Word: bedouins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cabinet made up of eleven army officers and headed by Brigadier General Mohammed Daoud, 50, as Premier. More important, he dusted off a measure that was hurriedly enacted during the 1967 war with Israel and declared martial law. Hussein appointed Field Marshal Habes Majali, a 57-year-old Bedouin officer, as commander in chief of the army as well as military governor of Jordan...
That Hashemite caravan has been a long and winding one. The principal reason for the fanatic support that Hussein received from Bedouin warriors in Jordan is that the King can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Mohammed. Thirty-seven generations of Hashemites were traditionally Grand Sherifs, or rulers of Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish...
...days, crowds rumbled through Amman carrying signs saying AMERICAN PHANTOMS KILL ARAB CHILDREN. Finally a mob of nearly 1,000 burned the U.S. Information Service library, while another crowd of 800 roared on to the U.S. embassy. Amman police and soldiers were nowhere to be seen. Brushing past six Bedouin guards, the crowd stormed the embassy compound, burned four official cars and replaced the American flag with the green, black and red emblem of Palestine. As a parting gesture, the demonstrators ripped the Seal of the U.S. from the embassy's wall, paraded it through Amman, then trampled...
...same time, an equally menacing situation was developing in Jordan, where King Hussein gathered loyal Bedouin chieftains and hinted at a showdown with guerrilla organizations that have defied his government. Alarmed by the growing guerrilla strength across the Jordan River, Information Minister Israel Galili warned that "if foreign forces eliminate King Hussein," Israel might order military action in Jordan...