Word: hussein
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Curious Footnote. One by one, other Biblical towns fell to the advancing Israelis?Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem?until they had seized all of Hussein's kingdom west of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea. Unlike their Egyptian brethren in Sinai, King Hussein's legionnaires fought stubbornly and with discipline. But as in Sinai, the Israelis' absolute mastery of the air meant ultimate Arab defeat. All day the jets wheeled into steep dives to drop bombs and napalm canisters on stubborn pockets of Jordanian resistance. Unaware of the extent of Egypt's air losses, Hussein could not believe that the Israeli...
Much of the reporting from the Arab camp for this week's cover story was done by TIME'S Beirut bureau chief, Lee Griggs, who during the past year has had long interviews with Egypt's President Nasser, Jordan's King Hussein, Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Shah of Iran. Working out of Beirut, Griggs was able to cover the week's events in Jordan and Syria. "The main trouble is knowing whom to believe," says Griggs. "Everyone has an angle and facts are relative at best. Fortunately, after nearly three years...
Second Thoughts. Nevertheless, there was hope that-barring miscalculation -the crisis would not pass from the shouting stage to the shooting stage for a while. Nasser has achieved what he set out to win. He has mended his shredded prestige among fellow Arabs, forced Jordan's King Hussein into a humiliating acknowledgment of his strength, and successfully challenged the Israelis-so far. In fact, Cairo's-and the world's-greatest fear is that he will be unable to restrain his more volatile allies, notably Syria and the fanatic Palestine Liberation Organization...
...oppose. He made other mistakes as well. Driven to distraction by the increase in border terrorism, he lunged out wildly in a massive retaliation raid aimed not at Syria, whose government trains and finances the Arab commando units responsible for the incidents, but at relatively peaceful Jordan, where King Hussein had been doing his best to keep the terrorists out of his kingdom...
This policy would have some costs for the U.S., even if Nasser backed down. For the Egyptian leader's indictment of the West would lose this country some good-will in the Middle East, and would force the U.S.'s best friends -- King Hussein of Jordan and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia -- to adopt a less friendly stance, at least in public...