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...commandos decided to disrupt the visit to protest U.S. aid to Israel, and the King apparently chose not to stop them. Only a few days earlier, he had vetoed a fedayeen plan to bombard the Israeli seaport of Elath while that city was crowded with Passover tourists, and ordered Jordanian troops to disarm 14 rockets the guerrillas were to have used. The Sisco visit offered Hussein an opportunity to patch things up with the guerrillas by not interfering with their plans...
Sisco, who was in Jerusalem meeting Israeli officials, decided to "defer" his Jordanian visit. At the same time, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Harrison M. Symmes delivered a stinging note to the Amman government, protesting its failure to protect U.S. property and demanding prompt and full compensation. Jordan responded by demanding the recall of Symmes, a veteran foreign service officer who has spent 23 years in Arab countries. From Jerusalem Sisco traveled via Nicosia to Beirut, where anti-American students set the mood for his visit by throwing stones at the U.S. embassy, and then Teheran, the next scheduled stops after...
...units across the canal, and reported killing eight men while losing two. Israeli regulars and Arab guerrillas fought a series of skirmishes along Israel's border with both Lebanon and Syria. Israel admitted suffering two dead and 13 wounded but claimed seven more enemy casualties. Twice on the Jordanian front, Israelis spotted guerrilla ambushes and broke them up with shellfire...
...said King David to his downcast general, Joab, during a battle with the Ammonites for the city that is today the Jordanian capital of Amman. And so said Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week in similar circumstances. Dayan was in the port city of Eilat, surveying the capsized hulk of an Israeli supply ship sunk by Egyptian limpet mines, when he quoted the Second Book of Samuel. Hours later, as if in response to his exhortation, Israeli airmen over the Gulf of Suez sank an Egyptian mine layer that normally carries a crew...
...Shadwan. The Israelis said that they had lost three killed and six wounded, while killing 19 Egyptians and taking 62 prisoners; they added that two Egyptian torpedo boats-which normally carry 20 men each-had been sunk without a trace of survivors. In the 20-hour attack on the Jordanian badlands the Israelis reported killing five Al-Fatah commandos without suffering any casualties. In Amman, however, estimates of Israeli deaths ranged from twelve...