Word: fedayeen
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...heads the Al-Fatah guerrillas and last week was named commander in chief of the twelve major guerrilla organizations, flew into Amman from Cairo to arrange a truce. In an all-night session at the palace, he and Hussein hammered out a ten-point pact, mostly favorable to the fedayeen...
...major concession, the King agreed to accept the "resignation" of his uncle, Major General Sherif Nasser Ben Jamil, as commander in chief of Jordan's army. The fedayeen and many other Jordanians despise the obese Sherif Nasser, who became rich enough from smuggling guns and hashish to build a $900,000 palace for himself and his young second wife. Mainly, however, the fedayeen feared that Sherif Nasser was using his relationship and access to the King's ear to provoke a showdown with them. They were almost surely right. Sherif Nasser apparently feared that the guerrillas were rapidly...
...Fedayeen leaders also insisted that Hussein order the resignation of his cousin, Brigadier General Sherif Zeid Ben Shaker, an anti-fedayeen royalist whose 3rd Armored Division guards Amman. Hussein yielded, but warned that this was the last time he would comply with fedayeen demands. Announcing that he was personally taking over as commander in chief of the armed forces, he vowed: "This is the last chance. There will be no other...
...held his throne, but it seemed less secure than ever. And he was not the only one to suffer. The disturbances pointed up a serious ideological split between Habash's extreme leftist outfit and Arafat's bigger, more moderate Fatah. To make matters worse, the twelve biggest fedayeen groups range from Maoist to moderate in their political views; unless they can achieve something more than paper unity, their quarrels will surely bring more violence to the Middle East. Last week, for example, observers in Amman insisted that they had seen guerrilla groups shooting at one another...
...message to the Lebanese government as well. This week Beirut is scheduled to begin enforcing a tough new decree forbidding guerrillas to fire across the border into Israel, plant mines along the frontier or carry arms in populated areas. Such decrees have been issued before to discipline the fedayeen and avoid Israeli retaliation, but they have always been quickly ignored. This time the Lebanese army, embarrassed by continuing Israeli patrols inside Lebanon, has orders to make the decree stick...