Word: jordanian
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...Israelis regarded him as a representative of Fatah and thus, in their view, of Black September. Nasser always refused to carry a gun, despite warnings that his life might be in danger. A graduate in political science from the American University of Beirut and a former member of the Jordanian Parliament, he was perhaps the Palestinians' most eloquent champion...
...Middle Eastern "war of the spooks" is now a three-cornered battle. Not only are Israeli agents and Palestinian guerrillas zapping one another in an underground duel, but Jordanian operatives have joined...
...Beirut largely inhabited by Palestinians, a garaged Datsun suddenly exploded in a shower of metal. The owner could not under stand why, but the police could. In the same garage stood another Datsun owned by Ziad Helou, one of four men identified as the assassins who shot down Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell out side the Cairo-Sheraton Hotel...
...four assassins, never brought to trial, were quietly released a year ago by Egyptian authorities. Now, apparently, Jordanian vigilantes are after them. The would-be avengers were so inexpert, however, that they not only timed their bomb wrong but tucked it under the wrong Datsun. At least Helou assumed so. He cried publicly for the Lebanese government to protect him from "acts of sabotage by the Jordanian, American and Israeli intelligence departments...
...actual attack seemed to have been led by Yassin's deputy, Abu Salem, who has also been a broadcaster on the Voice of Palestine, an Al-Fatah program on Sudanese radio. The other six guerrillas, carrying Jordanian passports, arrived in Khartoum on an Egyptian flight the day before the attack. Numeiry did not link the Egyptian government to the plot, but he implied that Libya, which had invited Yassin to Tripoli, might be connected...