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...scene of the action in Jordan, communications were shut down much of the week, and over-zealous royalist sharpshooters kept Western journalists virtually imprisoned in Amman's Jordan Intercontinental Hotel. Correspondent Roland Flamini spent eight harrowing days there before he managed to get to Beirut and report on his experience (see PRESS). Needless to say, he is happy to be out. "Winston Churchill once said that there's nothing more gratifying than being shot at without result," Flamini said later. "Personally, I find more gratification in not being shot...
...that was about all they had. Virtual prisoners for a week, they could learn little beyond what they could see in dangerous peeks from the hotel's windows. Worse, after the first day they could not file on what they saw; telephone service was cut. TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini tells what it was like to be sitting helplessly on top of one of the year's biggest stories...
...torn Jordan, TIME Correspondents Roland Flamini and Gavin Scott carefully worked out a plan to assist each other and speed delivery of their dispatches to New York. They shook hands in Amman, the capital, and Scott flew off to Beirut with his notes while Flamini continued to cover the fighting between Jordanian troops and guerrilla insurgents. The two correspondents' plan called for Scott to return as soon as possible so that Flamini could leave and file his reports. Uncertain transmission facilities in Jordan made the awkward hand-carrying procedure essential...
...plane on which Scott was a passenger turned out to be the last one permitted to leave Jordan. Flamini could not get out, and Scott could not get back in. "Our little game of hopscotch didn't work," Scott lamented in Beirut. "We haven't heard from Roland since." Presumably, Flamini was trapped with other newsmen at Amman's besieged Inter-Continental Hotel...
Welcome Presence. It is possible that the cagey Prince gave the riots his tacit approval as a way of putting pressure on the Communists to reduce their forces in Cambodia. Sihanouk gave some support to that theory in an interview in Paris with TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini. Preparing to depart for home via Moscow and Peking, he said that he would ask the Russians and Chinese "to exercise friendly pressure on the Viet Cong and Vietnamese not to infiltrate our borders." Unless the Communist powers do so, Sihanouk went on, the result will be the "Americanization of Cambodia." Sihanouk...