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Hussein, like his people, is a figure caught between two worlds, and inside himself plays out many of the conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms...
Perhaps his strongest political asset is a highly photogenic family of four boys and a girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic Governor Robert B. (for Baumle) Meyner, 48, since he married Adlai Stevenson's distant relative by marriage, Helen Stevenson, last January. But Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner...
...nationalist extremists, and made his preparations. He journeyed down to Medina to see Saudi Arabia's King Saud, just before Saud left for his trip to the U.S. Saud, whose fear of Communist penetration of the Middle East far outweighs his old feud with Hussein's Hashemite clan, promised full though secret backing...
...banners that greeted them in Okinawa about "inhuman hellish activities of the Americans." As they boarded the plane that was to take them back to Tokyo, they were full of praise. "What the U.S. has done here is wonderful," said one. Said Takanaga Mitsui of the famed Mitsui industrial clan: "In some ways you Okinawans are better off than the Japanese." Added another Japanese Diet member: "We want the U.S. to stay in Okinawa as long as there is a Russian and Chinese threat...
...reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct art of tragedy in the novel. As the grand and grotesque Jock orders the pipe laments for his dead adversary, he cries to his brother officers the patriarchal clan key to the whole story: "I'm bashed the now. Oh, my babies, take me home...