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Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai, a man often assailed in the Middle East as a U.S. puppet, held a press conference in Amman, and U.S. prestige took another nose dive. The manner of the U.S. arms delivery, with U.S. Ambassador Lester Mallory and a gaggle of Jordanian notables watching from a special dais alongside the Amman airfield runway, had made an "unfortunate impression" in his country, said Rifai. "We do not feel justified," he said, "in interfering in the internal affairs of Syria." After routinely thanking the U.S. for the arms, he went on to suggest that they...
Within hours, recriminations were flying. Egypt demanded the immediate recall of Jordan's Ambassador Abdul Monem Rifai, brother of the Deputy Premier, and Radio Cairo began broadcasting the soldier's taped "confession" that his superiors had sent him equipped with recorder to implicate Colonel Hillal falsely. Jordan retorted that Egyptian military attaches had in recent months been expelled or formally denounced by Libya, Tunisia, the Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, "which was Egypt's best ally." Was it possible that all these Egyptian attaches were innocent...
MUSTAFA EL-RIFAI...
...nimbleness. He dexterously avoided the bear hug embrace extended by Nasser, Saudi Arabia and Syria, who offered to replace the British subsidy. There is no question that for the moment Hussein is in charge. In his negotiations with the British, he did not even bother to keep Prime Minister Rifai informed. He sent Major General Radi Innab (whom he installed as Legion commander to replace Glubb) to negotiate an agreement with Syria to regard their borders with Israel as "one military frontier" in case of Israeli attack. Last week Hussein persuaded Whitehall to leave many of the Legion...
Goodbye with Tanks. Within the Legion a group of anti-British nationalists formed, similar to the "Free Officers" clique that overthrew Egypt's King Farouk. They found allies against Glubb in Premier Rifai and in Queen Mother Zaine, who has been collecting a $280,000 annual subsidy from Saudi Arabia's King Saud to work against the British position. Last week, with nationalist sentiment running high, the officers forced the young King to choose between General Glubb and his own throne...