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...bitter, blustery, cloud-darkened afternoon when the papal plane arrived at Amman. Because fog and overcast had briefly threatened to divert the flight to Beirut, Jordan's King Hussein, a first-rate pilot, went to the control tower to supervise the landing. Guns barked out a 21-gun salute as the Pope stepped out of the plane; girls from a Roman Catholic school curtsied and offered him bouquets of flowers. In his deliberate, Sandhurst English, the tiny Moslem king welcomed the Pope to Jordan and hailed him as "a great leader in the service of humanity and the service...
...Pope found no peace himself. King Hussein had tried to provide adequately for the Pope's safety, and an entire brigade of tough Arab legionnaires had been summoned to reinforce police and national guardsmen. But it soon proved not enough. On the 54-mile drive from Amman to Jerusalem, the Pope stopped on the banks of the Jordan, where Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. Photographers squirmed through the guarding cordons and jostled the Pope as he walked from his car to the river bank. Hovering over the scene, as a kind of airborne royal patrolman...
With his retinue of about 30 clerics and guards, Pope Paul will leave Italy early on Jan. 4 by a leased Alitalia DC-8, which will fly around Israel and get an escort of Jordanian Air Force fighter planes before setting down at Amman around noon. Despite the personal character of his trip, the Pope will have to accept the pomp of welcome due to a head of state: King Hussein will be on hand to greet him, and cannons will roar out a 21-gun salute...
Married. Prince Mohammed 24 younger brother of Jordan's King Hussein; and Ferial Farid Irshed, 19, daughter of a wealthy Jordanian landowner ma Moslem ceremony at Amman's Zahran Palace, in celebration of which Hussein ordered the release of 40 political prisoners...
Born. To Jordan's King Hussein, 28, and Muna al Hussein, 23, formerly Toni Gardiner, of Suffolk, England: a second child, second son; in Amman. Name: Prince Feisal, after Hussein's cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, murdered in 1958 by revolutionaries...