Word: bedouins
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...Syria's pro-Soviet strongman, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj. They had met when they were fellow military attachés in Paris, now talked daily by telephone. Against this impressive lineup, the young King could count only on loyal forces inside the army and the support of Bedouin chiefs...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 16--Jordan's new government, which is expected to turn this Middle Eastern kingdom aside from its drift toward the Arab pro-Soviet camp, appeared to be in solid control today. Tough Bedouin troops and security police, who supported 21-year-old King Hussein when he placed his crown on the line at the height of Jordan's six-day political crisis, maintained strict order...
AMMAN, Jordan, April 15--Young King Hussein, backed by tough Bedouin fighters of the Arab Legion, won today in his struggle to give Jordan a moderate government purged of Communists and extremists...
With the precious fragments in their soiled cigarette boxes, Kando journeys to the "Scrollery"-the Palestine Archaeological Museum in the Jordanian Old City of Jerusalem. There he usually receives the fees for his Bedouin clients (according to the size and condition of the bits of manuscript). And there an international-and inter-credal-task force of scholars takes over, trying to fit the fragments together in a vast, incredibly difficult jigsaw puzzle...
Curreatly, the scholars at Jerusalem are preoccupied with the worldly question of how and whom to pay for more fragments. While the largest single gift of money came from the Jordanian government under the old informal system much of the money for the Bedouin suppliers came from foreign foundations and universities that expected to keep the fragments after the scholars were done with their first studies. Now Jordan's nationalist government wants to abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going...