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Psychoneurosis Must Go! But then the Arabs were heard from. On the second day of the General Assembly debate, new Jordanian Delegate Abdul Monem Rifai, brother to Jordanian Premier Samir el Rifai, did his best to pull the rug out from under one of the essential elements in any Middle East settlement. Jordan, declared Rifai, was flatly opposed to "the dispatch of U.N. forces or U.N. observers to be stationed on Jordan territory." But since young King Hussein's government would almost surely collapse overnight without foreign support, the question...
...Western Lebanon, newspapers were quick to praise the unity move. In Jordan, where rabidly Arab-nationalist Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the population, wily Strongman Samir Rifai publicly proclaimed: "We support every effort to achieve this sort of union," then dashed for Saudi Arabia to urge King Saud to meet with Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's King Feisal to form a counter-federation of the three kingdoms. Feisal was willing, but Saud...
Last week, in a refinement that included names, time and places, Nasser's Voice of the Arabs began broadcasting a story that Jordan's Foreign Minister Samir Rifai had met secretly last September with Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir near the Jordanian town of Nablus, and with King Hussein's full approval arranged to resettle Jordan's 500,000 refugees in return for $30 million that the U.S. would make available through Israel. "They will annihilate him," shrilled the Voice of the Arabs, and Cairo's newspaper...
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...
...Arab zones of Palestine when the British withdraw. Some of his Arab neighbors (especially Syria, which resents Abdullah's aspirations to rule a Greater Syria) suspected that, once installed, Abdullah's Legionnaires would stay in Palestine. Abdullah's delegate to the League, Prime Minister Samir Rifai, chain-smoked nervously through last week's meetings...