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DUSK had just descended on the flat, lonely Arava wilderness north of Elath when the two convoys of cars approached each other at a border point where Israel and Jordan meet. Prearranged signals were flashed, and the convoy from Jordan sped into Israel. Some of the Jordanians joined the Israeli convoy, which moved to a secluded spot. For 90 minutes, Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon carried on an undisturbed conversation in an air-conditioned car. Israeli security men maintained a lookout, and Israeli army units near by went on the alert, without...
Rumors of a possible attack by the U.S. or Israel threw Popular Front commandos into a panic. On Friday afternoon, they suddenly ordered a four-man Red Cross medical team off the airstrip and turned back a Red Cross supply convoy that was on its way to the hostages. Then, while passengers and crew were hustled inside the stifling aircraft, demolition squads wired up explosive charges under the wings of each plane. Popular Front leaders demanded new guarantees from Red Cross negotiators that none of the five nations were contemplating a rescue attack on the airfield. Said Swiss Foreign Minister...
...enough to survive such an embarrassment; Hussein probably is not. The Jordanian king badly needs a diplomatic success to save his throne. Last week he survived yet another assassination attempt, the second against him in the past three months. According to a palace report, he was riding in a convoy of seven Land Rovers on his way to Amman airport to meet Daughter Alia, 14, when the attackers struck from ambush. Hussein was uninjured, but the Jordanian army responded to the attack by shelling guerrilla camps around Amman. Fedayeen leaders complained that Hussein had staged the incident as a pretext...
...Communists continued to roam at will throughout the countryside, including the Angkor ruins, which the government declared an "open city" to prevent any battle damage. From art lovers around the world came messages appealing for both sides to consider the priceless ruins neutral. At week's end a convoy evacuated Angkor's French caretakers, including Curator Bernard Groslier. Scattered fighting was reported among the treasures...
...good, the situation in Cambodia is fluid and newsmen are virtually on their own. When the two groups came to the last roadblock of Cambodian soldiers, they presumably flashed their press cards and headed on, unaware that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops had moved into the area. The convoy had gone only a mile or so when the soldiers at the checkpoint heard an explosion and bursts of small-arms fire. Two days later, when Cambodian troops moved forward, they found the burned-out Jeep and five fresh-graves. The body of Syvertsen was in one of them...