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Nasser's spectacular display overshadowed the steady progress of the rival Arab Federation. In Baghdad the Iraqi Parliament decorously voted unanimous approval. In Amman, as King Hussein watched from a gallery, Jordan's legislators shouted their assent the next...
Early last week Feisal arrived in Amman with a planeload of aides. The negotiators deadlocked in shouting dissension over Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact. Hussein's men said their Palestinians would riot rather than be party to a pact that Nasser's propaganda labels a symbol of Western imperialism, and that Saud would never join them unless Iraq pulled out of the pact...
...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...
...army, one foreign policy, one foreign service. Both nations will keep their own legislatures. A combined federal legislature will be set up to deal with federal policies, in which Jordan and Iraq will have equal representation. It will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that it is not too late for King Saud to line up with his fellow sovereigns. At week's end Amman...
...Amman, the Jordan capital, a government spokesman said the next convoy would pass through Mandelbaum Gate into Jordan territory tomorrow and would be searched by Jordan military authorities...