ISRAEL: FIGHTING TERROR WITH TERROR

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'e-au thor of the book. "Fedayecn:
Guerrillas Against Israel," Rothstchi re-
-catIy revisited Israel.
SRAEL has been in an angry,
vengeful mood since the guerrilla
attack on its athletes at Munich last
month. The hawks in the Cabinet-
Premier Golda Mein, Itefense Minister
Moshe Da;;an, Transsport. Minister Sln-
mon Peres, Police 'Minister Shlonto
Hillel and Minister E'ithouI Portfolio
Israel Galili-now have the upper
]rand over the more dovish element,
which includes Foreign Minister Abba
Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Allen and
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir.
At present, Israeli leaders stress
their determination to strike at the
guerrillas in all possible ''legal' mays,
such as reprisal raids against. fedayeen
bases in Lebanon and Jordan. But
within Israeli intelligence and military
circles, plans are being made for selec-
tive counterterror reprisals, both in
Arab countries and in Eurrope,
In the more than two decades of the
Arab-Israel conflict, both sides have
honored a kind of gentiemen's agree-
ment not to go after each other's lead-
ers. Thus, the Egyptians never tried to
kill Premier Ben-Gurion and Israel rc
trained from attempts on President.,
grasser's Iife. But the fedayeen have
never abided by any kind oI unspoken
agreement with Israel. The Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
mce even tried to assassinate Fen-Gur-
ion in Sweden. Now the fcda'Vicen lead-
!rs are particularly vulnerable to Is-
raeli reprisals, The Popular Front
tpoheinan, poet and novelist Ghasan
Khanafani, was killed by a booby trap
rigged to his car shortly after boasting
:hat the Front was responsible for the
Lydda airport massacre of May 30. his
successor was blinded by an exploding
2ackage. Other fedayeett leaders, in-
;luding Yasir Arafat, have been tar-
pts in the past.
Informed Israeli sources say, how-
ever, that these past attempts were
esultory. Now the best minds of the
14osad (the Israeli central intelligence
thence), the Shin Bet (the agency re-
iponsible for internal security, equiva-
.ent to the FBI), and army intelligence
re considering how best to destroy
the fedayeen leadership,
High on the assassination list. of the
4losad is Salah halal, 31 known other-
wise by the I,Om de guerre Abu Ayad,
me basis for specific missions.
Sharing a priority plq,,ee on Israeli
intelligence's tat are two other Black
September commanders, At Salame,
the son of Hassan Salame, an Arab
gang leader and Nazi sympathizer dur-
ing the British Mandate in Palestine,
and Razi ci Iu:,-cini, son of Ahdul
Khadcr, an Aral, fighter who died in
the 1948 war with Israel.
The, War 5 covet to Europe
LTI-IOUGFI BEIRUT is the center
of Fatah and its affiliate, Black
September, marry fedayeen operatives
are active in Europe, where Arab em-
bassies provide sanctuary and diplo-
matic passports. An official at the
Yemen embassy in Geneva, Daoud
Darakat, is believed to have given
Black September cover during the
Munich operation, and some terrorists
now being sought by Dutch and
Belgian police are thought to be hid-
ing in various Arab embassies in Eu-
rope.
One of the questions now being dis-
cussed by Israeli intelligence and mil:
tary leaders is whether or not to attack
Arab embassies abroad that have aided
fedayeen. The debate revolves on
whether the attacks Should be massive
or selective. The prevailing, view re-
portedly is that counterterror must be
selective and precise, striking only at
the guilty and avoiding injury to the
innocent. Whatever is clone, of course,
Israel will not take public responsibil-
ity.
The recent: bombing; of a Palestine
Liberation Organization library and
bookstore in Paris was carried out by a
group calling itself the "11lassada Ac-
tion and Defense Movement" after the
shrine in Israel that commemorates
the Jewish zealots who fought to the
last man against the Romans. The
group is linked to the Front Etudiants
Juif, which in turn is part of an inter-
national Jewish strident activist organi-
zahon.
