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...sites mentioned in the Bible. Many of the tourists are destined for Jerusalem. "We consider Amman the proper gateway to Jerusalem," says Ghandour, 42, who was educated in aeronautical engineering at New York University and gained practical experience as a mechanic with American Airlines. So Royal Jordanian, also called Alia after King Hussein's eldest daughter, is offering Westerners a chance to go to the Middle East via Amman and see both the Arab and Israeli worlds at essentially the same price as a tour to Jerusalem by way of Tel Aviv on one of the Western airlines...
...stop at the border for passport and baggage check, and a second bus trip to Jerusalem. The airline offers each tour customer a free excursion flight to the seaside resort of Aqaba in Jordan to offset the inconvenience. Right now, Americans must first fly to Europe and take Alia from a major European city, but the Jordanian line will soon apply to the Civil Aeronautics Board for a weekly flight from New York's Kennedy Airport...
Hussein, who was accompanied to the U.S. by his lissome new wife Alia, sought to draw Nixon's attention to a recent mood of conciliation among Arabs, who for the moment feel that they cannot defeat Israel militarily. Before leaving Amman, the King patched up his long-running quarrel with Egypt and Syria over the status of the Palestinian fedayeen in Jordan, at a meeting of the Arab League Defense Council. As long as the fedayeen are kept in check, Hussein would agree to the re-establishment of the Eastern Front, a largely meaningless unification of Arab armies under...
Married. King Hussein, 37, indestructible ruler of Jordan; and Alia Toukan, 24, honey blonde airline hostess and a Jordanian diplomat's daughter whom Hussein met in October; he for the third time, she for the first; in Amman, less than a week after the King's divorce from wife...
...Radio Amman's announcement was to give credence to rumors that Hussein was thinking of divorcing his second wife Muna, 31, the daughter of a British army officer. So far the Toukan family, one of the country's most distinguished, has said nothing about the rumors; Alia, an attractive blonde, was reportedly off on a shopping expedition to Paris with her mother. Some friends of the King were not enthusiastic about the possibility of another royal marriage just now. But then, they noted philosophically, when it comes to women, the King always keeps his own counsel...