Jordan's Future in Hands of Guerrillas
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Jam 19, 1970-13
World Labor Organization Forum Criticized as
LONDON (JTA) — Uneasy quiet say that the future of King Hus- the Liberation of Palestine and Being Exploited for 'Wild Charges Against Israel'
prevails in Jordan in the aftermath
of a crisis that almost toppled King
Hussein and left the future of his
rule in the hands of the Palestin-
ian commandos whom his troops
had been battling for five days.
The 34-year-old Hashemite mon-
arch was forced on Friday to
yield to commando demands for
the dismissal of his uncle, Maj.
Gen. Nasser Ben Jamil, comman-
der in chief of the Jordanian Army
and Maj. Gen. Zaid Ben-Shaker,
commander of the Third Armored
Division, who is Hussein's cousin.
The two officers were close advis-
ers to the king and had sought to
exercise firmer control over guer-
rilla operations against Israel from
Jordanian soil.
The guerrillas accused them of a-t
tacking commando units and order-
ing the shelling of refugee camps
housing guerrilla headquarters.
Only their ouster ended the fight-
ing in Amman and other Jordan-
ian towns which, according to
estimates caused 500 fatalities on
both sides, wounded considerably
more and left parts of the Jor-
danian capital in shambles. The
events of the week left King Hus•
sein in a weaker position than ever
since he assumed the throne on
May 2, 1953, two years after the
assassination of his grandfather,
King Abdullah. Apart from the
guerrillas he faced dissident elem-
ents within his own loyal Army.
A tank force advanced on Am-
man Friday after the king's
capitulation to guerrilla demands
but was stopped by a combina-
tion of. troops loyal to the king
and commandos. Shortly after-
wards unidentified gunmen, be -
lieved to be dissident officers,
fired on a motorcade carrying
Maj. Gen. Mashur Haditha, the
army chief of staff who was a
figure in negotiations between
the king and the guerrillas.
King Hussein appealed to his
army to "exercise full discipline
and obedience." Observers hare
believe Hussein would have been
overthrown during last week's
crisis had it not been for El Fatah,
the largest and most respected of
the Palestinian guerrilla groups.
El Fatah joined in the demand
for the ouster of Hussein's two
senior officers and for a free hand
in its operations against Israel, but
it apparently has no desire to see
the government overthrown at this
time, an event that could result in
chaos and precipitate action by
Israel.
(Abu Lotuf, an El Fatah leader,
whose real name is Farouk El
Kaddoumi, in an interview with the
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci in
this wek's Look magazine, said his
guerrilla group is not Communist.
"We have no gripe against oil
wells, only against Israel," he was
quoted saying. "We are not trying
to destroy capitalism, we are try-
ing to destroy Zionism in all of its
social, military, economic, cultural
and ideological forms.")
The guerrilla forces themselves
are split. El Fatah leader Yassir
Arafat faces a challenge from the
more militant Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, a guer-
rilla group that specializes in ter-
ror acts against Israeli civilians
and Israeli premises abroad. The
Popular Front is headed by Dr.
George Habash, a Palestinian
Arab Christian and a free-wheeling
Marxist described by some as a
fanatic. The Front's declared aim
is not only the destruction of Is-
rael but the overthrow of all Arab
governments including that of
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of
Egypt which Habash considers .a
"bourgeois regime."
The Front denounced a cease-
fire agreement concluded earlier
between Arafat and Hussein. Ara-
fat is believed to have disapproved
of the Popular Front's actions but
was reluctant to take measures
against them - in–the -interests of
guerrilla unity. • Observers here
sein now depends on Yassir Ara-
fat.
Pravda Critical Of Extreme
Guerrilla Groups; Says
They Aid Imperialist Plans
LONDON (JTA) — The party
newspaper Pravda sharply criti-
cized "irresponsible and adven-
turistic" elements among the Pa-
lestinian guerrillas for battling Jor-
danian troops and trying to over-
throw King Hussein. According to
a Pravda article Friday by Yevge-
ny Primakov, the guerrillas were
impairing "the difficult and com-
plex struggle conducted by the
Arab peoples to liquidate the af-
termath of the Israeli aggression."
Pravda accused the United States
of responsibilty for the clashes in
Jordan but also blamed extremist
guerrilla groups for "objectively
assisting" the "imperialist plans"
to split the Arabs.
