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...King informed the White House that the proposed timing of his trip would make it seem as if he were being drawn into the peace process. West Bankers these days would not mind if that were the case. Although they felt neglected and suppressed during the 19 years of Jordanian rule (1948-67), they feel that the King has mellowed somewhat, and they welcome the financial aid he gives to the West Bank ($70 million last year...
...acre tract of fertile farm land near Jenin. But these days he travels from his office in Amman to the West Bank only once a year to avoid the "humiliating experience" of being stripped at the Allenby Bridge checkpoint. Staunchly pro-American, Irsheid was a member of the Jordanian Parliament when the West Bank was under Amman's rule; he is disenchanted with what he calls a "two-faced American policy that talks of human rights while providing weapons for the Israeli occupation." Palestinians, he adds, "feel more and more that they are fighting America and not just Israel...
Schilling is a compulsive and accomplished killer, but not a very tidy one. En route to Zurich he stops over in Paris to knock off the Jordanian Ambassador. There he makes the mistake of killing a CIA operative. A doughty, Swiss-based CIA man known only as Guthrie sets out to avenge his colleague. The task might be insuperable, save for the superable Marie-Christine Lemarchand, an elegant young Parisienne who had been the hit man's sometime mistress. She provides Guthrie with a psychological profile of the killer and some cryptic notes he has left in the safe...
...back as 1969. Fearful that the new shekels would depreciate as rapidly as the old pounds, Israelis rejected Hurvitz's pleas not to embark on "a buying spree" and converged on Arab money-changers in Israel to convert the new currency into American dollars, British sterling and even Jordanian dinars...
What started out as an imminent Jordanian collapse was beginning to reverse itself. Tuesday, Sept. 22, brought good news. The Jordanians, emboldened by our moves and by the fact that the Syrian air force (under a general named Hafez Assad) pointedly stayed out of combat, were beginning to attack Syrian tanks around Irbid from the air. The estimate was that Syria had lost 120 tanks. The Iraqi forces [17,000 of them were still encamped in east Jordan three years after the Six-Day War that had brought them there] remained inactive. Egypt informed us that the Soviets had made...