Word: nablus
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Said el Mufti, an old-line conservative politician, was assigned to form a new Cabinet, and the palace announced hopefully: "Things are again normal." For the moment at least, Hussein had won the army. But in Jerusalem, Nablus, and Ramallah, huge crowds paraded through the streets shouting: "Down with the King." In Ramallah crowds broke into the radio station and halted a broadcast of King Hussein's speech of thanks to the army...
...Nasser parties swept last October's parliamentary elections. Nabulsi refused the king's demand for his resignation and instead proclaimed that the Cabinet had voted to establish diplomatic relations with "our loyal friend, the Soviet Union." In a speech at his refugee-crammed home town of Nablus, he defended what he called his "positive neutralism." Said Nabulsi: "We are with the East when the East is with us. We are not with the West because the West cannot be with us. The West wants to colonize and exploit...
...They were clues to buried treasure-and on a Fort Knox scale. Two hundred tons of gold and silver-were mentioned as well as a considerable cache of incense in about 60 separate hoards scattered over a 50-mile-long area from Hebron to Mount Gerizim, near Nablus...
...yelling: "Long live Hussein, our savior!" and "Long live the man who will lead us against Israel!" At Damiya police had to rescue him from his shrieking worshipers, who whirled him from his car and started to carry him off. Arriving at the ancient hill town of Nablus, where Jesus once talked by the well with the adulterous woman of Samaria, the King said what the audience had come to hear: "We shall regain what was lost of our fatherland, with God's help...
Arab crowds in Amman, Nablus and Old Jerusalem cried for arms to "avenge ourselves." Jordan begged her fellow Arab League states for troops, planes and tanks. John Bagot Glubb, British commander of Jordan's crack 15,000-man Arab Legion, the strongest force in the Arab world, announced a shoot-on-sight order directed at any Israeli cau^it in Jordan. But further he would not go, though Jordanian Deputies demanded retaliation. Said Glubb: "The Jews of Israel must be as well aware as anyone else who knows the Arab world that every one of the survivors of such...