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...night-shift work at a nearby textile plant. When the truck driver, aware that an alert was on, refused to stop, two of the Arabs opened fire. One woman was instantly killed, another mortally wounded, and all the others were hurt. The truck's engine was shot out. Driver Faiz Saad coasted silently down a hill into a Jewish border village, where he gave the alarm...
Hussein insisted on maintaining his authority. The fedayeen demanded an end to the curfew, and freedom of movement. The standoff came to an end when Sheik Akif al-Faiz, Minister of Communications and leader of the largest Bedouin tribe, threatened to withdraw his support if the king used Bedouin troops against the fedayeen. Hussein, under pressure as well from Saudi Arabia, which subsidizes Jordan's budget, promised to lift the curfew and to allow the fedayeen to keep their arms. In turn, they promised to keep their armed men off the streets of Amman...
...Premier spoke, police had arrested 38-year-old Major General Akbar Khan, chief of general staff of Pakistan's army, and his wife, at army headquarters in Rawalpindi. In Karachi, they arrested Brigadier M. A. Latif, commander of a brigade in Quetta, near the Afghan border. In Lahore, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, editor of the Pakistan Times, the country's second largest English-language newspaper, was taken into custody. All were accused of trying to overthrow the government...
...Leftist Faiz is best known as an Urdu poet. Both soldiers are career officers from the old Indian army. Akbar Khan enjoys an added reputation as a practical joker. Once, to amuse himself, if not his friends, he had an aide read fake news bulletins over a microphone connected to his home radio. While Akbar chuckled, his worried guests heard realistic descriptions of the death of one guest's father, a fire which burned down another's house, and an earthquake in an area where a third man owned property...
Akbar's conspiracy was no joking matter. Although Premier Liaquat refused further comment, Defense Ministry officials hinted at an explanation: Faiz, who is also a leader of the pro-Communist Azad Pakistan Party, and the two officers had planned to stage a military revolt, aiming at a pro-Communist dictatorship...