Word: jordanian
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Panthers, the S.D.S., Weathermen, Jordanian and Algerian guerrillas, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans who can't shoot straight, longhairs, hippies, Joe Namath, Robert Kennedy, Negro agents, Martin Luther King, Princeton professors and student demonstrators...
...with the King's army, both the U.S. Sixth Fleet and Israeli forces were poised to intervene on Hussein's side. But the King's tanks and planes repelled the Syrians. The U.S., which is already acting on a $30 million allotment to re-equip the Jordanian army, listened to requests by Hussein for additional equipment that could bring the bill to $200 million...
...there were reports that the two had been asked to leave Algeria and were on their way to another guerrilla training ground: Jordan. Palestinian terrorists have trained radicals from West Germany, Nicaragua and the U.S. in camps outside Amman. A Canadian journalist touring a guerrilla camp in the Jordanian mountains, was astonished to find two young Montrealers in Bedouin headgear learning the craft of "selective assassination." The youths, both members of the F.L.Q., thought that problems with language and unfamiliar Soviet weapons were a small price to pay for "military training which we can easily put into practice when...
Flung together in confining cities, the various Transjordanian ethnic groups are intermingling, and substituting political allegiance for tribal or ethnic ones. In a country where no formal political parties are allowed to function, the urban Jordanian turns increasingly to the fedayeen, mostly because of the guerrillas' commitment to defeating Israel but also because they are attracted by the emerging social cohesion of the Palestinians...
...fedayeen, non-Palestinian Jordanians are not bent on overthrowing Hussein, but the King's attempts to repress the guerrillas have turned many of that group against him. Even neutral Jordanians were repelled by the brutality of Hussein's army. In Amman, Bedouin soldiers slew wounded guerrillas, some while they lay helpless on stretchers. Others looted stores and houses and raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look...