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...Tunisia's tortuous history, and relayed some of the excitement attending Bourguiba's 54th birthday celebration. Poking around the minarets and parapets of old Tunis, the NBC cameras caught some absorbing glimpses: the crowds chanting "Hi Yah Bourguiba" in the teeming souks and streets, the veiled Bedouin women greeting their first President with eerie, unearthly noises made, explained Huntley, by "bending their tongues back over their soft palates and screaming-making the tongues vibrate." The interview with Bourguiba was boiled down to 35 minutes, and the result was a candid, firsthand look at a handsome, vigorous personality...
...Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
King of the Streets. Communists and pro-Nasser extremists passed the word to start a nationwide strike against the regime. But long before dawn broke Wednesday, Hussein had sent loyal Bedouin troops with tanks into all the Palestinian strongkolds. Amman itself swarmed with blackened Bedouins in tanks and armored cars. Out came the demonstrators, mostly teen-age schoolboys, their teachers hustling them along like anxious sheep dogs. In the post-office square (which Americans nicknamed Riot Plaza), crowds began rhythmically clapping hands and chanting: "Down with the Eisenhower Plan!" and "Long Live Nasser!" The marchers threw stones at the police...
Hayari bustled off to Zerka to find out who had set off the previous week's rioting. He fastened the blame on four Bedouin officers and put them under house arrest. He hustled back to report to Hussein-only to find the four Bedouin officers drinking coffee in a palace reception room. "I didn't send you to arrest my boys," explained the King...
...come here, if I want. This is my country." Hayari saluted and took off by car for Damascus, leaving his letter of resignation behind him, and proclaiming, when he got to Syria, that the U.S. was spending fabulous sums in Jordan "to buy traitors." After naming a more compliant Bedouin to be chief of staff, Hussein ordered a purge of 60 army officers ("Replace them with sergeants who will fight for the King!" he said...