TRIBUTE TO A KING

From: ABC Special Report | Date: February 8, 1999| Author: GILLIAN FINDLAY, JIM WOOTEN, SHEILA MACVICAR, PETER JENNINGS | Copyright information


ABC Special Report

02-08-1999

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ANNOUNCER: This is an ABC News Special Report -- a "Tribute To A King." Now reporting, Peter Jennings.

PETER JENNINGS: That's the Jordanian capital Amman. It has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 or 20 years, had as much building in it as anywhere else in the region. And so even those of us who have spent a good deal of time th...

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