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...with Legionnaires armed with Tommy guns. As the King stood at attention watching a parade of red-bereted paratroops, a bomb went off in the city behind him-the seventh in a week. Hussein took a flight in his personal Beechcraft with his onetime flying instructor, Wing Commander Jock Dalgleish, now back in Jordan as R.A.F. commander of the British airlift. As King Hussein brought his Beechcraft down for a perfect landing, one veteran British officer said companionably to another: "Just like old times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Man on a Precipice | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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