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...torn Jordan, TIME Correspondents Roland Flamini and Gavin Scott carefully worked out a plan to assist each other and speed delivery of their dispatches to New York. They shook hands in Amman, the capital, and Scott flew off to Beirut with his notes while Flamini continued to cover the fighting between Jordanian troops and guerrilla insurgents. The two correspondents' plan called for Scott to return as soon as possible so that Flamini could leave and file his reports. Uncertain transmission facilities in Jordan made the awkward hand-carrying procedure essential...
...last one permitted to leave Jordan. Flamini could not get out, and Scott could not get back in. "Our little game of hopscotch didn't work," Scott lamented in Beirut. "We haven't heard from Roland since." Presumably, Flamini was trapped with other newsmen at Amman's besieged Inter-Continental Hotel...
...reporting-mobility. And in the case of the Jordanian fighting, telephone and telex circuits were cut within minutes of the first shot, leaving reporters dependent upon a single Morse code connection to Beirut. Soon they did not even have that. A power failure cut off electricity to all of Amman, ending the link...
...augment reporting done on the scene earlier, Scott monitored rival claims broadcast by Amman radio and by fedayeen outlets in Damascus and Baghdad. His efforts were supplemented by the contributions of both news and analysis from Correspondents James Bell, John Shaw and Wilton Wynn in Rome and from Marlin Levin in Jerusalem and Monica Dehn in London. Drawing on State Department sources in Washington, Diplomatic Correspondents Herman Nickel and B. William Mader were able to supply important assessments...
Late Friday evening, shortly after two rabbis on the TWA jet had conducted an impromptu two-minute service, the commandos started to evacuate the aircraft. By midday Saturday, they had transported the remaining women and children by cars and trucks into Amman. Another 141 passengers, including all men aboard the three jets and ten Jewish and Israeli women (some with dual citizenship), were taken to another?and unannounced?location. After the two caravans departed, the Front's demolition experts did their work, and the three shiny jets were reduced to smoking rubble...