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...scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms. He has the flashing eyes and the bearing of a highly bred Arab prince; his manners and speech are those of a young Englishman...
Hussein, born in 1935 in dusty Amman, became the King's favorite grandson, receiving a royal schooling in horsemanship and saber fighting, and accompanying the old monarch all over his desert realm. "My boy," said Abdullah. "I want you to come always to me and try to learn what you can from what you witness at my palace. Who knows? The time may come when you will replace me on the throne...
...Czech tanks in Jordan against the King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also phoned King Saud. urging him to press Egypt and Syria to abate their inflammatory broadcasts about events in Jordan. That evening the Palestinians were told that...
King of the Streets. Communists and pro-Nasser extremists passed the word to start a nationwide strike against the regime. But long before dawn broke Wednesday, Hussein had sent loyal Bedouin troops with tanks into all the Palestinian strongkolds. Amman itself swarmed with blackened Bedouins in tanks and armored cars. Out came the demonstrators, mostly teen-age schoolboys, their teachers hustling them along like anxious sheep dogs. In the post-office square (which Americans nicknamed Riot Plaza), crowds began rhythmically clapping hands and chanting: "Down with the Eisenhower Plan!" and "Long Live Nasser!" The marchers threw stones at the police...
...Bedouins swarmed over Amman, with faces blackened by charcoal as a sign they meant business, Hussein began warily to consolidate his opening triumph. There were, after all, other armies in Jordan. He invited Abu Nuwar to take a fortnight's leave in Syria, and kept on former Premier Nabulsi (known as "the ten-faced man") as Foreign Minister in a new Cabinet. King Hussein carefully proclaimed that Jordan would stick to its policy of "positive neutrality" and reject "imperialism" and foreign alliances. Then he talked Major General Ali Hayari, who comes from Abu Nuwar's home village...