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Finally, with much of his army again in ruins-and with Radio Amman broadcasting appeals for blood donors -Jordan's King Hussein called it quits. He asked the U.S. embassy in Amman for State Department help in arranging a ceasefire. Washington, which only the day before had authorized a renewal of arms shipments to Jordan, was glad to step in, and the Israelis quickly agreed to silence their guns...
With winter coming on, Jordan is almost frantically concerned about the 200,000 West Bank refugees who are crowded into makeshift tent camps throughout the country. Most of the camps have been moved from the frigid desert plateau that surrounds Amman (where the temperature at night dips as low as 15°F) to the Jordan River Valley, which is 1,000 ft. below sea level and 30° warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents...
...basic foodstuffs to supply all the camps for more than a year. However, not all the refugees live in the camps. In the chaos of their first desperate days of flight, thousands found their own shelter as best they could. Hundreds of them still sleep on the sidewalks of Amman, and hundreds of others live in vacant cellars or shallow holes gouged out of the city's rocky hillsides. "We don't know where many of them are," says Reconstruction and Development Minister Hazem Nusseibeh. "If we don't make contact soon, many of them will...
That may be something of an overstatement. In Hebron, Mayor Ja'abari's calls for negotiations have brought him a flood of threatening letters, the derision of Jordan's Amman radio and an attempt to blow up his house. But neither Ja'abari nor his colleagues give much importance to the violence of their critics. "I am not afraid," Ja'abari says. "I believe the great majority of the Palestine people want a solution, so they can live in peace. We are tired of war. We want better days for our children." All that keeps...
...Flipo are the only Western correspondents left at liberty to roam the streets as they please in search of news. An A.F.P. man reports regularly from Hanoi, and during the six-day war between the Arabs and Israelis, the agency maintained service from Cairo, Damascus and Amman from war's be ginning through the ceasefire...