Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
...fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people." He demanded that Nabulsi purge his Cabinet of its three most notorious pro-Communist members. The Cabinet replied by voting to establish diplomatic relations with "our good friend the Soviet Union." The Palestinian leftists figured that they had Hussein licked-not so much because they dominated Parliament, controlled the streets and enjoyed the covert cooperation of young Army Chief Ali Abu Nuwar, but because Nasser, the overlord of Arab nationalism, was on their side...
...Jordan, with censorship lifted, came the story of how 21-year-old King Hussein snatched control of his desert kingdom from under the noses of the Redlined leaders of the Palestinian Arabs, who outnumber his Bedouins two to one. It was a wild story that combined the dash of a Latin American army coup with the wile of an Arabian Nights adventure...
...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...
...Hussein Fahkri Khalidi, 61-year-old Palestinian refugee who has shown leanings toward the West, was named prime minister in a seven-man Cabinet...