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Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai, a man often assailed in the Middle East as a U.S. puppet, held a press conference in Amman, and U.S. prestige took another nose dive. The manner of the U.S. arms delivery, with U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory and a gaggle of Jordanian notables watching from a special dais alongside the Amman airfield runway, had made an "unfortunate impression" in his country, said Rifai. "We do not feel justified," he said, "in interfering in the internal affairs of Syria." After routinely thanking the U.S. for the arms, he went on to suggest that they...
...assassination "plot," as both sides told it, was an old-fashioned Levantine conspiracy complicated by 20th century gadgetry. According to the Jordan account, a Jordanian sergeant was approached by the Egyptian and offered money to do a killing. The soldier loyally disclosed the plot to the chief of staff of the Jordan army, who told him to pretend to go along with the attache, but to take a miniature recording machine with him. At the soldier's next meeting at the Egyptian embassy, the attache grabbed the sergeant, took the recorder and his service revolver from him. (This proved...
...only of the U.S.'s defenses but of the perils and opportunities of cold war; e.g., last summer President Eisenhower secretly sent Anderson to the Middle East to pave the way for King Saud's U.S. visit, which in turn paid massive premiums during the recent Jordanian crisis...
...accusation was too much for Jordan's 21-year-old King Hussein, whose reply was even hotter. "Syrian forces encircled towns in northern Jordan at the moment of the plot against the government," answered the Jordanians, "lent assistance to Communist leaders" and "armed and largely paid criminals to assassinate certain personalities in Jordanian territory; 160 of these criminals, provided with Czech arms, have been arrested." Naturally, Jordan continued, it was bringing these charges not "to embitter relations between Arabs," but just to help "Syrian public opinion to guard against its deceitful hypocritical leaders...
Jordan's all-night curfew was lifted last week for a macabre purpose-to permit citizens to witness and draw the moral from the hanging of three Jordanian National Guardsmen and a street vendor...