htm (2464 words)

	Politics of Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on the constitution promulgated on January 8, 1952.
		King Hussein ruled Jordan from 1953 to 1999, surviving a number of challenges to his rule, drawing on the loyalty of his military, and serving as a symbol of unity and stability for both the East Bank and Palestinian communities in Jordan.
		Jordan's continuing structural economic difficulties, burgeoning population, and more open political environment led to the emergence of a variety of political parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Jordan (905 words)

	Barbara Jordan lived as pioneer and prophet
		Jordan's infrequent returns to the limelight rekindled the almost unbounded adulation that marked her time in politics and also revived talk not only of all she had done but of what might have been.
		Jordan refused pleas of fls and liberals to allow her name to be placed in nomination for vice president as a way of gaining a brief national forum for their favorite issues.
		Jordan's aim was to include Texas under the historic statute, an action denounced by many of the state's politicians, including then-Gov. Dolph Briscoe and Mark White, the secretary of state.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/01/18/jordannu.html (1873 words)

	The Barbara Jordan Page
		When Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 she became the first African-American woman to represent a previously Confederate state in Congress.
		Jordan retired from politics in 1979 after three terms in Congress and accepted a position on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
		There is no record of Jordan ever being asked about her sexual orientation, but early in her career she was warned by campaign managers to avoid being photographed with her female companion.
	www.lambda.net /~maximum/jordan.html (649 words)

	UTOPIA - Barbara Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In November of 1972, Jordan was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Eighteenth Texas District, becoming the first fl woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress.
		Jordan's remarks would be remembered as the highlight of the convention and further secure her position as a national leader as well as aiding Jimmy Carter's push to the White House.
		In 1979, after three terms in Congress, Jordan retired from politics and returned to the state she loved, accepting the Lyndon Baines Johnson Public Service Professorship at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
	utopia.utexas.edu /project/barbara_jordan/life.html (650 words)

	Project Title for WS110-80 Web Ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Barbara Jordan was born February 21, 1936, in Houston, Texas.
		Barbara Jordan won election to the Texas State Senate in 1966, thus becoming the first African American senator in the state since 1883.
		Jordan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, the nation’s highest civilian honor; she died in Austin, Texas, in 1996.
	euphrates.wpunj.edu /students/medleyj (571 words)

	The Poetry and Politics Of June Jordan
		June Jordan, a professor of African-American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, visited the Swarthmore College campus this week to read her work and to discuss Berkeley's "Poetry for the People" program that she has developed and directs.
		Jordan is also a regular columnist for "The Progressive" and is a political and social activist.
		If what you do instead is to alienate the child from his or her home language by saying whatever language youre bringing in from home is wrong, as against different, then youre alienating children from language, per se, and as you know, all our intelligence tests are geared toward language abilities.
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/phoenix/1997/1997-12-05/19.html (2165 words)

	Middle East Report Online: Don't Blink, Jordan's Democratic Opening and Closing, by Jillian Schwedler
		Jordan's stable, pro-Western regime is eager to support the US in its wide-ranging and ill-defined "war on terrorism" in exchange for increasing foreign aid.
		Some observers point to the events of September 11, 2001, as justification for Arab regimes to put political freedoms on hold while cooperating with Washington in the "war on terrorism." In Jordan's case, however, it was clear long before the attacks that the government did not intend to hold the elections on schedule.
		Political parties have rightly been frustrated with these changes to the elections law, and have argued that the reforms were made through unconstitutional procedures.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero070302.html (2266 words)

