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...back room of a stucco house in the hills of Amman, a grave young Palestinian university student squatted on the floor and told eleven friends that he had just joined a guerrilla unit to fight the Israelis. "Any age, any size, either sex," he said. "It makes no difference. They are on my land, and I shall kill them." In his shell shattered villa overlooking the River Jordan, Citrus Grower Raouf Halabi, 50, a graduate of Beirut's American University, reported proudly that his riverfront groves have become a nightly jumping-off place for raiding parties into Israel...
...population that is 60% Palestinian, 100% Arab-and sick to death of being humbled by Israeli planes and tanks-the fedayeen already have become national folk heroes. Accounts of their successful sabotage missions are headlined in the press. Photographs portraying their martyred dead are plastered all over Amman...
...know that our Jordanian Arab army sustained very minor losses during the serious outbreak of fighting with Israel [Feb. 23]. Our losses were mostly among civilians-victims of Israeli bombardment. It also seems that you are not aware of the statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Amman-that neither the ambassador nor the embassy had received a request from any Jordanian quarter to help arrange a ceasefire and that the embassy denies all knowledge of any such request...
Private Secretary to His Majesty King Hussein Chief of Royal Protocol Amman...
...cease-fire and that it applied to both Israel and Jordan." The Arab terrorist organizations, which have been responsible for starting most of the trouble, announced from the safety of Damascus that they would continue their raids, but King Hussein got the Israeli message. In a broadcast over Radio Amman, he promised to try to keep the terrorists from using Jordan as a base. "As of today," he said, "I shall not allow anyone to supply the enemy with pretexts and justifications for aggression." Whether he could make his promise stick was another question...