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extremist religious
ideologies. As a result, it is
now widely anticipated that
if the Islamic fundamen-
talists, or indeed the
Palestinian radicals, capture
a significant share of the
vote — say, 10 or 15 seats —
parliament will itself
become expendable.
Nevertheless, public en-
thusiasm for the elections is
For the elections,
political parties are
banned, public
meetings are
prohibited,
television and radio
are forbidden to
report on the
campaign, and
martial law
remains in force.
high, with more than 90 per-
cent of Jordan's 1.2 million
eligible voters having
registered to cast their
ballots.
After receiving an une-
quivocal message from the
Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip that
they did not regard him as
their representative in
negotiations with Israel,
Hussein may be about to
hear the message a lot closer
to home.
For a kingdom sandwiched
uncomfortably between two
powerful neighbors — Syria
and Iraq — and which suffers
from a chronic sense of in-
security and uncertainty,
this will be a bitter pill to
swallow.
Once again in Middle East
affairs it is the Palestinians
who hold the trump card, for
an essential element in Hus-
sein's quest for identity and
legitimacy is a clear demon-
stration that he commands
the allegiance of his Palesti-
nian population.
Now that he has relin-
quished all claims to the
West Bank, Hussein's
challenge is to persuade the
Palestinians of Jordan to
show, through their votes,
that they are Jordanians
first; that they owe their
loyalty to the Hashemite
monarch in Amman rather
than to Yassir Arafat in
Tunis.
If he is unable to meet this
challenge, his identity crisis
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W. Germany
Bonn (JTA) — The extreme
right-wing Republican Party
made new inroads Sunday in
local- elections in North
Rhine- Westphalia, West
Germany's most populous
state, much to the dismay of
those who consider the party
neo-Nazi.
The Munich-based party,
headed by former SS official
Franz Schoenhuber, did best
in the largest cities.
In Cologne, the
Republicans won 8 percent
of the popular vote, taking
seats in the city council
formerly held by the Free
Democratic Party, a member
of the federal governing co-
alition.
In Dusseldorf, the state
capital, the Republicans
scored 6 percent, which gives
them important leverage
due to the delicate balance of
power there between the
governing Christian
Democratic Union and oppo-
sition Social Democratic
Party.
Statewide, they did poorly,
winning 2.5 percent of the
votes cast. But in most of the
cities and towns they
managed to win the 5 per-
cent minimum required for
seats in local legislatures.
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Cypriot Jews
New York (JTA) — The
Cypriot Jewish community.
— with only 50 members,
one of the smallest in the
world — will be able to reno-
vate its ancient cemetery
thanks to a donation by the
World Jewish Congress.
A check for $5,000 was
presented to community
leaders by Greville Janner, a
British member of Parlia-
ment who was on an official
visit to the island nation.
It will be used to build a
wall around the old Ottoman
Jewish cemetery in the port
city of Larnaca.
Cypriot Jews have had to
bury their dead in Christian
cemeteries since 1973. The
Jewish cemetery, near the
capital, Nicosia, was made
inaccessible by the Turkish
invasion and occupation of
part of the island that year.
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