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...Egyptian elements from Jordan's army, schools and government offices, is convinced that only U.S. aid can save Jordan from the Nasser orbit and ultimate extinction. Last week his new Cabinet was debating whether to risk stirring up Jordan's street crowds by inviting Ambassador Richards to Amman...
...moment of decision came on a Saturday night at Zerka, a town and army camp northeast of Amman. From the outside, the outbreak of fighting among Jordan's troops seemed a nationalist-inspired mutiny. In actual fact, the young King had carefully planned it. For months Hussein had been aware of the dangers of being swept away by Arab nationalist extremists, and made his preparations. He journeyed down to Medina to see Saudi Arabia's King Saud, just before Saud left for his trip to the U.S. Saud, whose fear of Communist penetration of the Middle East...
...proCommunists' control of the street mobs, he approached leaders of the fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment was stationed there and the Moslem Brotherhood was strong in the town...
...AMMAN, Jordan, April 26--King Hussein placed Jordan under a military governor today and launched a determined war against the Communists in his kingdom...
...AMMAN, Jordan, April 23--This sorely beset kingdom was plunged today into its second political crisis in two weeks. An ugly turn of events threatened. Premier Hussein Khalidi at a stormy conference fought off demands of all political parties that he and his Cabinet resign...