World News and Prophecy: February 1999

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  • by Darris McNeely, David Palmer, John Ross Schroeder
King Hussein was the only leader most Jordanians have ever known. He came to the throne in 1952 after the assassination in Jerusalem of his grandfather, King Abdullah. Harry Truman was the American president, the Soviet Union still existed, and no one had ever heard of the Internet. A lot has changed since then but one constant remains-there is still no lasting peace agreement among the Arab and...
  • by Darris McNeely, David Palmer, John Ross Schroeder
A report in the International Herald Tribune had this to say: "But even as Jordanians worried about their long-serving monarch, they also began turning their attention to Prince Abdullah who, after a bitter split in the royal family, was named crown prince only Monday.
  • by Robin Webber
Many people around the world are acquainted with the numerical figure of 6,000,000. If someone were to pose the hypothetical question of "what comes to mind when I say six million?" many would simply state that this was the devastating total of European Jewry exterminated during World War II under the auspices of the Third Reich. But, if someone were to ask you, "what does the figure 300,000...