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...mind nearly as much as, say, Nasser's) they may have reasoned that the Palestine refugees, who constitute nearly half the population, are so afraid of "International Zionism" that it would be difficult to protect U.S. Jews from their outbursts. I remember telling a Palestinian friend now in Amman that Jordan might persuade some Americans to modify their anti-Arab views by not refusing visas to Jews who want to enter Jordan, especially since the Wailing Wall is in the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem. He became visibly upset and declared in no uncertain terms that he was sure...
...anti-Western mobs in Amman menaced the U.S. embassy; other mobs bombed and burned USIS buildings. But last week, as scholarly looking Ambassador William B. Macomber Jr., 40, motored along the Jordan valley, the crowds applauded. Macomber was on his way to opening ceremonies of the new East Ghor Canal, a U.S.-backed project that will bring badly needed irrigation waters from a River Jordan tributary, the Yarmuk, to the parched Jordan valley. Direct beneficiaries will be 3,800 needy farmers and their families...
...members of rubber-stamp Parliament; among candidates are such loyal King's men as Amman Ford dealer, Shehab Itwal...
...contemptuously refers to the U.N. as "ce machin" (thingumbob), was making it clear to its Secretary-General that he should keep his nose out of what France considers its own affairs. After all, Paris pointed out, the Tunisians fired the first shot. When Hammarskjold tried to see Admiral Maurice Amman, the French commander in Bizerte, he was curtly told that no interview was possible. Hammarskjold sent a message to De Gaulle proposing a private meeting in Paris. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman replied with a piece of calculated insolence such as only the French can manage: "The Secretary-General...
Married. King Hussein of Jordan, 25, and Toni Avril Gardiner, 20; he for the second time, she for the first; in Amman, Jordan (see THE WORLD...