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...Jordanian flyers had the sky almost to themselves. The Syrian air force never showed up, probably because Damascus was worried about Israel and was also feeling pressure from Moscow to withdraw. Furthermore, once its planes entered into combat, Syria could no longer disclaim responsibility for the invasion. But from time to time a flight of eight Israeli Mirages showed up over the battlefield near Irbid. The Israeli jets took no part in the battle; they were there to take pictures of the fighting-as were a number of U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes. An Israeli source said that the Mirages were...
...battle for Amman began at 4:30 a.m. Sept. 17, with armored cars of the Jordanian army hammering at an unfinished apartment block outside the hotel. We drifted down to the lobby and listened to Amman radio. As dawn rolled gently over the dry, brown hills around us, we could see tanks firing and armored cars speeding through the city. The air became filled with the sound of breaking glass and whistling bullets. The hotel, it turned out, was in the crossfire of opposing troops...
...through the first day, we waited in vain for the Jordanian army to acknowledge our existence. At one point, some photographers and TV cameramen ventured into the hotel garden, hoping to attach themselves to a group of soldiers and get closer to the war. The soldiers waved them back and fired over their heads. Undaunted, the reporters climbed to the balconies of the hotel with their equipment. A Swedish cameraman waved to a Bedouin soldier in an armored car and was promptly shot in the leg. By some miracle, there were no more casualties among...
...embassy on the phone to dictate a pool dispatch. In the middle of a second dispatch, the line went dead. Soon the hotel-and indeed the whole city-was without electricity or running water. The hotel bar shut down, but an enterprising employee did a brisk business in Jordanian beer at $1.40 a bottle...
...Some of us also kept diaries of life inside "Stalag Intercontinental." In the occasional lulls, the sound of typewriters could be heard all over the building. Friendly embassies accepted some pool copy when we could get it to them. But not until the first newsmen were evacuated from the Jordanian capital last week were we able to fulfill our assignments: to write our own stories of the battle for Amman...