Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only of the U.S.'s defenses but of the perils and opportunities of cold war; e.g., last summer President Eisenhower secretly sent Anderson to the Middle East to pave the way for King Saud's U.S. visit, which in turn paid massive premiums during the recent Jordanian crisis...
...accusation was too much for Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein, whose reply was even hotter. "Syrian forces encircled towns in northern Jordan at the moment of the plot against the government," answered the Jordanians, "lent assistance to Communist leaders" and "armed and largely paid criminals to assassinate certain personalities in Jordanian territory; 160 of these criminals, provided with Czech arms, have been arrested." Naturally, Jordan continued, it was bringing these charges not "to embitter relations between Arabs," but just to help "Syrian public opinion to guard against its deceitful hypocritical leaders...
Jordan's all-night curfew was lifted last week for a macabre purpose-to permit citizens to witness and draw the moral from the hanging of three Jordanian National Guardsmen and a street vendor...
...enemies, churned the waters from Syria to Egypt in a dramatic display of U.S. might. At the same time Jordan requested-and Washington immediately supplied-a $10 million grant to strengthen young King Hussein's struggle to rid his country of Communists and pro-Nasser extremists. Key Jordanian stipulation, to which the U.S. readily agreed: the U.S. money must be explicitly separate from doctrine funds. Moreover, said King Hussein, Jordan "had no intention" of inviting Richards to discuss the doctrine...
Cairo's radio, Voice of the Arabs, strangely muted during the crisis' first week, began talking darkly about plots "in the palace" against the Jordanian people. This was the familiar signal, sounded just before the Baghdad Pact riots in 1955, for Egyptian agents and Communist organizers to lead the mobs into the streets. But before it could begin, King Hussein got into his twin-engine de Havilland Dove, and flew off to a secret rendezvous at H-3 with his Hashemite cousin, Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal...