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...Olympics last summer. Holding a sort of mock court in which the captives were judged according to their country's attitude toward the Palestinian cause, they singled out as hostages the two Americans, Noel and Moore (whom they bound and beat), Belgian Eid, Saudi Host Al Malhouk and Jordanian Chargé d'Affaires Adly al Nasser. The choices did not make complete sense. Though the U.S. and Jordan have strongly opposed the Palestinian guerrilla movement, Saudi Arabia has been ambivalent, giving financial support to both Jordan and the terrorists. As for Eid, it seemed he was mistaken...
...January, pilots landing at the International Airport near the northern Nigerian city of Kano must worry about a special hazard. Hot winds off the Sahara, known as harmattan, pick up so much dust and sand that the sky becomes hazy and visibility is drastically reduced. Last week a Royal Jordanian Airlines Boeing 707 coming in for a landing at Kano had to make a second attempt because of the blinding harmattan. As the plane landed on the second try, the 707 suddenly burst into flames, and 176 of its 202 passengers were killed. The death toll equaled that...
...Jordanian jet was under charter to Nigeria Airways, which each year runs a special shuttle to ferry Nigerian Moslems making their pilgrimages to Mecca. Jordanian and Nigerian authorities differed on the cause of the crash. The Jordanians maintained that the runway had collapsed and that Pilot John Waterman, 53, an American with 22,000 jet hours, lost control because of the depression in the strip, which snapped the plane's rugged landing gear. The plane then slued off the runway and burst into flames when fuel lines were punctured...
...been assigned to guard the Jordanian embassy last week, London Constable Peter Slimon did something most unusual for a bobby: he armed himself. En route to the embassy he encountered a bank stickup and pulled his revolver. In the ensuing gunfight one of the bandits wounded Slimon-but not before the bobby had killed one of the robbers...
Married. King Hussein, 37, indestructible ruler of Jordan; and Alia Toukan, 24, honey blonde airline hostess and a Jordanian diplomat's daughter whom Hussein met in October; he for the third time, she for the first; in Amman, less than a week after the King's divorce from wife...