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...killers' key demands during their 60-hour occupation of the Saudi embassy was the release of 17 other Palestinian guerrillas who had 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...
...terrorists wanted nothing less than the release by the U.S. of Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert Kennedy; the release by Jordan of "our leader," Abu Daoud, and 16 "colleagues" who were arrested last month for plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime; the release by West Germany of two criminals sympathetic to Black September; the release by Israel of all female Palestinian prisoners. If their demands were not met, the terrorists said, they would start executing the hostages one by one, "beginning with the American ambassador...
...week's end Sudan's Numeiry and the six-man delegation that accompanied him to Amman to arrange a truce finally got both sides to agree to a ceasefire. As the truce was going into effect, word reached Amman that Jordan's Premier Brigadier General Mohammed Daoud, who was named to that post only two weeks ago when Hussein set up an all-military Cabinet, had abruptly resigned. Daoud, in Cairo to attend the Arab summit, disappeared from his Nile Hilton hotel room, leaving a note for Hussein explaining that he was making way for a government...
Spare, smiling General Daoud was a career officer dedicated to the King and to Jordan. But the general was also a Palestinian who hoped for the eventual creation of a homeland. He soon discovered that he had little authority; Field Marshal Majali held the real power as military governor. Daoud was so insignificant that he was met at Cairo airport by Egypt's Minister of Irrigation. At the summit meeting he was ostracized by other representatives. He was even losing the loyalty of his own family. His daughter Mona loudly backed the fedayeen and badgered her father by letter...
...army mutiny. Rifai volunteered to resign as Premier because he was "tired." Instead, Hussein scathingly rebuked him and then fired him?along with the rest of his 17-member Cabinet. The King appointed a new 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...