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Chaos confronted him. His rabble-rousing Arab Nationalist Premier Suleiman Nabulsi had been openly negotiating federation with Syria-which would mean the end of Jordan's independence. The Saudis in the south and the Syrians in the north had used the Middle East crisis to send in troops; the Iraqis were poised, ready to intervene, in the northeast; the Israelis eyed that part of the kingdom lying west of the River Jordan...
...deal by which three Arab nations -Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia-undertook to replace Jordan's $36 million-a-year British subsidy was proving largely a desert mirage. Syria's first remittance turned out to be not a check but a cheeky receipt-for "services" provided Jordan by Syrian army units stationed in Jordan since last fall's Suez invasion. Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower plan aid, the young King publicly denounced Communist influence in the country and set out to purge...
...Zerka, a post northeast of Amman; three pro-Abu Nuwar officers were reported killed, ten wounded, ten captured. At this point, King Hussein moved to take over the government himself. He summoned his onetime friend, Abu Nuwar, to the palace. Then, as tanks and armored cars of the former Arab Legion rattled through the streets and ringed the palace, the young general was arrested and packed off by car for Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest. The palace announced that a "vile attempt" to take over the army had been frustrated, and Major...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 16--Jordan's new government, which is expected to turn this Middle Eastern kingdom aside from its drift toward the Arab pro-Soviet camp, appeared to be in solid control today. Tough Bedouin troops and security police, who supported 21-year-old King Hussein when he placed his crown on the line at the height of Jordan's six-day political crisis, maintained strict order...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 15--Young King Hussein, backed by tough Bedouin fighters of the Arab Legion, won today in his struggle to give Jordan a moderate government purged of Communists and extremists...