In the New York area, a 7G-member
Jewish Student Front is conducting
surveillance and espionage among sum
poked Fatah sympathizers and pro-fe-
dayeen radical circles. Arab consulates
and United Nations missions have
been warned that any acts of terrorism
by the Palestinians will be avenged,
and a reliable informant says the Jew-
ish Student Front maintains a training
camp and arsenal near New York.
Israeli authorities are concerned
But for Fatah, Black Seiitemher, the
Popular Front and a dozen other
groups in the fedayeen kaleido-
scope, Europe is the preferred zone of
operation. It is out of range of Israeli
artillery and jets and the Israelis
cannot necessarily control distant
vigilante groups. The fadaycen, a;
outlaws, are bound by no legal or dip-
lonlatic convention. Israel is stressi'lg
these Points to European authorities in
its efforts to win understanding for its
new policy of acting directly in Europe
instead of relying on defensive intela-
gence-gathering and local police ac-
hion.
Israel has often been disap-
pointed by the inability or refusal
of local police to act on tips. A recent:
example occurred v;hen Israeli agents
gave Italian police ilia names of Pales-
tinian terrorists active in Rome-with
no result. Days later the saute terror-
ists arranged for two English girls to
smiiggle an explosive device aboard an
EI Al plane.
Inevitably, Israeli-sponsored terror-
ism v;ill lead to political repercussions,
but despite this Israel will make every
effort to act selectively to keep the fc-
dayeen frightened and on the run.
"The idea," one Israeli analyst said, "is
to make Europe uncomfortable for the
fedayeen, to end their feeling of sanc-
tuary there."
Ianielligeaiee Groupir_ngt
SIIAELI INTELLIGENCE has -divid-
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L cd Europe into three groupings. The
first consists of Germany, Italy and Au?-
tria, nations where there are large con-
ceutra.tions of Palestinians. West C;cr-
many alone has 1000 to 4,000 Palestinian
students and residents among almost
50,0(10 Arabs, and Fatah is believed to
maintain two cells there. These three
countries are considered likely locales
of future fedayeen activities because
they have already operated there and
have the necessary apparatus and
cover for clandestine missions. Israeli
counterterror activity in these nations
is expected to be considerable in the
months ahead,
A second group of nations Includes
Denmark, England and Belgium, toler-
ant countries that Palestinian terror-
ists use as transfer point. and where
propaganda and recruitment are car-
ried on fairly openly.
e is chief of Fatah intelligence and is o iiouana ana Sweden are part. of a
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vhich is largely a loose collection of League, and are determined to di,-.cour- rorisrn, especially since the Croatian
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Egyptians say Hussein plan a CIA plot
dan's King Hussein for a semi-autonomous Palestinian state as1a plot of
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which played a principal role in
the contacts between Hussein and the Israelis. They noted that in her
speech rejecting the plan, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir acted as a
mother scolding her son, but giving Hussein a cue to come up with a
more acceptable version.
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UNILATERAL MOVE
Aide Says Hussein Seeks
No Accord With Israel
Special to The New York Times
BEIRUT, March 17-Foreign
Minister Abdullah Salah of
Jordan denied today that King
Hussein was seeking a unilat-1
eral peace settlement with
Israel.
In an interview published in
the pro-Amman newspaper Al
Jarida here, Mr. Salah said
that "certain Arab quarters
want to see Jordan take this
step because they themselves
want such a settlement."
He did not identify the quar-
ters, but it was clear that he
was alluding to Egypt, whose
President, Anwar el-Sadat, sup-
ports an interim settlement
with Israel involving the re-
opening of the Suez Canal.
Egypt and her partners in
the Federation of Arab Repub-
lics, Syria and Libya, have not
yet taken a formal stand on
the plan that King Hussein pro-
posed Wednesday for reorgan-
:zing his kingdom to include
the East Bank and the Israeli-
occupied West Bank- of the
Jordan River in a federation.
Rejected by Guerrillas
Reports from Damascus,
Syria, today said that the three
Governments, which had said
they wanted to consult with the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion - the over-all guerilla
group - would issue a joint
statement within 48 hours.
A guerrilla leader, in an ar-
ticle in a newspaper here, said
that the commandos had al-
ready said no to King Hussein
and asked, "What stand will
the' Arab states take now?"
