Word: amman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown, who retired last year from the Foreign Service to become director of Washington's privately run Middle East Institute, was ambassador to Amman in 1970 when Palestinian fedayeen went to war with the army of King Hussein. As the newly arrived envoy in Amman, he strapped a pearl-handled pistol to his waist, rode to the palace in an armored personnel carrier and presented his credentials to the King. Brown flew into Beirut last week unarmed and with instructions from Secretary of State Kissinger to make contact with Jumblatt and Franjieh and offer the good offices...
...suffered small losses, will get 14 Hawk antiaircraft batteries from the U.S. in 1977. It has also obtained 42 secondhand American-made F-5A jet fighters from Iran and 36 of the newest version of that plane-the F-5E-from Washington. In addition, Amman is busily improving its vintage M48 Patton tanks by installing diesel engines and more powerful guns...
Nayef Hawatmeh's Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (500 members), which has usually sided with Arafat's moderates, has recently been flirting with the rejectionists. Says a senior official in Amman, Jordan: "The P.L.O. is incapable of making a decision and is unable to effectively use the support...
Relations with Jordan's King Hussein remain icy. Expelled from that country after the "Black September" of 1970, the P.L.O. has insisted that ties with Amman can improve only if the fedayeen once again are allowed to use Jordanian territory as bases from which to strike at Israel. Hussein, who vividly remembers that the guerrillas tried to overthrow his regime, has answered with a flat...
...Hawk ground-to-air missiles. Congress first rebuffed the Administration's request for approval of the sale, but it reversed itself last week after Ford promised that the missiles would be put in fixed positions; this meant that the Hawks could only be used defensively to protect Amman and other cities, and could not be moved forward to support an armored offensive against Israel. Upset by this stipulation, Hussein briefly balked at the deal, but then finally agreed to the U.S. terms. In fact, the King's "temper tantrum," as Washington officials described it, may have stemmed less...