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Official forbearance eventually gave way under the pressure of the press. Jordanian troops escorting what was soon dubbed "the papalcade" eventually resorted to muscle, swagger sticks and gun butts to keep order in the unholy mess. Cesidio Lolli, sedate papal diarist for L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, lost his temper after a manhandling by Arab Legionnaires. "You may be the soldiers of Herod," he snapped, "but please remember that I am not a Christian infant...
...Jordan, where Jesus had been baptized by John the Baptist. Photographers squirmed through the guarding cordons and jostled the Pope as he walked from his car to the river bank. Hovering over the scene, as a kind of airborne royal patrolman, was Hussein, at the controls of a Jordanian helicopter...
...Dramatic." The two churchmen will meet on the morning of Jan. 6-a date celebrated by both Rome and most of Orthodoxy as the Feast of the Epiphany. The site, proposed by the Vatican, will be the residence of the apostolic delegate in Jordanian Jerusalem. Rome ruled out any confrontation at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher as "too dramatic," although the two men may go there later to join in common prayer. It is expected that the Pope and Athenagoras will talk for about an hour and exchange gifts...
With his retinue of about 30 clerics and guards, Pope Paul will leave Italy early on Jan. 4 by a leased Alitalia DC-8, which will fly around Israel and get an escort of Jordanian Air Force fighter planes before setting down at Amman around noon. Despite the personal character of his trip, the Pope will have to accept the pomp of welcome due to a head of state: King Hussein will be on hand to greet him, and cannons will roar out a 21-gun salute...
Married. Prince Mohammed 24 younger brother of Jordan's King Hussein; and Ferial Farid Irshed, 19, daughter of a wealthy Jordanian landowner ma Moslem ceremony at Amman's Zahran Palace, in celebration of which Hussein ordered the release of 40 political prisoners...