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...hours, the Amman radio had readied the nation for "an announcement of happy and private news." But when Jordan's King Hussein took the microphone, his tone was suppliant and defensive. "I have all my life, my brethren, hidden my worries, my problems and cares from you," he said, "wearing a smile on my face which never knew its way into my heart." The truth was far different. "I know loneliness eating my days and nights. I feel my spirit tearing and burning in a fire of gloomy loneliness and pitiful isolation. I needed affection." Then the 25-year...
Still raging at the assassination of their Prime Minister, which they blame on Nasser's "hirelings," the Jordanian authorities at first were prepared to deal harshly with the pilot of the U.A.R. jet who swooped helplessly down to an emergency bellylanding near Amman after reconnoitering along Jordan's frontier. But the Syrian lad who climbed out of the cockpit seemed too young to be shot, too honest and helpful even to punish severely. Instead, the Jordanians decided that Lieut. Adnan Madani, 24, would make a useful propaganda weapon to embarrass Gamal Abdel Nasser. By trotting Madani...
While the Amman radio beat the drums with promises of "big news" about the case (and Cairo Radio mumbled embarrassedly), Lieut. Madani had the run of the air force base where he was detained, eating at the officers' mess and sharing a room with a Jordanian air force officer in genial camaraderie. He seemed cheerfully prepared to cooperate, and the Jordanians happily scheduled a big conference where Madani was to be put on show as a Nasser spy in the sky. But early that afternoon he excused himself from the group of officers chatting at the club, explaining that...
Once again the Middle Eastern air was filled with angry Arabrhetoric. Radio Amman cried that Damascus is "the den of all conspiracies," and Cairo's Voice of the Arabs countered that "Majali's death is not the end but the beginning. Heads of treason will fall...
Died. Hazza Majali, 44, pro-Western Premier of Jordan for the past 16 months, a tent-dwelling Bedouin chieftain's son and a Syrian University lawyer; in a bomb explosion; in Amman, Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS...