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...scene of the action in Jordan, communications were shut down much of the week, and over-zealous royalist sharpshooters kept Western journalists virtually imprisoned in Amman's Jordan Intercontinental Hotel. Correspondent Roland Flamini spent eight harrowing days there before he managed to get to Beirut and report on his experience (see PRESS). Needless to say, he is happy to be out. "Winston Churchill once said that there's nothing more gratifying than being shot at without result," Flamini said later. "Personally, I find more gratification in not being shot...
...Middle East and elsewhere. Hussein was temporarily sustained as his troops routed the Syrians and inflicted heavy casualties on the commandos. Yet those very casualties only inflamed the bitterness of the commandos. To shore up his military position, the U.S. now plans to resume military assistance to Amman. Desperately trying for a measure of stability in the area, the U.S. feels that Hussein is far preferable to a radical guerrilla regime in Jordan...
SELDOM has a newly arrived diplomat presented credentials under conditions as bizarre as those that faced U.S. Ambassador L. Dean Brown in Amman last week. Brown, who had been pinned down for seven days in the beleaguered American embassy as civil war raged outside, clambered aboard a Jordanian armored personnel carrier and was whisked to Al-Hummar Palace on the fringe of the city. There, King Hussein accepted the envoy's credentials and discussed emergency U.S. assistance for Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days...
Battle in Amman. The bloodletting began two weeks ago when Hussein gave his troops permission to tackle the guerrillas once and for all. The King was in a predicament that had been aggravated for years by the same Arab leaders who last week were castigating him for brutality. It was to Jordan that the bulk of the Palestinians fled after Israel was created in 1948, and it was in Jordan's sprawling refugee camps that the guerrilla movement flourished-and began undermining the government. Other Arabs, to keep on the good side of the fedayeen, supported them and ignored...
...fortified their strongholds round the refugee camps. Countless snipers took up positions on rooftops and at windows throughout the city. Once Hussein's armored units had battled their way into the capital, the fighting turned into a street-by-street encounter. Caught in the middle of the battle, Amman's 600,000 residents endured a week of agony. Most took refuge in their cellars, but many were buried alive when artillery began to pound the city. Quickly, electricity failed and the water supply was cut off. Though city dwellers were running out of food, Majali threatened that anyone...