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Outside of town, meantime, troops barricaded the main highway and waited for the Jordanian soldiers they knew would be rushing over from nearby Hebron. Sure enough, 20 truckloads soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back...
...Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars in the field of archaeology, the school came to secular fame only in 1949, when the Jordanian government entrusted it with collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls. One of its professors, French Dominican Roland de Vaux, is head of the international committee translating the scrolls into modern languages. De Vaux also headed the 36 scholars who prepared the Bible de Jérusalem, the first translation to take advantage...
...about Jordan [July 8] is pathetically misinformed and sensational. The strength of Jordan is well known. In connection with the recent stupid Nasserite propaganda campaign, King Hussein did not bother to alert military units or order top intelligence operatives to cancel trips abroad. Not a single leaflet appeared in Jordanian army barracks, nor did the refugees pay any serious attention to the vicious personal attacks on the royal family. The people and the government take their own works too seriously to have time for this polemical nonsense, and the throne in Jordan has proved a symbol of unity...
...Nasser, who is none too happy with Hussein's recent warmth toward Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, Nasser's bitterest Arab enemy. Wrote Cairo's semiofficial Al Goumhouria: "The Palestine Liberation Organization has no alternative but to enter a battle to the finish with the Jordanian ruler...
Command Performance. When leaflets began to appear in Jordanian army barracks demanding Hussein's abdication, the King decided it was time to act. He alerted military units and ordered top intelligence operatives to cancel trips abroad. To woo the refugees, he offered them permanent settlement in Jordan and announced that Palestinians living abroad would no longer need visas to enter Jordan. Into Hussein's palace last week streamed delegations of Jordanian notables to pledge their loyalty to the crown. It was a command performance: some who did not show up have been arrested. There was no doubt about...