Word: jordanian
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...young King was painfully learning, the mob is a member without portfolio in any Jordanian government today...
...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...
...alarm, King Hussein fired his new government just 72 hours after it had taken office, and dissolved Parliament. But instead of mollifying the rioters, his action seemed to embolden them. The U.S. consulate in the Jordanian half of Jerusalem was attacked for a second time in a week. The American flag was hauled down from a 30-ft. pole and trampled in the streets. Then the mob swarmed on the French consulate; the consul held off the crowd with a submachine gun. At the Turkish consulate, a 14-year-old boy was killed in the garden, and a 16-year...
Britain sent its top soldier, General Sir Gerald Templer, to Jordan with a tempting proposition: if Jordan would join the Baghdad pact, with Turkey. Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. Britain would boost its aid program (currently $24 million a year), replace the present Anglo-Jordanian treaty with a new one more favorable to Jordan, and increase the size and armored strength of Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion, whose 20,000 men are the best Arab troops in the Middle East...
Tests of Authenticity. As soon as a respite in Arab-Israeli war permitted, a French Dominican priest, Pèe Roland de Vaux of the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique null in old Jerusalem, and English-born G. Lankester Harding, director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, visited the cave, which was in Jordan in an area called Khirbet Qumrân (stone ruin). They found hundreds of additional manuscript fragments and pieces of broken pottery, later discovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Altogether, the manuscripts included parts...