Word: nabulsi
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While his security forces pressed a roundup of Communists and other elements suspected of promoting unrest, the young monarch got around to rejecting a resolution adopted three weeks ago by the government of leftist Suleiman Nabulsi for an exchange of envoys between Amman and Moscow...
Hussein fired Nabulsi April 10, shortly after the reseolution came out, and set off the chain of events which now finds the desert kingdom quiet under martial law. The King had asked Nabulsi's government to launch an anti-Communist propaganda campaign...
...person and with my forces.") The Jordanian Cabinet's taunting response was to propose establishing diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. For the young King, the moment had come. First summoning 50 top army officers to the palace and exacting loyalty pledges, he demanded the Cabinet's resignation. Nabulsi, a left-wing and anti-Western economist (educated at the American University of Beirut), submitted his resignation but confidently expected his leaving to stir up trouble. His coalition controlled the majority of seats in Jordan's Parliament; the explosive street crowds of Jordan were on his side...
...first the trial of strength was a standoff: three successive politicians tried to form a new Cabinet, and failed. After three days Nabulsi and his pro-Communist allies called out the mob. In Amman and the crowded cities of Palestinian Jordan, schoolboys started demonstrations in which thousands of refugees quickly joined. Some voices cried: "Down with the Eisenhower Doctrine." But most of the crowds shouted for the return of Nabulsi's Cabinet...
...moved to take over the government himself. He summoned his onetime friend, Abu Nuwar, to the palace. Then, as tanks and armored cars of the former Arab Legion rattled through the streets and ringed the palace, the young general was arrested and packed off by car for Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest. The palace announced that a "vile attempt" to take over the army had been frustrated, and Major General Ali el Hayari, 38, one of the top Arab Legion commanders in the days of the British Glubb Pasha, and a strong...