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Jordan refused, so on the night of Jan. 23, two well-armed Israeli platoons (50 men)' crossed 1,200 yards into Jordan. They illuminated the quiet village of Falama with Very lights, then pounded it with Browning machine-gun fire and hand grenades for 90 minutes before Jordanian national guardsmen forced them to withdraw, leaving one uniformed Israeli dead. Six nights later, Israeli units hit Falama again. They blew open its protective barbed wire and clobbered it with mortars for almost three hours in one of the biggest attacks since the war's end. Ten Arabs were wounded...
...counters would be empty and the cash register full of those beautiful old Palestinian pounds. Today I've got a store full of goods, one clerk who has nothing to do but talk politics with his cousin-and the cash register hasn't got a dozen Jordanian dinars...
Last week, son Talal, now King of Jordan, climbed down from a plane at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's seat of government, and a faltering old man hobbled over to embrace him. The old man was Ibn Saud. A military band boomed out the Jordanian national anthem and 21 guns cracked a salute. Hashemite and hated enemy had got together. That evening, 71-year-old Ibn Saud, father of more than 30 living sons, gave one of the most magnificent dinners of his life. Afterward, the one-eyed old lion of the desert and the gloomy, unstable King of Jordan...
...sixties, Abdullah has finally become a king like his younger brother, the late great Feisal of Iraq. In Amman last week rumors circulated that Trans-Jordanian independence was only the beginning. Abdullah wanted a full-time job; he hoped to unite Trans-Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and part of Palestine into a "Greater Syria...