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Scarcely had Bourguiba opened his mouth when Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser-bent, as ever, on bolstering his claim to leadership of the Arab world -stepped in and offered Tunisia a shipload of guns. So did Communist Czechoslovakia. (The Western guess was that the arms offered by Nasser would come from Czechoslovakia, too.) Bourguiba accepted the Egyptian offer, but continued to make it clear that he would rather be supplied by the West. Bourguiba is one of the West's staunchest friends in the Arab world. To the U.S. State Department the alternatives seemed clear: either...
Last week the British moved on the diplomatic front to secure the two pivots of the new command. Into London, with a jeweled dagger in his belt, flew Seif el Islam Mohammed el Badr, 28-year-old Crown Prince of Yemen, the feudal Arab kingdom that borders on the Aden protectorate. With his aged father ailing, the bearded young prince now rules the country. Last year he negotiated in Moscow for shipments of Soviet arms, but recently has shown signs of nervousness over Soviet penetration. The British hoped to persuade him to help restore peace on the Aden-Yemen border...
...Damascus, thousands of Palestine Arab refugees snaked through the streets chanting: "Let Hussein die like the dog his grandfather!" (King Abdullah, who was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab in 1951). Radio Moscow gleefully joined Nasser's chorus, described Hussein as "a friend of the bitterest enemies of the Arab world-the U.S., Britain and Turkey." The Cairo attacks were so patently absurd that Amman newspapers began publishing excerpts: "Jordanian Army Refuses Open Fire on Refugees" and "Demonstrations Being Staged Everywhere in Jordan." There were no demonstrations, as every refugee could plainly...
...hastily called press conference, Hussein dropped all pretense of Arab brotherhood, declared flatly: "There is no doubt Egypt and Syria are just instruments of international Communism." Ten months ago Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia agreed to pay Jordan $35 million a year to replace the subsidy once supplied by Britain, but only Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its promise. "The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on," said Hussein. Next day he took off for the desert to celebrate his 22nd birthday with a picnic and duck shoot...
Egyptian authorities refused to let a Jordan airliner land in Cairo with its 20 passengers, including a seven-man Jordan delegation to an Arab educational conference, a Jordanian airline spokesman charged in Amman...