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Meanwhile, relations between the Arab lands-never harmonious at best -were severely strained by the assassination of Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell in Cairo. The United Nations was also alive with rancor as debate got under way on an Egyptian-sponsored attempt to force Israel to reopen talks under U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring...
...principal ally. The same could hardly be said of the Arab world last week. Palestinians and their supporters greeted the news of Tell's murder by gunmen believed to be members of an offshoot of Al-Fatah, the principal guerrilla group, with jubilation. They blamed the Jordanian Premier, King Hussein's principal adviser, for the crackdown in the past year that emasculated the fedayeen as a political power. "Have you heard the good news?" an Arab called to TIME Jerusalem Correspondent Marsh Clark on the Via Dolorosa...
...year ago, a radical guerrilla organization called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine brusquely commanded the world's attention by hijacking four commercial airliners and holding hundreds of passengers hostage in the blazing Jordanian desert. That taste of glory was short-lived. Determined to crush not only the P.F.L.P. but all the freewheeling guerrilla groups, King Hussein and his army chased them out of Amman and penned them in in a mountainous area near the Syrian border. Two months ago, 30,000 royal troops, mostly Bedouins, attacked again and wiped out that last guerrilla pocket. The fedayeen...
...Common Man. Habash was sharply critical of Al-Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, not only for accepting a Saudi subsidy but also for misreading Hussein's intentions last September. "The big error," said Habash, "was that certain commando groups-I am speaking of Fatah-did not recognize that the Jordanian regime is reactionary and ordered by American imperialism. Because Jordan is Arab and because Hussein is an Arab name, they thought he would not attack. But the threat was exactly like the danger we face from Israel. There is no difference between Hussein and Moshe Dayan...
Last week the crackle of machine-gun fire and the dull thud of mortars rent the still, dry air along the border. Rival communiqués were, as customary, completely contradictory. According to Damascus, a Jordanian armored unit raked a Syrian observation post with machine-gun fire; in retaliation, Syrian gunners destroyed five Jordanian tanks. According to Amman, an "unidentified force" started the action, and Jordan retaliated by destroying five Syrian tanks, a gun position, and an observation post. In any event, by week's end Syria had broken relations with Jordan, following similar action taken by Libya...