Word: jordanian
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...furious outburst from his Damascus balcony, Nasser abruptly ended his brief truce with the rival Arab Federation (Iraq and Jordan). Evidently Nasser was angered by the Iraqi and Jordanian foreign ministers' attempts to line up Saudi Arabia's King Saud for their union...
...Abdullah, who was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab in 1951). Radio Moscow gleefully joined Nasser's chorus, described Hussein as "a friend of the bitterest enemies of the Arab world-the U.S., Britain and Turkey." The Cairo attacks were so patently absurd that Amman newspapers began publishing excerpts: "Jordanian Army Refuses Open Fire on Refugees" and "Demonstrations Being Staged Everywhere in Jordan." There were no demonstrations, as every refugee could plainly...
Egyptian authorities refused to let a Jordan airliner land in Cairo with its 20 passengers, including a seven-man Jordan delegation to an Arab educational conference, a Jordanian airline spokesman charged in Amman...
...refinement that included names, time and places, Nasser's Voice of the Arabs began broadcasting a story that Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai had met secretly last September with Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir near the Jordanian town of Nablus, and with King Hussein's full approval arranged to resettle Jordan's 500,000 refugees in return for $30 million that the U.S. would make available through Israel. "They will annihilate him," shrilled the Voice of the Arabs, and Cairo's newspaper ; Al Shaab urged...
...which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued by a $20 million deficit in his army budget and under fire for his close involvement with the U.S., nervously shot off last week to an oil pumping station on the Iraqi-Jordanian border to ask the aid of his royal cousin, King Feisal of Iraq. Arabia's King Saud, even as he conferred with Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun over ways and means of restoring reason to the aroused Arab nationalists, felt obliged to have his embassies through...