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...very confusion of the situations in both Cairo and Amman might also keep all sides too busy to start anything. That at least is what Jerusalem hopes. For the moment, Israel's mood is relaxed; the nation last week celebrated the harvest feast of Sukkoth. The top news on Radio Israel, with a cease-fire in effect, was not battle casualties but the early arrival of the winter rains...
...Amman, where the heaviest fighting of the war had taken place, shooting had already stopped. Under the peace plan, both guerrillas and army personnel were leaving. Joint teams of truce officials, guerrillas and Jordanian army officers ranged through the city supervising the evacuation...
Suffocating Stench. As the military left, Amman slowly revived. The city had suffered massive destruction as the army routed the guerrillas. Burned-out automobiles and tanks were dragged from the streets. With electricity still out in many areas, street-corner hawkers selling kerosene lanterns did a brisker business than did peddlers offering pictures of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Shattered water mains were mended, but there were no pumps working to carry water to the top of Amman's hills. Over whole sections of the city hung the suffocating stench of death. A mass grave dug in the Ashrafiryeh...
...Order. In a press conference at Al-Hummar Palace last week, King Hussein insisted that casualties in the twelve days of fighting had actually been light. The guerrillas claimed that 25,000 people were killed. Hussein said his army had lost 200 men, while in Amman his government put civilian casualties at 541. U.S. estimates place the dead at perhaps 2,000-a terrible toll in a country...
...heard all over the building. Friendly embassies accepted some pool copy when we could get it to them. But not until the first newsmen were evacuated from the Jordanian capital last week were we able to fulfill our assignments: to write our own stories of the battle for Amman...