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...Sunday night meeting had just broken up when news came that the Syrians had overrun Irbid in northern Jordan. Kissinger's deputy, Brigadier General Alexander Haig, ran outside, called the Action Group members back to the situation room. They recommended putting N.C., the on 82nd alert?another Airborne at move Fort Bragg, designed mainly to influence Moscow...
...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 said it had captured an estimated 5,000 prisoners, including the two top aides to Yasser Arafat, head of Al-Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization, which includes eleven major guerrilla groups. Among the army's captives were...
...probably because Damascus was worried about Israel and was also feeling pressure from Moscow to withdraw. Furthermore, once its planes entered into combat, Syria could no longer disclaim responsibility for the invasion. But from time to time a flight of eight Israeli Mirages showed up over the battlefield near Irbid. The Israeli jets took no part in the battle; they were there to take pictures of the fighting-as were a number of U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes. An Israeli source said that the Mirages were also trying to throw a scare into the Syrians. "In this kind of fight," acknowledged...
...first time, Israelis also hit at the 15,000 Iraqi troops stationed in Jordan, who recently started firing their long-range, 122-mm. Russian heavy guns into Israel. Israeli jets flashed across the cease-fire lines three times to bomb the area around the Jordanian town of Irbid and hammer at the artillery positions of the 421st Iraqi battalion. Deep inside Jordan, Israeli commandos blew up two vital bridges connecting Amman and the port of Aqaba...
...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...