The leader, Shafik al-Hout,
head of the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization office here,
was referring to the statement
Issued last night by the organ-
ization's 13-man- Executive
committee rejecting the King's
plan "categorically and conclu-
sively" and declaring that the
Palestinians alone had the right
to determine their own destiny.
A bulletin circulated here by
the extreme leftist guerrilla
group, the Popular Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Pal-
estine, said that the Palestine
Liberation Organization had
decided to call for an Arab
summit conference to discuss
adoption of a uniform stand
against Hussein's proposals.
The guerrilla leader Yasir
Arafat arrived in Baghdad to-
day for talks with the Iraqi
Government, which proposed a
union with Egypt and Syria to
foil the Hussein plan.
'A Minefield,' Heykal Say
CAIRO, March 17 (UPI)-
Mohammed Hassanein Heykal;
editor of the semiofficial daily
Al Ahrain and a confidant of
President Sadat, today termed
King Hussein's proposal "a
minefield from beginning to
end."
He said in his weekly article,
"Behind this plan is the Amer-
ican Central Intelligence Agen-
cy, which played a principal
role in the contacts between
Hussein and the Israelis and
the American State Depart-
ment."
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I For more than two years beer Moslem holy, places. Is- that the Hashemite kingdom
rael has repeatedly declared will never again join another
there have been persistent re- it ?'
Familiar Refrain
twice attempted showdowns with the
guerrillas. Both times he lost.
Jordan's troubles also threatened to
Last week made it three defeats in a e engulf Lebanon. In Beirut, guerrillas
row. Yasser Arafat, who heads the Al-
gathered in front of the Jordanian em-
Fatah guerrillas and last week was 41 . , bassy to demonstrate against Hussein.
named commander in chief of the twelve They ultimately became so agitated that
major guerrilla organizations, new
mto they burned down the building. Though
Amman from Cairo to arrange a truce. directed against Jordan, the demonstra-
In an all-night session at the palace, he dire was probably a message to the Leb-
tion and Hussein hammered out a ten-point anese government as well. This week
pact, mostly favorable to the fedayeen. Beirut is scheduled to begin enforcing
In a major concession, the King a tough new decree forbidding guerrillas
agreed to accept the. "resignation" of to fire across the border into Israel,
his uncle, Major General Sherif Nasser
Ben Jamil, as commander in chief of Jor- HABASH AT INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL plant mines along the frontier or carry
in populated areas. Such decrees
dan's army. The fedayeen and many "We have the right to do anything." arms have been issued before to discipline
other Jordanians despise the obese She-
riff Nasser, who became rich enough want Amman to become the Hanoi of the fedayeen and avoid Israeli retali-
from smuggling guns and hashish to the Arabs, but we do not want it to be- ation,,but they have the always been quick-
build a .$900,000 palace for himself come another Saigon." ly ignored. Leba army,
and his young second wife. Mainly, how- After Arafat and the King reached embarrassed by continuing Israeli pa-
ever, the fedayeen feared that Sherif their agreement, the battle flared up trols inside Lebanon, has orders to make
Nasser was using his relationship and ac- again, then finally faded. At the Jordan the decree stick.
cess to the King's ear to provoke a show- Intercontinental, sleepy hostages were Whether it can do so is doubtful.
down with them. They were almost sure- roused from bed and assembled to meet "There's no question that we could crush
ly right. Sherif Nasser apparently feared P.F.L.P. Leader Habash. "We believe the commandos," said a senior Lebanese
that the guerrillas were rapidly growing that we had thetright
ssureuon the Jor the who ecpr blem. Any'movetwe'make
e
u
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p
o p
ues
strong enough to topple Hussein, and your
v rnment and on the Amer- against them brings 300,000 Palestinian
e
d
am an go
he proposed that they be stopped. To-
f their camps and down
gether he and Hussein started visiting icans," he told them. "I must be frank refugees out o
cope them
army camps two months ago to re- and tell you that we were near toineex- on our necks. d and we cannot Most
w with them and
inforce loyalty to the King and to Jor- ecuting our plan. We were a em
dan. On a visit to the Saiqa regiment, to blow up the hotels. You must try to with the commandos." That was be-
the in resented 'each soldier with a understand why..we did iCOor~ ears, coming a sadly familiar arefrain in the
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Hussein in his first public ap-
I Am Useful,' STATINTL
Won't Abdicate ,.
