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...among the Arab countries has sent scores of defectors criss crossing in the air lanes. Sallal's charge d'affaires at the Yemeni embassy in Czechoslovakia last week flew to Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
Much of the violence centered in Jordan, where two bombs exploded in the capital of Amman and three more in the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem. There might have been even more explosions if alert Jordanian demolition experts had not found and defused eight additional bombs, including a packet of four dynamite sticks discovered near the office of the governor of Jerusalem. As a result, security guards were doubled at government buildings, and guards frisked passersby for explosives. Jordanian police arrested two infiltrators from Syria who, police said, were on a mission to assassinate King Hussein...
Hussein's refusal to arm Jordan's Palestinian refugees against another attack by Israel had merely spurred the flow of contraband weapons that have been filtering quietly into refugee camps on both sides of the Jordan River. Jordanian troops uncovered one huge arms cache in Hebron and, after a blazing gunfight that left one policeman dead, intercepted another truckload of weapons heading into Nablus. At an anti-Hussein demonstration in Damascus, Syrian Chief of State Noureddin Attassi promised Jordanians all the weapons they needed-not to fight Israel, but to overthrow Hussein. "Today," Attassi roared, "Jordan will...
...clock alert; he began sending extra arms to police posts on the border, started drafting all men between 18 and 40 for 90 days of crash training and strung his tough, trusted Arab Legionnaires all along the frontier. His forces soon arrested four Syrian terrorists who, according to the Jordanian army, were sent across the border to bomb government buildings, bridges and military telephone lines. It was the first such Arab terrorism reported against Jordan itself...
...protect Jordan against its Arab neighbors as well as against Israel, the U.S. is considering a shipment of armored vehicles and antitank weapons to Jordan's army in addition to the 36 F-104 Starfighter jets it has promised. The key question, of course, is whether the Jordanian army will continue to stand behind Hussein in the face of mounting troubles. Should it even waver, the King's enemies would rush in for the kill...