Word: fedayeen
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...today's world, the U.S. has discovered that it cannot control the government it so massively finances and protects in Saigon. Neither the Soviet Union nor Communist China can control Hanoi. At least for a brief time, no one could control either the Syrians or the fedayeen in the Jordanian desert last week. There is, in fact, no way to check the long-term forces for change in most of the world's developing nations. When those changes promise a better life for more people, the U.S. might do well to support those forces, regardless of ideology. In fact, America...
...many of the Administration's highest officials gathered in Virginia's Airlie House to honor Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who was given a "Statesman in Medicine" award. Henry Kissinger, the President's adviser on national security, received word that Hussein had marshaled his troops for a showdown with the fedayeen, that civil war in Jordan was imminent, and that the British Foreign Office was on the London-Washington line asking what the U.S. planned to do about it. Kissinger quietly but swiftly tapped those of the dinner guests who are members of the Administration's crisis-management team, the Washington...
...group considered some possible outcomes of Hussein's move: a clear-cut routing of the guerrillas; a smashing fedayeen victory and Hussein's fall; a prolonged stalemate. They outlined U.S. options to deal with each eventuality. Far more ominous, however, was another possibility: that the Iraqis and Syrians, long sympathetic to the commandos, might intervene. That could tempt Israeli troops, armor and airpower to plunge in too. Then Egypt might respond?and Soviet pilots and technicians have become an integral part of Gamal Abdel Nasser's military forces. The first aim of U.S. strategy had to be to confine...
...envoy's credentials and discussed emergency U.S. assistance for Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days of battle, between the Jordanian army and the guerrillas of the Palestine liberation movement, the army seized several fedayeen strongholds in and around Amman, practically destroyed a guerrilla redoubt not far from the capital at Zerká, mauled a larger force of Syrian tanks and troops, and laid siege in the north near Syria to guerrilla-held Irbid, Jordan's second-largest city after Amman. The royal army...
...argument has obvious flaws. With former fedayeen at its helm, Jordan might march against Israel before the advocates of peace have a chance to prevail. Further, there would almost certainly be a savage internal dogfight as the leaders of rival factions struggled for paramountcy?and the battle would be complicated by the presence of Jordan's Bedouins, who make up 35% of the population and despise the fedayeen. The greatest immediate flaw, of course, is that Jordan's young King?as long as his shaky throne lasts?will have no intention of handing his kingdom over to his adversaries...