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Into Jordan's Amman International Airport last week flew an unaccustomed visitor: King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, whose father's desert warriors drove Jordan's Hashemite dynasty out of Arabia 40 years ago. Last week the family feud was forgotten as the Jordanian army boomed out a 21-gun salute, and Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein exchanged embraces and bussed one another warmly on each cheek...
...normal work day; but in half-Christian Lebanon and Western-influenced Syria and Turkey, many Moslem businessmen close down on Friday only long enough to visit their mosques, although they shut down completely on Sunday. Jordan's government offices in Amman close on Friday, but in Jordanian Jerusalem, one of Christianity's most holy places, Sunday is generally observed as the day of rest...
...programs on Iraq and Sudan television. Lebanon's Parliament stood five minutes in silent tribute. Kuwait radiomen wept over the air as they described his funeral. Behind his flag-draped casket walked both wailing women and men in tears. They weren't all Kuwaitis. Sobbed a visiting Jordanian: "I wish it had been me who had to die instead...
While the Arabs bickered, Israel struck. Angered at the increasing incursions of a newly organized secret Arab commando outfit known as "Asifa" (storm troopers), the Israeli army last week sent 50 of its own commandos across the border. The Israeli raiders entered three Jordanian towns, hastily evacuated civilians, then blew up gas stations, farmhouses and an abandoned mill. More raids lay ahead, hinted the Israeli radio, unless Asifa incursions were brought...
...Judas "who should be immediately executed." Mobs blossomed in the streets of half a dozen Arab capitals. In Cairo, 20,000 students charged across the Nile bridge to Gezira Island and tried to burn down the Tunisian embassy. In Jerusalem, Bourguiba Street was hastily renamed by Jordanian authorities. In Baghdad, even resident Tunisian students joined the anti-Bourguiba demonstrations...