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...meeting of the main Arab combatants in Tripoli was boycotted by Iraq and Algeria and criticized by Arab commandos. Nasser, clearly stung by recent demonstrations against him in Baghdad, took an angry swipe at Iraqi military performance, asking sarcastically: "Why has the enemy not been attacking your forces?" In Amman, pro-Nasser and anti-Nasser guerrillas clashed twice, killing at least two of their number and taking rival prisoners. As the splits in Arab unity grew deeper each day, Beirut Columnist Adel Malek declared: "What is really needed now is a cease-fire among the Arabs...
...President Nasser and the other Arab nations in giving diplomacy a try. The Palestine guerrilla movement, accustomed to warring with Lebanon and Jordan over its freedom to make rocket and hit-and-run attacks on Israel, suddenly found itself at odds with Patron Nasser as well. In Amman, 3,000 guerrillas marched through the streets waving guns and shouting "Nasser, Traitor!" For all sides, the possibility, however remote, of abandoning conflict as a way of life seemed as unsettling as shedding a painful but familiar neurosis, though, of course, for Israel the fears for its security are genuine enough...
Nasser by name for the first time, was followed by a larger demonstration in Amman: 25,000 people joined a protest march under the aegis of Yasser Arafat's Al-Fatah guerrilla group. Arafat spoke to his followers at the close of the march and promised them that "the revolution will take orders from no one." He did not, however, make any mention of Nasser. In Baghdad, meanwhile, Iraqi marchers carried posters reading "DOWN WITH ABDEL NASSER...
Arafat's price for propping up the King was the dismissal of Hussein's uncle, Major General Sherif Nasser Ben Jamil, as commander in chief of the Jordanian army, and his cousin, Brigadier General Sherif Zeid Ben Shaker, as head of the 3rd Armored Division, which guards Amman and is anti-fedayeen. Hussein acceded to the demands, but he has so far not given in to an ultimatum that the two men must leave the country. At his press conference, the King professed his loyalty to both. As long as they remain in Amman, the threat...
...from Israel or suffer economically: P.F.L.P. guerrillas have already hijacked a TWA jetliner to Damascus and blown up the Tapline through which U.S. oil companies move Saudi Arabian oil to the Mediterranean. Most significant, it was Habash's guerrillas who provoked the recent battles with the army in Amman and who took the American hostages...