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...elaborately publicized succession, President Eisenhower proclaimed U.S. "anxiety" over the Syrian situation, U.S. fleet units churned up a show of force in Eastern Mediterranean waters, and U.S. Air Force C124 Globemasters wheeled over Amman in a display delivery of U.S. 106-mm. antitank rifles to Jordan's army. Instead of persuading other Arab countries that the Arab nationalists of Syria were a threat to them, the U.S. display offended them and drove Syria's neighbors to proclaim their solidarity with their Arab brothers. Within 24 hours every U.S. ally in the Arab world had rallied to Syria...
...other hand, was determined to dramatize its concern over Syria. The U.S. embassy in Amman put on a big propaganda campaign about the airlift of U.S. arms to Jordan. This may have reassured some, but it led other Arabs to conclude that the big powers were shifting their cold war to the Middle East and developing a tit-for-tat buildup that was bound to lead to a dramatic showdown...
Electronic Conspiracy. Worst of all. his old ally. King Saud. whose money used to fuel Nasser's shrill pan-Arabism. spent all week conferring warmly with Jordan's young King Hussein in Amman. Only eight months ago, Hussein joined Syria and Saudi Arabia in putting their armies under the joint command of an Egyptian general. By last week the joint command had collapsed. Almost the first thing Saud asked on his arrival was what Hussein was doing about removing Egyptian-backed subversives. Hussein responded by demanding the recall of the Egyptian military attaché in Amman, Lieut. Colonel...
...hours the broken body of Mohammed Said Kanibi, clad in copper-red execution clothes and draped with a huge sign proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been...
...praising Arab "unity"), than Saud got on the phone again to invite Hussein to Riyadh. Hussein hustled down by air last week, and King Saud gave him a big pep talk on the importance of keeping up the good fight against Communists and extremists. He sent him back to Amman with a large gift of money (according to one source...