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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Tension Reported in Jordan Over PLO

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
surge of political tension,
punctuated by violence and
suspected assassinations,
was reported from Jordan.

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The tension is believed to
stem from a deep division of
opinion between King Hus-
sein and his heir apparand
and brother, Crown Prince
Hassan, regarding Jordan's
steady drift towards the re-
jectionist group of Arab
states led by Iraq and Syria.
While Hussein has been
pushing in this direction
ever since Camp David,
Hassan is growing more and
more unhappy with it —
and he is supported by sig-
nificant sections of the offi-
_ cer corps and of the Jorda-
nian indigenous (as opposed
to Palestinian) elite.
Clashes on Amman
University's campus re-
cently between Palesti-
nian and other students
are explained as a reflec-
tion of the tension in the
governing echelons.
Haaretz carried a report
compiled by Arab affairs
monitor Oded Zarai of the
various stories and rumors
of growiiig unrest in the
Hashemite kingdom.
The Haaretz headline
said the U.S. was planning
for the evacuation of Ameri-
can citizens and companies
from Jordan. The story it-
self reported that the U.S.
Embassy in Amman had
been angrily questioned
about this by the Jordanian
government and had re-
sponded that the con-
tingency plaits were merely
routine and were not con-
nected to any particular
political situation.
-The Haaretz report cited
Jordanians visiting the
West Bank, and West Ban-
kers known for their close
ties with the royal house, to
authenticate the signs of
tension in the neighboring
state.

A group of prominent
West Bankers protested
to Amman last week at
the method by which
police had broken up the
campus demonstrations
— apparently because in-
juries were sustained by
Palestinian students.

Jordanian travelers re-
ported that prices on the
Amman stock exchange
were falling and that key
families involved in com-
merce were moving funds
out of the country.
Meanwhile, the not-
entirely-reliable Phalan-

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gist radio station in Leba-
non reported that a Palesti-
nian aeronatical engineer
had been arrested in Jordan
on 'suspicion of trying to
plant a bomb aboard the
King's plane as it was about
to fly Hussein to Vienna. As
a result, security had been
tightened on all Alia Air-
line flights, the radio said.
The Haaretz report also
discussed two mysterious
recent accidenth in Amman
in which high-level political
allies of Hassan had met an
untimely death. In one,
Sheriff Nasser Ben-Jamil,
an uncle of the King, and
passionate foe of the PLO,
lost control of his car and
crashed to his death. "There
are rumors rife in court cir-
cles," according to the re-
port, "that the car was tam-
pered with."
In the other incident,
the chief of internal secu-
rity, another close sup-
porter of Hassan was kil-
led at Amman Airport on
his return from Qatar. A
brief official statement
said only that his car had
collided with another ve-
hicle.
There has also been a
spate of explosions in
Amman in recent weeks,

The Sensati7 .11114‘

which
government
authorities there have at-
tributed to "Zionist agents."
In a related development,
Hussein has lashed out at
American's role in the
Mideast and indicated he'll
side with the Soviets in fu-
ture peace efforts.

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