Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great drama, of course, was played out on the dusty plain northeast of Amman, and that was where Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott spent much of the week. Scott made several visits to Dawson's Field, the desert flat that the hijackers were using as their "revolution airstrip." "It was a fantastic sight to see the three jets shimmering against a backdrop of endless sand," he reported. The Palestinian commandos themselves were in a state of near hysteria. "There was chaos on our arrival. Our photographer was relieved of his film by a Jeep-load of grisly characters bristling...
...times it seemed as if the hotel might go the way of the jets on Dawson's Field. But it was still standing at week's end, when the last hostages to be released arrived in Amman and began telling Scott and other newsmen the tales of their long confinement under commando guns and the searing...
...Jordanian king badly needs a diplomatic success to save his throne. Last week he survived yet another assassination attempt, the second against him in the past three months. According to a palace report, he was riding in a convoy of seven Land Rovers on his way to Amman airport to meet Daughter Alia, 14, when the attackers struck from ambush. Hussein was uninjured, but the Jordanian army responded to the attack by shelling guerrilla camps around Amman. Fedayeen leaders complained that Hussein had staged the incident as a pretext for attacking them, but foreign diplomats accepted the palace...
...meeting of the main Arab combatants in Tripoli was boycotted by Iraq and Algeria and criticized by Arab commandos. Nasser, clearly stung by recent demonstrations against him in Baghdad, took an angry swipe at Iraqi military performance, asking sarcastically: "Why has the enemy not been attacking your forces?" In Amman, pro-Nasser and anti-Nasser guerrillas clashed twice, killing at least two of their number and taking rival prisoners. As the splits in Arab unity grew deeper each day, Beirut Columnist Adel Malek declared: "What is really needed now is a cease-fire among the Arabs...
...ways of living together of their own accord, and can do so if kept in touch by a determined go-between. In that role Jarring performs heroically: while headquartered on Cyprus during the 1967-68 talks, he made at least 22 trips to Jerusalem, 15 to Cairo, 14 to Amman and four each to Beirut and New York...