Primakov's sympathies were with
El Fatah leader Yassir Arafat who
professes no ideology but will seem-
ingly accept aid from any source
to eliminate Israel. Observers here
said the Pravda commentary re-
flected Moscow's desire to control
events in the Mid East and not let
"irresponsible" Arabs — meaning
Arabs not under Moscow's direct
control—take matters into their
own hands.
A complex Arab political-mil-
itary organization that displays
the features of a shadow Palesti-
nian government-in-e xile has
emerged from the crisis in Jor-
dan. Its main element is a 27-
man central committee repre-
senting the various Palestinian
guerrilla groups which last Tues-
day elected Arafat as its chair-
man. Arafat is also chairman of
the Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation, an umbrella body em-
bracing the 10 commando groups
based in Jordan and Lebanon
that have been conducting guer-
rilla warfare against Israel.
The new central committee rep-
resents an expansion of the 11-
member PLO executive committee.
Its creation was decided on earlier
this month in Cairo at a session
of the Palestine . National Council.
The latter consists of 112 members
representing commandos, students,
workers and individual Palestinian
leaders in host countries. It meets
every six months and according to
observers, acts as a Palestinian
legislature in exile. The speed
with which the new central com-
mittee was formed has been at-
tributed to the virtual civil war
that broke out in Jordan a week
ago.
Commando strength in Lebanon
is placed at 4000 men, a third of
them El Fatah and a third mem-
bers of the Syrian-backed Al Sai-
qah guerrilla movement. The rest
belong to the Popular Front for
other smaller commando groups.
I The Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion which has acted in effect as
a government-in-exile for two mil-
lion displaced Palestinians since
1964, has nominal command over
a 12,000-man army of Palestinians.
But part of that force is under the
effective command of the Egyptian
army on the Suez Canal front,
another part under Iraqi command
in Jordan and a third is in Syria,
commanded by the Syrian Army.
GENEVA (JTA) — Aharon sion of Arab-Israel relations."
He then stated that "The people
Becker, a Knesset member and a
leader of the Israeli Labor Party
and Histadrut, declared Monday
that it was "regrettable that sev-
eral speakers have exploited" the
forum of the International Labor
organization "for the now-stereo-
typed wild charges against Israel."
Becker, representing the work-
ers' section of the Israeli delega-
tion to the ILO plenary conference
here, said: "I do not propose to
follow them into sterile polemics.
This is not the place for a discus-
France is about to agree to
deliver ground-to-air missiles to
Arab countries, most likely to
Lebanon, it was reported here.
Verna) ELECTRONIC
The missile referred to is the
"Crotale" which has a five mile
range and is effective against low-
flying aircraft, the report said.
Production is expected to begin
next year. The report, which could
not be confirmed, was said to have
originated with the Washington•
correspondent of Al Ahram, the
Cairo daily. A French newspaper
has suggested that the story was
"fed" to the Al • Ahram man by
"U.S. officials" in order to take
the sting out of the expected deci-
sion of the Nixon administration
to sell more combat jets to Israel.
Lebanon was not referred to soeci-
fically in the Al Ahram report.
GARAGE DOOR
of Israel want peace with their
neighbors" and that direct negoti-
ations are required to that end.
Becker also added sympathy for
the victims of the Peruvian earth-
quakes and the Romanian floods.
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Brezhnev Assails U.S.
for 'Aggressive Actions'
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The ;
United States and the Soviet Union
began Friday a detailed explora-
tion of the possibilities of resum-
ing United Nations mediation in
the Mid East. U.S. officials empha-
sized that the crisis in Jordan had
added to the urgency of such a
search for a political settlement.
Soviet Ambassador Anatole Dobry-
nin conferred with Joseph Sisco,
assistant secretary of state. The
meeting was arranged last week
after Dobrynin spoke with Secre-
tary of State William P. Rogers. 1
While there was no indication of
progress at Friday's Dobrynin-Sisco
meeting, the two officials would
meet again this week, according to
State Department officials. At the
same time it was reported from
Moscow that Leonid Brezhnev, Rus-
sia's Communist Party boss, ac-
cused the Nixon administration on
Friday of talking about peace while
carrying out "aggressive actions."
In a nationally televised Kremlin
speech, Brezhnev appeared ir-
ritated by Nixon administration ef-
forts to get the Soviet Union to
end military support for Vietna-
mese Communists and the Arabs
and to work for negotiated settle-
ments. He said "the defense capa-
bility of the attacked Arab states_
has been restored. Relations be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
Arab world have expanded consi-
derably and have grown stronger."
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