The World - News from April 28, 1989

King Hussein of Jordan swore in his former army commander as head of an interim government and said that elections will be held soon to replace the Cabinet that was forced to resign during nationwide rioting over prices. The temporary government leader, Field Marshal Sharif Zayed Shaker, is a longtime adviser to the king. State-run Jordan TV said that Hussein issued 19 directives to the new government, including calls for freedom of the press, support for the PLO and the stamping out of corruption. The government “will be a temporary one” charged with “overseeing the general elections that will take place very soon,” Hussein was quoted by a Kuwaiti newspaper as saying.