Word: amman
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Hussein has already withstood considerably more than mere words. Last September, when the guerrillas were openly defying Hussein, the King's army ran them out of Amman in a fierce battle. Ever since, he and Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tal have been planning a final showdown with the guerrillas, holed up at bases near 'Ajlun and Jerash in the hills of northwest Jordan...
...week the guerrillas had been largely silent since they were badly mauled last September by the Jordanian army. King Hussein seems determined to prove that he has the once-ungovernable commandos completely under control; last week his government hanged a guerrilla for committing sabotage at a phosphate plant outside Amman. Plagued by disunity and close to despair, the fedayeen might have launched last week's attacks, as Beirut's Daily Star observed, to prove that they "may be down but they...
JUST a year ago, Jordan's limestone capital of Amman was convulsed by civil strife, and King Hussein's Hashemite throne never looked shakier. In three days of bitter street fighting between Hussein's army and the Palestinian guerrillas, 250 people died. The King himself was nearly assassinated in a fedayeen ambush. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until...
Since the September war, Hussein has been the unquestioned ruler of his troubled realm. Where the fedayeen once swaggered through Amman's streets in tiger suits, now they are rarely seen; 3,000 of them huddle around Jerash in northern Jordan, well under the army's control...
...Rogers follows up meetings in London, Paris and Ankara with a five-nation Middle East circuit this week, the U.S. hopes to make the most of his Cairo visit for peacemaking purposes. Rogers is paying ceremonial calls on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, and will make a brief halt in Amman principally to bolster Jordan's King Hussein...