Baghdad Offers to Pay Men to Marry Widows
<i> Associated Press</i>
AMMAN, Jordan —
Iraq will give men who marry widows $940 and lend them $1,250, Iraqi newspapers reaching Jordan on Sunday said.
The state-run newspapers did not elaborate on the decision by the ruling Revolutionary Command Council.
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