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...dusty streets of the Jordanian capital of Amman, men, camels and motors jostled one another. On the sidewalk, scribes at low desks wrote out petitions for illiterate Bedouins bound for the Prime Minister's weekly audience for the public. Then, at midmorning, an explosion . rained debris on the terrified town...
...named his personal Cabinet chief, Bahjat Talhuni, 49, as the new Premier and went on the air to tell his people that Majali and the other dead were "victims of aggression and stabbing in the back." That afternoon crowds applauded and cheered the young King as he rode through Amman. "I have lost an elder brother," he said of Majali-and wept...
...Vacation. The outrage in Amman brought a quick end to the brief truce that had been established between Hus sein and Nasser a week earlier at an Arab League meeting in Lebanon. Jordan police arrested an Amman bookshop owner named Salah el Saffadi, who was said to have confessed that the explosives used to murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected...
Jordan's foremost exponent of speed, dashing young King Hussein, 24, will try any means of locomotion once. Last week, on an airfield near his capital of Amman, Hussein-looking a little bit like a young Thomas E. Dewey-climbed into one of the latest species of automobiles, a "go kart," a low-center-of-gravity vehicle that can hit speeds of up to 85 m.p.h. Driving the little racer, which affords drivers an illusion of Grand Prix speeds, brought a grin to Hussein, who normally makes time in road-burning sports cars or jets...
Jordan's Crown Prince Mohammed, 20, madcap brother of worldly and fairly wise King Hussein, who is four years older tooled through the crowded streets of Amman with his aide in his car and bowled over a hapless pedestrian. A hostile mob converged on Mohammed's royal presence. Somebody in the car started shooting, killed at least one, winged several others. Mohammed, in a bad version of a Middle Eastern western, then fled to his brother's palace. Hussein, brought close to the ignition point by his brother's antics, rushed off to condole the bereaved...