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...premiership last spring, privately approached Nasser to assure himself of Cairo's benevolence. Now Majali found himself thunderously denounced by "Voice of the Arabs" as "a notorious old imperialist stooge." Not yet attacking King Hussein by name, Nasser himself charged last week in a Syrian speech that "the Amman rulers have yielded themselves to American and British imperialism to work against the Arab nation...
...AMMAN, JORDAN...
WASFI ELTELL CHIEF OF NATIONAL GUIDANCE AMMAN, JORDAN...
When young King Hussein set off for his good-will tour abroad last spring, he left the prince in charge of the Council of the Throne. Day after day the royal Mercury would roar through the streets of Amman. Wherever he went, Mohammed demanded full honors; he has been known to seize bodily those who failed to applaud him and turn them over to Bedouin guards demanding that they be flogged. Once, when a limousine with diplomatic license plates was slow getting out of his way, he jumped out of his own car and began shrieking abuse at the offender...
...come to expect meals to be dashed to the floor simply because the salt is out of place. High officials know what it means when a hint is dropped that the prince would like to be invited to lunch. Upon receiving such a hint one day, the governor of Amman hastily rounded up 100 distinguished guests and prepared no fewer than 15 roast lambs, only to have Mohammed drive by at the appointed hour-on his way to a rendezvous with a maiden in the neighborhood...