Word: jordanian
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...airline hijackings unnerved the Administration for some reasons that were not immediately obvious. First, the Pan Am 747 blown up by Palestinian guerrillas at Cairo airport turned out to have been carrying some classified NATO documents. In addition, two passengers on one of the planes that landed in the Jordanian desert work for the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency. The two likely had a fund of military secrets stored in their heads...
...going. All of the leaders Nixon visited, including Pope Paul, Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Spain's General Francisco Franco and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, applauded the effort and urged its continuation -though Nasser's death and the Jordanian war make the prospect for progress more tenuous than ever (see THE WORLD...
...Russia's growing role in Egypt did not trouble Nasser, the growing drain of the conflict with Israel apparently did. In August, he accepted a U.S. initiative calling for a cease-fire at Suez and peace talks. Then the Jordanian civil war erupted, with Arab fighting Arab, and Nasser was again cast in the peacemaker's role. He summoned Arab heads of government to Cairo for a summit to settle the fighting...
...Amman, where the heaviest fighting of the war had taken place, shooting had already stopped. Under the peace plan, both guerrillas and army personnel were leaving. Joint teams of truce officials, guerrillas and Jordanian army officers ranged through the city supervising the evacuation...
...Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Shattered water mains were mended, but there were no pumps working to carry water to the top of Amman's hills. Over whole sections of the city hung the suffocating stench of death. A mass grave dug in the Ashrafiryeh section by the Jordanian army was discovered; it contained 45 bodies...