Word: fedayeen
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...Jordan, where civil war between King Hussein's army and the Palestinian guerrillas was petering out, the last six hostages (of 54) had already been released by the fedayeen. In exchange, the R.A.F. Comet landed in Munich to pick up three fedayeen who had been held by the West Germans. Then it stopped in Zurich for three who had been in Swiss custody. Its passenger list complete, the British plane delivered all seven to Cairo...
...week angrily complained that his government was infiltrated by guerrillas, and that even his cook and chauffeur turned out to be terrorists. Newsmen who had been trapped in the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel (see THE PRESS) told of seeing Bedouins shooting a wounded fedai to death. Both army riflemen and fedayeen snipers fired on ambulances, and on one occasion guerrillas stole two Red Cross vehicles and converted them into ammunition carriers. The fedayeen lobbed mortars at Amman airport as planes landed to evacuate wounded Jordanians as well as U.S. and British women and children...
Outlook for Hussein. For the King, his clouded victory in the civil war could well prove a Pyrrhic one. The fedayeen are too strongly entrenched throughout the Arab world for Hussein to eliminate them. Never a favorite among his fellow Arab rulers, the King has now lost almost all support. Palestinians living under Israeli occupation on the Jordan's west bank last week talked proudly of "our revolution." Algeria and Libya, at one point during the civil war, made moves to join on the side of the fedayeen. Libya also cut off its annual $25.2 million subsidy to Jordan...
...overriding issue separating Arab leaders is how much support to give the Palestinian guerrilla movement. Because of their vow to destroy Israel as a state, the fedayeen have won immense popularity among the masses throughout the Arab world. Almost all Arab governments provide limited support to the guerrillas, and the more radical ones unreservedly endorse their cause. But established leaders are leary of the fedayeen's fanaticism and appalled by some of their tactics, especially airliner shootups and hijackings. Most of all, they see the proselytizing guerrillas as threats to their own regimes, and have hardly been reassured...
Because the bloodshed has reinforced sympathy among many Arabs for the Palestinian cause, Nasser's attempt to satisfy both sides seems almost hopeless. Nonetheless, he is determined to support moderate elements of the fedayeen, hoping they will be able to work out a reconciliation with Hussein...