Word: aqaba
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...extinguished the fedayeen presence in the Jerash woods of northern Jordan, so upset Damascus that Syria closed her border with Jordan. The decision disrupted the usual heavy road traffic between Amman and Beirut and forced Jordan to route its phosphate exports and all imports through its only port at Aqaba...
Hussein is also free to indulge in old pastimes. The King, an accomplished pilot, recently tried out the controls of the first Boeing 707 jet acquired by Royal Jordanian Airlines. He water-skis at Aqaba, tools around on a shiny motorcycle, and sends Princess Muna off every few months to refurbish her wardrobe in Paris and London. With the fedayeen defanged, he is preoccupied with international rather than domestic problems, most notably the Arab-Israeli conflict. In recent months, the world's attention has focused on efforts to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli accommodation over the Suez Canal. Such...
...took "full responsibility." It was the Front, a Marxist Arab guerrilla group, that held 357 hostages at various times in Jordan last year and blew up four skyjacked jetliners. Its spokesmen in Beirut insisted that the speedboat had traveled a full 1,300 miles from the Jordanian port of Aqaba to carry out the attack, but this seems highly unlikely. More probably, the boat sailed from islands around Bab el Mandeb controlled by the radical government of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (which was Southern Yemen until a name change six months ago), or was carried...
Located at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and commanding the passage to the Gulf of Aqaba, Sharm el Sheikh is sand-blown, sunbaked and heavy with symbolism and strategic significance. It played a major part in the events leading to the Six-Day War. At that time, Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened that Egyptian artillery at Sharm el Sheikh would sink any ship that ventured into the narrow Straits of Tiran en route to the Israeli port of Eilat, 130 miles to the north, which handles all of Israel's oil imports. Soon afterward, Israeli paratroopers and amphibious forces...
...after the arduous trek to Aqaba and its swift conquest, the film's Lawrence loses heart in the desert campaign. He sees himself as unfit for military command-not out of military considerations, but because of his failure to live up to his own personal vision. He is part Arab and part English, and only a superman would be able to bridge that cultural gap. Lawrence, with a fear of bloodshed which does not control his erratic sadism, and a masochism which is brought to the surface when he is tortured at the hands of a homosexual Turkish...