	Middle East Report Online: No Jordan Option, by Marc Lynch
		Jordan reluctantly acceded to the consensus of the 1974 Arab Summit in Rabat that declared the PLO to be the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," but the Jordanian state remained largely convinced of the legitimacy of its own rule over the lost territories and their inhabitants.
		One of the decisive arguments in the treaty's favor in Jordan was that it would finally dispel the Sharon vision that "Jordan is Palestine." (For his part, Sharon abstained from the vote on the treaty in the Israeli Knesset.) The new identity consensus in Jordan had sweeping implications for the kingdom's politics.
		Jordan played a quiet but active supporting role during the Iraq war and continues to train recruits for the Iraqi police force (though it has thus far refused to send troops to join the US-led multinational force).
	merip.org /mero/mero062104.html (2983 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Syria, Jordan snared in political rift
		AMMAN: Jordan and Syria are facing the most serious political crisis since their new leaders took over five years ago and promised to boost bilateral ties that were often strained during the era of their late fathers, according to diplomats and analysts.
		Since then, Jordan has raised the issue in many meetings of the higher committee, and in 1992, a technical demarcation agreement was concluded, but it was not politically approved, and a joint committee is now meeting to settle the dispute.
		Jordan also demands the extradition from Syria of Suleiman Khaled Darwish (Abu al-Ghadiyyah), a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, who is said by officials here to be acting as a liaison officer between Al-Qaeda, and the Syrian military intelligence.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=8909 (953 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: JORDAN, BARBARA CHARLINE
		Barbara Jordan, politician and educator, was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936, the youngest of three daughters of Benjamin and Arlyne (Patten) Jordan.
		She became involved in politics by registering fl voters for the 1960 presidential campaign, and twice ran unsuccessfully for the state Senate in the early 1960s.
		Eschewing a confrontational approach, Jordan quickly developed a reputation as a master of detail and as an effective pragmatist and gained the respect of her thirty white male colleagues.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/fjoas.html (703 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Jordan to receive UK tanks
		MPs have reacted with anger at news that the UK has given up to 400 tanks to Jordan at a time when there is a prospect of military action against its neighbour Iraq.
		"Jordan is an important ally in the region.
		King Abdullah of Jordan has insisted that a US-led war on Iraq is not inevitable - but Jordan would take steps to protect itself in the event of a conflict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2372467.stm (540 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| UN examines Jordan women's status
		The UN's goodwill ambassador in Jordan, Princess Basma Bint Talal, said while women here had achieved a great deal, much more work needed to be done to promote their participation in society and protect them from harm.
		She said that it would be better for women to seek office at local and municipal levels to gain the necessary political experience before entering national politics.
		Jordan is celebrating International Women's Day - officials said it was a good time to take stock of what has been accomplished and what work still lay ahead to enable Jordanian women to become full partners in developing their country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/3511068.stm (366 words)

	Jordan PLO Syria Black September 1970-1971
		In Jordan's internal politics, however, the main issue between 1967 and 1971 was the struggle between the government and the guerrilla organizations for political control of the country.
		The civil war caused great material destruction in Jordan, and the number of fighters killed on all sides was estimated as high as 3,500.
		On July 19, the government announced that the remainder of the bases in northern Jordan had been destroyed and that 2,300 of the 2,500 fedayeen had been arrested.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/bravo/blacksept1970.htm (1640 words)

	government and politics jordan,politics jordan,governement jordan,society jordan
		The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a Constitutional Monarchy.
		The National Assembly is constituted by the Senate with 40 members appointed by HM the king, and the House of Representatives with 80 members wich are directly elected by the people.
		Jordan's administrative divisions are divided into eight governorates or provinces.
	www.1stjordan.net /content/guide.html (279 words)

	Jordan - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jordan was also expelled from the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which resulted in further influxes of Palestinian refugees.
		In 1991 Jordan's economic situation had been further strained with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Kuwaiti refugees seeking asylum and on Dec. 30, 1991 the government passed an IMF approved austerity program.
		Also during 1993 Jordan had formulated an agreement with the PLO that would give the Central Bank of Jordan monetary responsibilities during the transitional period of Palestinian self-rule while King Hussein also continued to work to end Iraq's isolation in the Arab world.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/jordan.htm (1510 words)

	Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1922, the British divided the mandate by establishing the semi-autonomous Emirate of Transjordan, ruled by the Hashemite Prince Abdullah, while continuing the administration of Palestine under a British High Commissioner.
		In 1950, the country was renamed "the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan" to include those portions of Palestine annexed by King Abdullah.
		Jordan is a small country with limited natural resources.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Jordan (2440 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Jordan's Abdullah picks new premier and demands fresh Cabinet
		Jordan's King Abdullah II has tasked academic Adnan Badran with forming a new government to push for faster political reforms after criticism of the two-year-old Cabinet of Prime Minister Faisal al-Fayez.
		Jordan is also caught in a diplomatic row with Iraq, which accuses Amman of not doing enough to stop alleged Jordanian militants from infiltrating across the border to take part in the deadly insurgency.
		Jordan's mainstream Islamists, strident opponents of Israel and of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, have also called on the government to quit, saying it had failed to deliver greater political liberalization.
	www.buzztracker.org /2005/04/06/cache/510007.html (870 words)

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		Thirty miles from the town of Jordan where he sits, along a dirt track, eight Freemen -- outlaws on the vast, wasted plains of Montana -- prepare for the day when the sheriff and his men come.
		Now Jordan stands ready to be listed among the famous battlegrounds of the Far Right's war against the government.
		And so in Jordan, where a few years ago the federal police would have been sent in to mop up the resistance, inaction is the latest government order.
	www.cs.ncl.ac.uk /people/chris.holt/home.informal/bar/politics/jordan.montana.1995 (1076 words)

	Politics \| Jordan deal to test anti-terror powers
		Britain formally signed a deal with Jordan yesterday setting the scene for the first test between ministers and judges of the government's new anti-terrorism powers.
		Jordan guarantees that anyone deported from Britain will not face the death penalty or torture.
		It is expected that Mr Qatada would appeal against being sent back to Jordan, leaving it up to a high court judge in London to decide the human rights issue.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5259899-116499,00.html (484 words)

	Jordan - Gurupedia
		The Emirate of Transjordan was the name given to a autonomous political subdivision under British administration under the nominal auspices of the League of Nations.
		Arab states, Israel, and a large internal Palestinian population making up a majority of Jordan's citizens, through several wars and coup attempts.
		In 1989 he resumed parliamentary elections and gradually permitted political liberalization; in 1992 political parties were again allowed, and in 1993 Jordan held its first
	www.gurupedia.com /j/jo/jordan.htm (469 words)

	Jordan - free-definition
		The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, commonly called Jordan, is a country in the Middle East.
		On April 11, 1921 the British gave the name The Emirate of Transjordan to about 80% of what they had been given as the Palestine mandate.
		Under this Jordan is a constitutional monarchy, albeit with more power vested in the monarch than in European counterparts such as the United Kingdom or the Netherlands.
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /JO.html (548 words)

	Mental mayhem: Lack of politics on Jordan planet
		Jordan certainly has its own issues but they are neither presidential elections nor assassinations.
		I mean the youth is very politically aware, and involved in politics, mostly the students, but they do it at home, so there is no real lack of interest.
		Political parties in Jordan are very disorganized and very ineffective.So in essence, there isn't really that much politics to be discussed about Jordan unless the discussant wants to address the parliament, and the ministers.
	www.natashatynes.org /mental_mayhem/2005/09/lack_of_politic.html (1654 words)

	The Book Tree · Jordan Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		JORDAN MAXWELL began researching religious-political philosophy in 1959, and during the nearly 40 years that followed has uncovered many disturbing, behind-the-scenes facts on of Western religions and its impact on our body politics.
		His work into the fields of religion, politics, the Bible, the Church, secret societies (both ancient and modern), and all of their relevant symbolism have fascinated audiences across the country for years.
		Jordan Maxwell, a noted religious-political philosopher, exposes a worldwide hidden conspiracy through documented pictures of "their" symbols and emblems.
	www.thebooktree.com /jordan.html (924 words)

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