Word: fedayeen
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...P.F.L.P. but all the freewheeling guerrilla groups, King Hussein and his army chased them out of Amman and penned them in in a mountainous area near the Syrian border. Two months ago, 30,000 royal troops, mostly Bedouins, attacked again and wiped out that last guerrilla pocket. The fedayeen either surrendered to the King or fled to friendlier Arab countries. George Habash, the soft-eyed physician who still leads the militantly Marxist P.F.L.P., is determined to continue the fight. In his first interview with a Western newsman since last year's hijackings, he told TIME'S Gavin Scott...
...such remaining Arab monarchs as Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal have any say, Habash will not be building anything. The Saudi King is anxious to bring Hussein and the relatively moderate Al-Fatah guerrillas together to negotiate a modus vivendi that will allow the fedayeen to continue their hit-and-run attacks on Israel. The P.F.L.P., however, will be pointedly excluded from any such parley. "We do not care for the Reds of the Popular Front," said a Saudi leader last week...
Jordan's King Hussein has intermittently rubbed the Syrian military regime the wrong way ever since he began his repression of the Palestinian guerrillas in earnest. Last month's final drive, which all but extinguished the fedayeen presence in the Jerash woods of northern Jordan, so upset Damascus that Syria closed her border with Jordan. The decision disrupted the usual heavy road traffic between Amman and Beirut and forced Jordan to route its phosphate exports and all imports through its only port at Aqaba...
...week's end, 96 tired, hungry guerrillas had given themselves up to Israeli patrols. Blindfolded and carted off in buses, one of which had a VISIT ISRAEL poster on its side, the fedayeen were confined in Nablus. Their status was uncertain, since they had committed no hostile acts in Israel. Still, they were the fortunate few. Back in Jordan, tough Bedouin legionnaires were killing or capturing nearly 2,500 of their comrades as King Hussein sought to end, once and for all, the fedayeen threat to his throne. One guerrilla who made it to the Israeli side said angrily...
...greater threat to him than to Israel. Equipped with new M-16 rifles, tanks, armored personnel carriers and F-104 Starfighters from the U.S., the King was well prepared for an all-out war against what Premier Tal described as guerrilla "terror, brutality and sabotage." The government ordered the fedayeen to move to a stretch of flat, waterless desert toward the Iraqi border. The fedayeen stayed put-as the government expected-and the army moved...