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...most vigorous of the guerrilla organizations, occupied Amman's two largest hotels and held 77 foreign guests hostage. A truce was arranged in which Hussein made most of the concessions, but it lasted only until September, when the P.F.L.P. hijacked three airliners, blew them up in the Jordanian desert, and openly challenged the army. This time Hussein, decrying the renewed fighting as a "shame to the Arab people," resolved to crush the guerrillas and succeeded...
Hussein is also free to indulge in old pastimes. The King, an accomplished pilot, recently tried out the controls of the first Boeing 707 jet acquired by Royal Jordanian Airlines. He water-skis at Aqaba, tools around on a shiny motorcycle, and sends Princess Muna off every few months to refurbish her wardrobe in Paris and London. With the fedayeen defanged, he is preoccupied with international rather than domestic problems, most notably the Arab-Israeli conflict. In recent months, the world's attention has focused on efforts to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli accommodation over the Suez Canal. Such...
...Palestine quickly took "full responsibility." It was the Front, a Marxist Arab guerrilla group, that held 357 hostages at various times in Jordan last year and blew up four skyjacked jetliners. Its spokesmen in Beirut insisted that the speedboat had traveled a full 1,300 miles from the Jordanian port of Aqaba to carry out the attack, but this seems highly unlikely. More probably, the boat sailed from islands around Bab el Mandeb controlled by the radical government of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (which was Southern Yemen until a name change six months...
...thought, when I contributed the title of this paper some months ago, that I was going to draw most of my insights from the battlefield. I was curious about the limits in war, about truces and how to maintain them, about escalation and de-escalation. I thought Israeli-Jordanian activity might offer an analogy for student-faculty activity. I did not mainly have guerrilla warfare in mind...
...Jerusalem would remain an Israeli city. But Jerusalem Arabs would keep their Jordanian citizenship, and would have a separate city council with a voice in municipal affairs. Moslem holy places in Jerusalem would be granted extraterritorial status by the Israelis, and King Hussein would fly the Jordanian flag over them...