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...prayed.'' Those two were saved, but when the flood subsided three hours later, the muddy floor of the gorge was littered with sodden, battered bodies-Abbé Steinmann, two Arabs (a guide and a driver), and 21 Frenchwomen. Petra police flashed word of the disaster to Amman and, dropping everything, King Hussein flew his helicopter to the Siq gorge and personally directed operations. The two survivors were rushed to comfortable quarters in Hussein's Basman Palace. The 22 others, who never quite reached the rose-red tombs of Petra, were embalmed for air shipment and burial...
Even one of Nasser's enemies in the Arab world-the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan-showed signs last week of being discreetly available. In his stone Basman Palace in Amman, guarded by Circassian troopers in astrakhan hats, Jordan's King Hussein deftly shifted Prime Ministers. Out went muscular Wasfi Tal, 43, an efficient but Nasser-hating administrator. In came Jordan's "man of crises,'' five-time Prime Minister Samir Rifai, 62, who has been campaigning in recent months for more democracy inside Jordan and an end to antagonism against Nasser...
...measures," was doing much complaining. As for the Arab world, Lebanon's independent daily Al Hayat said approvingly that the "U.S. policy in the Middle East is to encourage stability, and American standing in this area is now very strong. Today America is listened to in Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Riyadh and San'a-everywhere. We hope the American efforts will be continued and their main goal reached: an end to the bloodshed in Yemen. Once this is achieved, a general peace may be possible...
...when no fewer than 40 candidates, all the King's men, ran unopposed. This time there were two or three candidates contesting nearly every seat; voters were impressed enough with Jordan's economic progress to give the King a solid bloc of 40 pro-government Deputies in Amman's 60-seat lower house...
...Hussein is refreshingly unlike a King. With his blue-eyed British wife Toni, renamed after their marriage Muna al Hussein (Desired of Hussein), and blue-eyed, eleven-month-old Crown Prince Abdullah, he relishes domestic life in a modern, eight-room villa called Daret Alkair (House of Happiness) outside Amman. He loves speed, races his Aston Martin and Ferrari autos at 100 m.p.h., recently landed a Boeing 720 jet at Amman Airport. He Go-Karts so often with Muna that one diplomat became expert at the sport just to keep in touch with them...