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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training camp of Al Fatah, the largest fedayeen group, killing nine men, its leaders alerted 7,000 armed fedayeen to stand by to move in on Amman...
Hussein insisted on maintaining his authority. The fedayeen demanded an end to the curfew, and freedom of movement. The standoff came to an end when Sheik Akif al-Faiz, Minister of Communications and leader of the largest Bedouin tribe, threatened to withdraw his support if the king used Bedouin troops against the fedayeen. Hussein, under pressure as well from Saudi Arabia, which subsidizes Jordan's budget, promised to lift the curfew and to allow the fedayeen to keep their arms. In turn, they promised to keep their armed men off the streets of Amman...
...effect of separating yourself from the earth mechanically and then letting go of the machine that was holding you away is almost exactly like the effect on a small thumbtack of the largest, most powerful magnet you've ever seen, at a fair or anywhere. You come screaming down to the ground at speeds that are constantly increasing themselves until they have you going much faster than you've ever known anything to move. And remember, when you started out, you, unlike the thumbtack, were not even so far away from what's pulling you in that you could...
Nine thousand student tickets will be issued for The Game--"the largest amount by far at least in my seven years in the ticket office," according to Page...
...will face a difficult dilemma. Many economists reason that the nation has moved into a new era, in which its industrial efficiency no longer provides a cushion against lower wage rates abroad. Yet if the U.S. substantially reduces the comparatively free access other countries enjoy to the world's largest market, it risks a prosperity-wrecking shrinkage in world trade. If the U.S. cooled its heated domestic economy enough to bring prices in line with those of foreign goods, the resulting unemployment would aggravate today's urban crisis and make U.S. companies less enticing to foreign investors...