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...Outwardly, Jordan's frontier with Israel seemed calm enough. Gunfire along the border had died away. In Jordan's frontier towns of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah, old men puffed their snake-stemmed hookahs outside coffeehouses, and traffic beeped its way back to normal. But beneath the surface, tensions were tight. "The whole place," said one of King Hussein's former Cabinet ministers, "is ready to blow...
...rioting broke out in several Jordanian towns, sparked mostly by Jordan's angry Palestinian population, which comprises fully two-thirds of Jordan's 2,000,000 people. Rioters took to the streets, demanding arms for defense and attacking Hussein for refusing to counter aggression with aggression. In Hebron, they burned the car of Hussein's governor and forced the army to throw roadblocks around the town. At Nablus, they potshot at po lice from barricades and upstairs win dows. In the Arab sector of Jerusalem, thousands poured through the streets, ripping down pictures of the King...
Outside of town, meantime, troops barricaded the main highway and waited for the Jordanian soldiers they knew would be rushing over from nearby Hebron. Sure enough, 20 truckloads soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back...
Drill a Little Deeper. Understandably eager for oil, little Jordan celebrated the spudding in of Mecom's first well in the olive groves and rolling hills north of Hebron. Mecom was banqueted by King Hussein, in turn entertained Jordanian officials with a dinner party at the new Jerusalem Intercontinental Hotel on the Mount of Olives. The jaunty young King spilled oil ceremonially over the rig, and a dozen lambs were slaughtered and sent to the poor in a good-luck ritual...
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