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...been arrested in Jordan last month for plotting to overthrow Hussein's regime. Among these 17 was the man they openly called "our leader," Abu Daoud, one of Al-Fatah's highest-ranking leaders. Hussein adamantly resisted the guerrillas' demand, even though his own chargé d'affaires in Khartoum was the guerrillas' fifth hostage. Last week, when the shooting stopped, Hussein retaliated by ordering the execution of 16 of the prisoners, including Daoud. Other Arab governments in turn protested Hussein's severity, and so he stayed the executions...
...Noel, a career officer in his first ambassadorial post, was nicked in the leg by a bullet and Belgian Chargé d'Affaires Guy Bid was hit in the foot. They, along with others, were forced back into the embassy. Once they got inside, the terrorists rounded up more diplomats, including the Hungarian and Yugoslav envoys who unsuccessfully tried to hide in the roof garden...
...last summer. Holding a sort of mock court in which the captives were judged according to their country's attitude toward the Palestinian cause, they singled out as hostages the two Americans, Noel and Moore (whom they bound and beat), Belgian Eid, Saudi Host Al Malhouk and Jordanian Chargé d'Affaires Adly al Nasser. The choices did not make complete sense. Though the U.S. and Jordan have strongly opposed the Palestinian guerrilla movement, Saudi Arabia has been ambivalent, giving financial support to both Jordan and the terrorists. As for Eid, it seemed he was mistaken...
Hsiung Hsiang-hui, Chou's Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Former chargè d'affaires in London (1962-65), Hsiung is among Chou's ablest aides. Educated at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a deputy representative to the U.N. last fall, he speaks excellent English and is ranked one of China's front-rank diplomats and one of its foremost U.S. specialists...
Career Diplomat Fu Hao is an expert in Asian affairs. An Chih-yuan was Peking's chargé in Moscow when Sino-Soviet relations were descending to their invective-filled worst. Garrulous Tang Ming-chao got a degree from the University of California and edited a small pro-Communist daily in New York City before returning to China in 1949; he has been a greeter of foreign VIPs in Peking and a traveling agitator, plugging the Communist line at one "youth conference" or antiwar rally after another despite his age (he is now 61). Hsiung Hsiang-hui, 52, picked...