Word: supportable
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...sensitive is the Middle East's political seismograph that even as Arab leaders tried to contain the fighting in Jordan, the ripples created by the civil war continued to widen. The radical Baathist governments of Iraq and Syria gave unqualified vocal support to the guerrillas, defying Egypt's suggestion that they stay out of the dispute. "We will not spare one drop of blood to help," said Syrian President Noureddine Atassi. The U.S. and Israel hinted that they might intervene if the regimes in Baghdad and Damascus sent regular troops to reinforce the guerrillas. But at week's end Amman...
...Jewish terrorists against the British in the pre-independence days of the mandate, Al-Fatah in 1964 launched its first raid?on a small Israeli pumping station. After that, Arafat's growing group carried out a raid a week to gain experience and with each raid slowly won more support. The Six-Day War in 1967, a debacle for Arab governments, was a boon for the guerrillas. It provided them with thousands of weapons discarded by fleeing Arab soldiers; a grim race went on to see how much of the ordnance the guerrillas could grab before Israeli salvage squads reached...
...withdrawal of Nasser's support will not wither the fedayeen. Despite differences and setbacks, the guerrillas will continue as a potent force in the Middle East?an intruding hand capable of ruining any settlement. Ultimately, as even Hussein knows, the only way to defuse this threat is not by force of arms but by fulfilling the fundamental fedayeen demand for a Palestinian homeland...
That Hashemite caravan has been a long and winding one. The principal reason for the fanatic support that Hussein received from Bedouin warriors in Jordan is that the King can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Mohammed. Thirty-seven generations of Hashemites were traditionally Grand Sherifs, or rulers of Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish...
Some of Lon Nol's aides would prefer that the U.S. maintain ground forces in Cambodia to support the country's army, which has grown from 35,000 to 140,000 since last March. Asked if he would welcome the return of U.S. ground troops, Lon Nol replied, "No, not yet-not as long as the war is going no worse than it is." So far, he sees no indication that the enemy has started to rebuild the sanctuaries along the South Viet Nam border. In the event of another buildup, he hopes U.S. troops will return...