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...mood turned to alarm on Sunday morning, Sept. 20, when Syrian tanks rolled southward to relieve pressure on the commandos. Israeli troops began massing along the Jordanian border to the west. Nixon asked Secretary of State William Rogers to warn the Russians again. He did so, in the sternest note that the Nixon Administration has yet sent to Moscow. It threatened the "gravest consequences" if the Syrians did not withdraw...
Publicly, however, the Administration continued to sound belligerent and to apply diplomatic pressure as the Syrian armor found the Jordanian resistance brutally tough but did not pull back. At the U.N., the U.S. shunned a British and French effort to seek a four-power declaration urging an end to the fighting, fearing that it would only lead to fruitless wrangling...
They did turn back on the very next day, though U.S. pressure was probably not the major reason. The most significant cause seemed to be the devastating counterattack launched by the Jordanian troops and aircraft (see THE WORLD). The threat of a flanking Israeli attack also worried the Syrians. The failure of Iraq to join them hurt too. Yet it was also likely, as one White House official claimed, that "the threat of intervention helped to stabilize the situation...
SELDOM has a newly arrived diplomat presented credentials under conditions as bizarre as those that faced U.S. Ambassador L. Dean Brown in Amman last week. Brown, who had been pinned down for seven days in the beleaguered American embassy as civil war raged outside, clambered aboard a Jordanian armored personnel carrier and was whisked to Al-Hummar Palace on the fringe of the city. There, King Hussein accepted the envoy's credentials and discussed emergency U.S. assistance for Jordan. The fact that the King was on hand and receiving ambassadors indicated how the struggle was going. During ten days...
...Syrian tank column was challenged near Ramtha junction by a smaller force of Jordanian armor whose vehicles carried the black, white, green and red Hashemite flag along with pictures of the King. Hussein's order to his troops, the best in the Arab world, was to "stand fast and teach the heretic leaders of Syria a lesson in heroism." His 40th and 60th armored brigades did just that. First they blunted the Syrian invasion by knocking out 40 tanks. In an armored tactic known as "the loop," the 40th hit the Syrians head-on while the 60th rolled around...