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Several hundred miles to the southeast, the British began evacuating Jordan. After embarking six shiploads of troops at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba, the British started a final airlift of 2,000 men to Cyprus. To do so, they had to overfly Nasser's Syria. But with Nasser's consent, Norway's General Odd Bull posted U.N. supervisory teams at Syrian airport control towers for the estimated five days the airlift would take...
Murphy has been on hand wherever and whenever the flames of world controversy burned hottest: in Munich during Hitler's brawling beer-hall days, in North Africa patiently maneuvering to deliver Vichy France's colonies to the World War II Allies, in Berlin during the airlift, in Trieste and at Panmunjom, in London during the Suez crisis. To Tunisians he is "Monsieur Bans Offices," to austere Britons he is "Breezy Bob," and to Pravda he is "Warmonger Murphy." To friends and enemies alike, he is perhaps the world's fastest-moving, most highly skilled diplomatic fireman...
...first of August the Israeli ambassador in Moscow transmitted to Jerusalem a threatening note he had been handed by the Soviet government. The next day Washington learned that Israel was about to ban the overflights of U.S. and British planes across Israeli territory, thereby cutting off the vital airlift of oil and supplies, one of the few trickles of aid that is reaching beleaguered Jordan...
...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...
...Airlift to Amman. From nearby Cyprus, British transport planes airlifted 2,000 red-bereted troops of Britain's 16th parachute brigade, the "Red Devils," with 50 jets from the U.S. Sixth Fleet flying cover. Both Hussein and his people, who are as Arab as Nasser, appeared embarrassed to have the British "colonials" back: the Red Devils were confined behind barbed wire at the Amman airport. But not only was Hussein's throne shaking; the economy of Jordan was near collapse. Jordan's oil supplies were snapped off when the rebels seized Iraq, and queues lined Amman...