Word: jordanian
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...skill. His eyes, though colorblind, are somehow uniquely sensitive to the kind of synthetic dyes used in camouflage fabrics. "When I see that kind of dye," he explained, "it shines like new money." Peering through binoculars, he soon spotted, clear as neon, the important details of a neatly concealed Jordanian gun emplacement a mile away. Using Jones as a spotter, the Israelis quickly knocked out the guns and began the march that a day and a half later ended in the capture of Jerusalem's Old City...
...always difficult to believe. In Cairo, last week, it scarcely disturbed the morning bustle of the bazaar, or the gossip of black-clad women clucking along the banks of the muddy Nile. No matter that only the night before, President Gamal Abdel Nasser had welcomed Iraq to the Egypto-Jordanian alliance against Israel, and proclaimed: "We are so eager for battle in order to force the enemy to awake from his dreams and meet Arab reality face to face." Fixed in their own routine, the residents of Nasser's capital listened to the unfamiliar sound of the siren and continued?...
Throughout the crisis, in fact, the only actual casualties so far have been caused by fighting between the Arab states themselves. Sixteen people were killed when a booby-trapped Syrian car exploded at the Jordanian customs post of Ramtha. Jordan accused the Baathist regime of "premeditated sabotage," ordered Syria to close down its embassy in Amman and recalled its own diplomats from Damascus. In Yemen, Egyptian troops launched a new campaign aimed at driving Yemeni royalists from a stronghold in the northern mountains; in raids during the previous week, Egyptian planes had bombed two Saudi Arabian towns. Forgotten entirely last...
Ambiguous Announcement. Though the crisis had so far stopped short of actual fighting, the cities of both sides were still on what amounted to a war footing. Cairo's streets were clogged with military convoys heading eastward. Airraid drills blacked out Cairo, Alexandria and the Jordanian section of Jerusalem. In Israel, schoolchildren were put to work sandbagging their schools, and car owners were drafted for emergency duty hauling food supplies to supermarkets mobbed by panic buyers. Tourists, warned by their governments to get out of the Middle East, scuffled with one another for seats on outgoing flights, and airlines...
...hulk of an ancient sunken ship make passage difficult under the best conditions, is easy for the Egyptians to control. Their announcement that they would turn back only ships bearing "strategic" goods to Israel was ambiguous enough to keep everybody guessing. At least three ships headed for the Jordanian port of Aqaba were boarded but allowed to pass through the blockade without incident...