pearance since last week's cri- The king said last week's
sis that rocked Jordan, ruled fighting and the atmosphere It
out the possibility today that created was like "moving
through a minefield.
he would abdicate "as long as
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Hussein
Says
I am useful to my people." I We are Sul a that what hap-
Describing the clashes be- polled here was not n mere al.-
tween the Jordanian army and eldent, though we are unable
Palestinian guerrillas as his to' determine at this point
most serious crisis in his 17' what was Intended here."
years as Jordan's monarch, The king did not Identify
Hussein said: who or what group he had in
"I'm not the type of person mind, but left the Impression
who can quit. This nation is, hh was referring to some of
t
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i
part of me. I am part of it,
and so is my family.
I am always fighting its bat
ties and I'll do so to the end."
The fighting, which brought
the army to brink of mutiny
and the guerrillas to the point
of forcing an armed showdown
with the king, claimed about
1,000 casualties.
No More Phantoms
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t-w
ng
a
estin
an guer-
rilla groups.
Through, most of the press
conference, which was divided
into Arabic and English ses-
sions, Hussein spoke in low,
somber tones. He was wearing
a khaki uniform with open
neck and the sleeves turned
up in neat folds above his el-
bows.
When the English portion of
The king, speaking at a'his press conference opened,
press conference in Basman Hussein was asked whether
,Palace, which was surrounded the events of last,week altered!
by camouflaged armored vehi. Jordan's sta-rid on the 1967.
Iles, said relations with the U.N. Security Council resolu
U it d St t were directl tion that calls for the Political
feel that Hussein's ability to'
make a peace and make it
stick Is impaired by the guer-
rillas who have demonstrated,
their power to influence the
king's policies.
"Such questions," the king
said, "I believe have been al-
ways aimed at trying to create
suspicions and disunity."
The khig said he will be
going to Cairo shortly for
talks with President Nasser.
Observers in' Jordan said Hus-
sein will probably ask for-
wider Arab help in improving
relations beeween his govern-
ment and the Palestinian guer-
rilla organizations.
Several times Hussein spoke
with praise about the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization
(PLO), the main Palestinian
political group, and Al Fatah,
the largest guerrilla group,
headed by Yasser Arafat.
Arafat is also chairman of
the PLO executive committee.
Both groups are generally con-
sidered to be moderate.
Provocative Groups
have been as it Is today,' he
said.
Both men were accused by
sole guerrilla groups of ad-
vising the king to crack down
on the guerrillas In Jordan.
The Jordanian Army has been
Smarting for Some time at the,
growth of guerrilla power In
the small Arab kingdom.
Hussein did not make a di-
rect reference to reports of a
mutiny by some-army troops,
but said there was a morale
problem in the ranks of the
predominantly Bedouin force.
[George Habash, who heads.
the Popular Front for the Lib
eration of Palestine, said yes
terday in an interview in Bei-
rut's -Al Nahar that he did not
'foresee a possibility that Hus-'
sofa would abdicate; but if
that were to happen, then "we
,will form a liberated zone,
the first of its kind, bordering
Israel." He defined the zone a k,
a revolutionary state ' eom
4
;Posed 'of -workei's -and filth
e ;" two ,u *Zft4 &,*L- Y-
connected with the U.S. att[ settlement of the Middle East When referring to left-wing
Jude toward Israel. "We cer- Crisis. ' commando calls for him to dis-
tainly are not happy or likely The king exploded In anger, band the Jordanian Army spe-
to be happy if more Phantoms saying: "Indeed, to hell with cial forces, the king described
arrive in Israel," he said. the 22 of November 1907 reso- them as "provocative" and
"We have always tried to lotion, and this is not the~time said such groups "will have to
keep bridges open through to discuss of talk about it. bear responsibility for them."
