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...Jebel Tubeiq in the Jordanian desert, Sam Spiegel's Lawrence of Arabia company (with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Alec Guinness as Feisal) set up its camp under towering red dunes, 150 miles from the nearest oasis. Kerosene trucks brought water at a cost of about $3 a gallon, and Spiegel nearly turned into a pillar of salt when he learned that truck drivers were stopping en route to take showers. Then a couple of hundred Bedouins showed up one night, circled the camp, rattled their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests...
...life imprisonment. He even visited Amman Central Prison, released and embraced a onetime aide convicted of plotting. In a cream-colored Rolls-Royce prudently surrounded by a cordon of armored cars, the King stopped off at the Grand Hussein Mosque for lengthy prayers. He promised elections "soon," though one Jordanian predicted that they would result in a "75% pro-Nasser Parliament...
...Akhbar was less polite. "The engagement will lead to an acute crisis in Jordan, and a loss of popularity for Hussein in the Arab world. His engagement to a British girl shows Hussein is searching for a warmth and affection he did not find in the hearts of the Jordanian people." But at week's end the Jordanian people seemed to have responded to the King's appeal for understanding. When Hussein took Toni for a spin in his open Mercedes 300, they were greeted with approving shouts and cheers...
While the Amman radio beat the drums with promises of "big news" about the case (and Cairo Radio mumbled embarrassedly), Lieut. Madani had the run of the air force base where he was detained, eating at the officers' mess and sharing a room with a Jordanian air force officer in genial camaraderie. He seemed cheerfully prepared to cooperate, and the Jordanians happily scheduled a big conference where Madani was to be put on show as a Nasser spy in the sky. But early that afternoon he excused himself from the group of officers chatting at the club, explaining that...
...Cairo now had another tune to play. Nasser's radio hurled charges of murder, suggesting that King Hussein's brother and uncle personally ordered the shooting. When Jordan's embarrassed funeral cortege reached the Syrian frontier to turn the body back, U.A.R. guards swept the Jordanian wreaths into the roadside dust. In Damascus and Cairo the U.A.R.'s propagandists and patriots staged a triumphant demonstration for the boy who, rather than embarrass his country, had chosen death...