Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summoned ambassadors from other Arab states and told them: "Will you kindly inform your governments that King Hussein, with mature consideration, has drawn up a detailed plan which is bound to end in a blood bath? I possess irrefutable proof that he intends to liquidate the Palestinian resistance." In Amman, Damascus and Baghdad, guerrilla radios suddenly began crackling with curiously coded messages. "The dinner is hot," said one. "Ghazi is marching to Haifa," said another. In plainer language, the fedayeen command advised its men to "keep your finger on the trigger until the fascist military rule has been removed...
...Anxious to thwart any rescue attempts, the Popular Front split them up into groups of four or five and scattered them to different hiding places. Before the fighting broke out, most were believed to be in a sprawling Palestinian refugee center on the southern rim of the capital, called Amman New Camp. At the same camp the guerrillas are believed to be holding $650,000 in U.S. bills that Swissair last week admitted had been aboard its skyjacked plane. When the guerrillas found out about the money by reading the craft's loading sheet, they marched the plane's captain...
...Marines' assignment, if events warranted, was to helicopter ashore in Jordan to rescue the 40 members of the U.S. embassy in Amman and any of 350 U.S. citizens living in Jordan, or other foreigners who cared to leave. There was also the possibility, albeit a remote one, of liberating some of the 54 airline hostages. Washington Special Action Group, a crisis committee of State, Defense and intelligence chiefs headed by Henry Kissinger, met twice to draw up contingency plans...
...battle developed. Hussein appeared to be faring well without help from the outside?though a helicopter stood by at Al-Hummar Palace just in case, ready to lift him to exile (probably in Iran). At 4:05 on a quiet morning in Amman, barely 24 hours after martial law was imposed, an artillery round shattered the predawn quiet. It was the tocsin for a barrage of fire from both sides, mostly in the dark at shapeless targets...
...murdered in his Baghdad palace by a clique of revolutionary army officers whose political passions had been aroused by the antiroyalist call of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hussein, only 22, narrowly escaped a similar death; his life and throne were saved by the intervention of British paratroopers. In Amman, the boy King took the train of events heavily. "I have received confirmation of the murder of my cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, and all his royal family," he told reporters. "They are only the last in a caravan of martyrs...