which better understanding Hussein, however, Indicated "I. don't think they will get
can bring about an improve- Jordan still held out hope for support for the majority of
ment in the situation and in a political solution.. the people," he said.
this part of the world." "I said repeatedly that there + Following last week's fight-
The king did not answer is no peaceful solution or war- ing, the radical Popular Front
questions about Palestinian like solution. There is one so-, for the Liberation of Palestine
guerrilla allegations that the lution that we will accept and, demanded-and got-Hussein
American CIA played a role in that is the return of our to fire army commander-in-
Jordan's recent troubles. usurped homelands and the !chief Maj. Gen. Sharif Nasser
. Jordan, the king said, was. ' . return to us of our holy ;`ben Jamil, the king's uncle,
city (Jerusalem) and every -and a cousin, Maj. Gen. Zald
"facing a period of crisis and inch of territory occupied in hen Shaker, leader of the
ewe sort me," June, 1967. Third Armored Division. ,
the most ost anxious said, (time) ) in was my "We have worked and are Ile defended both former of-
'life, as a man who handles re working in every field to ffacaceers rs as men. "I honorable would and like ~pta-
sponsibility in this country. . achieve that," he said.
"Anxious not for myself-_ The question is a particu-' Say that had It not been for.
for my people, for their unityJ larly sensitive. one In Jordon ( their combined _ efforts with
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The threat of U.S. intervention in the Jordan crisis grew on Friday as Washington!
set up two special task forces to deal with the situation. White House spokesmen said
President Richard Nixon was "very much involved" with Jordan and concerned
since 1955. His ouster was de-
manded by Palestinian forces in
Jordan last April. They accused
Symmes of being a CIA agent
and of working closely with Jor- /
dan's army and intelligence ser-
vice to crush resistance groups.
King Hussein of Jordan an-.
.
a
-American property. a er,
these reports were described as nounced on Friday that an emer- nounced late Thursday night on
"unconfirmed" and "based on ? gency civil airlift would evacu- Radio Amman that he had fired
fragmentary information." zae about 100 U.S. citizens from)' his uncle, Sherif , Nasser Ben
Administration officials reveal- .. Jordan to the sa`rty of fascist ? Jamil, as commander-in-chief,
ed Friday in Washington that the Greece and thai. Palestinian of Jordan's armed forces, and
82nd Airborne Division at Fort forces in Amman had released was taking over the job himself.
Bragg, North Carolina, had been, 84 foreigners they had been hold- Also dismissed by Hussein was
placed on alert late Thursday as ing hostage in two hotels. Gen. Sherif Zaid 'Ben Shaker.,
part of emergency plans to deal'; A newly-established special The Palestinian resistance had
with the Jordan crisis. The offi- task' force on Jordan was func- ? demanded that both be removed
cials denied that the U.S.was tioning in the State Dept., head- from their posts, along with for-
on the point of intervening mili- ed by former U.S. ambassador. mer premier Wasfi Tal and for-
tarily in Jordan. to Jorur '., Harrison M. Symmes. mer Jordan intelligence chief
Marines to the rescue' ?.Symt.:e:. s .i:tcd in the book, asul el-Kailani. All four earlier
Also on Thursday, the White Who's W :~ , CIA (Berlin, this year were named as those
House Special Action Group, '1968), as being . woived in Cen- plotting with. Symmes and the
headed by Henry A. Kissinger... tral Intelligenc.q- Ager-cy -..work,. CIA to put down the resistance.
`about American residents there.
A flood of reports from "U.S. Nixon's National Security Ad-
officials" in Amman, the capital viser, and composed of leading
of Jordan, said that Palestinian State and Defense Department
resistance forces were stealing officials, discussed how to use
American cars, raping American U.S. Marines from the Sixth
women, and that there , was Fleet to "rescue" the 535 Ameri
"widespread destruction 'of ' can citizens in Jordan. "
S. State Dept. an-
to T t
ll But the U
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King df -Jo~danisurge
to oust pro-US. plotters
Daily World Foreign Department
Palestinian resistance forces, in Jordan yesterday delivered a virtual ultimatum to
King Hussein to get rid of pro-U.S. and imperialist elements who have provoked this
d?
