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...sprawling refugee camps that the guerrilla movement flourished-and began undermining the government. Other Arabs, to keep on the good side of the fedayeen, supported them and ignored Hussein's problem. Nevertheless, having decided on a showdown, Hussein was badly advised by army leaders under Field Marshal Habes Majali. They assured the King that the fighting would be wrapped up in 24 hours at the most. How wrong they were quickly became evident in Amman (once named Philadelphia, or City of Brotherly Love, by conquering Greeks...
...battle, Amman's 600,000 residents endured a week of agony. Most took refuge in their cellars, but many were buried alive when artillery began to pound the city. Quickly, electricity failed and the water supply was cut off. Though city dwellers were running out of food, Majali threatened that anyone found out of doors would be shot on sight. The few who ventured out found the streets cluttered with wrecked vehicles and littered with land mines...
...Cabinet. The King appointed a new Cabinet made up of eleven army officers and headed by Brigadier General Mohammed Daoud, 50, as Premier. More important, he dusted off a measure that was hurriedly enacted during the 1967 war with Israel and declared martial law. Hussein appointed Field Marshal Habes Majali, a 57-year-old Bedouin officer, as commander in chief of the army as well as military governor of Jordan...
Hussein's orders were terse. The new government was "to act immediately to undo hostile planning and restore matters as they should be." "Hostile forces," the King added, had "undermined national unity, shaken the armed forces, dynamited their military spirit and discipline, and created a state of despair." At Majali's command, the Jordanian army was soon moving tanks and artillery into Amman...
Died. Hazza Majali, 44, pro-Western Premier of Jordan for the past 16 months, a tent-dwelling Bedouin chieftain's son and a Syrian University lawyer; in a bomb explosion; in Amman, Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS...