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Just Tired. Nasser's own Cairo speech marched toward its end on a more muted note. He welcomed Khrushchev's proposal for a summit meeting on the Middle East-even though in the first Russian proposal for five-power talks there was no mention of inviting any Arab country. Said Nasser: "At the same time that we maintain mobilization and carry arms, we also call for peace . . . We are tired of the cold war, we are tired of military groupings, we are tired of the division of the world into two camps . . . Indeed, we are tired...
This was about as explicit an invitation to assassination (which was Abdullah's fate in 1951) as any Arab hothead or plotter needed...
...days thereafter the Cairo and Damascus radios blared Nasser's invitation to assassination to the marketplaces of Jordan, two-thirds of whose people are Palestinian Arabs sympathetic to Nasser. Other bloodthirsty cries rent the Arab...
Cried Iraqi's Education Minister Jabir Ummar at Nasser's "Revolution Day" rally: "Brothers, having wiped disgrace from its face and cleansed its defilement by agents with pieces of their bodies in Baghdad's streets, we come to you with our new Arab Iraqi revolution." The Baghdad radio called on Jordanians to "rise up and kill Hussein." And the reply of Hussein's Amman radio was to ask Iraqis: "Why have you not avenged the innocent blood shed in Baghdad? Would you leave the honor of revenge for others? What is the use of living...
...Just Cannot Imagine." At 9:30 on the morning of the coup, a group of rebels arrived at the hotel in search of a general and three Jordanian ministers of the Arab Union. They ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets...