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...states that have often attacked him. To the east is Iraq, where his Hashemite cousin, King Feisal, was killed and the monarchy abolished in 1958. To the north is rabid, leftist Syria, which last sent an assassination team out to kill him in May and blew up a Jordanian border post only a week before the war began. To the west is Israel, with which Jordan has a longer border than any Arab country. The divisions between the conservative, pro-Western Hussein and the Arab left led by Egypt's President Nasser are so fundamental that...
...hard with the muscles of a sportsman. He is an inveterate hunter, horseman, scuba diver and deep-sea fisherman. He introduced water-skiing to Jordan, then took up kiting. Above all, he loves speed, and at the wheel of his silver Porsche 911 is usually a winner in Jordanian sports-car events. To the horror of his security men, he is also addicted to motorcycle racing and free-fall parachute jumping. Before the Israelis knocked out his air force, his favorite pastime of all was careening around the sky in a Hawker Hunter jet, practicing aerobatics at nearly 600 m.p.h...
...first time in 19 years, Jerusalem was a single city. Acting with undisguised pleasure, the Israeli parliament rushed through the legislative formalities to reunify the Jordanian half with the Jerusalem of the Jews. Within hours, all the barricades began to come down. The barbed wire was stripped away from the rubble-strewn stretch that once had been no man's land...
Across the demolished barriers and through the Mandelbaum Gate streamed thousands of Arabs and Jews. Old enemies were unexpectedly anxious to fraternize; long-divided friends were reunited. Flowing Arab kaffiyehs appeared in kosher cafes, and Hebrew was heard in the ancient bookstores near the Damascus Gate. Cars bearing Jordanian and Israeli license plates honked happily in monumental traffic jams. Israeli and Jordanian police, working side by side, had all they could do to keep the surging throngs of pedestrians safely on the sidewalks, and their job was made no easier by emotional Arabs who insisted on embracing each other...
Work for Mukhtars. Despite all the tensions, throughout most of the Israeli-occupied areas of Jordan life was returning to normal. The governor of what had once been Jordanian Jerusalem was out of a job, and the mayor of Jericho had fled to Amman; the mayors and mukhtars of more than 50 other towns were back at their desks, and Arab police were back on their beats...