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week's fighting, hich has led to an estimated 500 ktl
Hussein said the situation in
Amman. the capital, was return-
ing to -normal. He made the
statement in replying to an ap-
peal from leaders of progressive
Arab states.
United Arab Republic Presi-
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser and
Libyan revolutionary leader Mu'-
ammar al-Qaddafi in Cairo had
yesterday appealed to Hussein.
and Yasser Arafat, head of the
Palestine Liberation Organiza.
Lion, to stop the fighting.
"The tragic events in Jordan
have alarmed the entire Arab
people at a moment when it Is
necessary to unite all forces to
halt aggression and liberate Arab
lands," Nasser and Qaddafi said.
In a message from Baghdad,
Iraqi called for a meeting of all
Arab countries on the situation.
Iraq has several thousand troops
In north Jordan.
Power struggle cited
Despite a cease-fire agreement
between Hussein and Arafat, Jor-
danian "Special Forces" units
continued to attack Palestinian
refugee camps and resistance..
bases with tanks and artillery.
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an resistance group, headed by
A it. t Jo -
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Japan Press Servics
dan's Crown Prince Hassan; to-
gether with Jordan Army com-
Jamil Ben Nasser Member of Jordanian terrupted Communist Party studying Marxism-Leninism is in-
byr/oung friend. .
mander .who is King Sherif Hussein's uncle),
were attempting to oust Hussein Wednesday when he was caught 1968 and' one earlier this spring,:
and crush the Palestinians at the in a crossfire. the army and Jordanian intelli-
same time. Members of the "Popular Front gence had to give way to the
"We would like to know who for the Liberation of Palestine." - Palestinians. Jordan"s security
is really ruling Jordan," an Al- a terrorist group opposed to Al- chief. Maj.-Gen. Rasul al-Kailani. /
Fatah spokesma9 said In Amman. Fatah, are holding 84 foreigners . a friend of the CIA. was ousted. V
"There is a struggle for power hostage. in Amman's Interconti. The latest outbreak seems to be.
by Hassan and those imperialist nental Hotel. William Tuohy of an attempt by pro-U.S. forces to
hirelings against the king. But the Los Angeles Times and Jesse regain control,
this struggle for power should 'Lewis of the Washington Post The last U.S. forces withdrew
not have as its price the blood managed to slip away from the from Wheelus Air Force Base in
of our people -and our revolution." hotel' and reach Beirut in Leba- -. Libya yesterday. This leaves the
U.S. Army attache in Jordan, -non. U.S. with no bases of its own In
Maj. Robert P. Perry, was killed in two; previous clashes, one In ? the Mid-East.
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BEIRUT, Jordan
R1P1a-Jordanian Army'
troops and Arab
gunfire around Am-
man today, just,
flours' after the guer-
rillas released Ameri-
can diplomat Morris
Draper.
Mr. Draper, 42,
f I r s t secretary and
political officer at the
embassy, was seized
at a roadblock near
Sc
g
Moody battle Sunday - headed for Zaroa, 20 miles northeast of the
between the Jordanian Army and commandos
city and the scene of Sunday's battle.
of the left.?wing Popular Democratic Front. Most of today's shooting was concentrated
More than 100 people, including women and around the. prison belonging to the Jordanian_
hl' U>,I~ials
children, were killed or wounded, This was the
most serious clash between the army and the
guerrillas since the country was brought to the
brink of civil war in February.
CEASE-FIRE
Today's fighting ended with a cease-fire an-
nounced by Amman Radio. Guerrilla sources
said the fight started when Jordanian troops
attacked the headquarters of the Palestinian
Army Struggle Command, the Arab guerrilla
coordinating body.
Arab Commandos sealed many roads and
seemed to control several districts of Amman
at the time of the ceasefire.
A spokesman said guerrillas turned back to
Hussein's motorcade which was
Amman Kin
intelligence service. The cultural attache of
the French embassy, Yves 'Aubyn, was shot
three times in the back. His'Condition is ser-
ious.
The U. S. embassy was guarded like an
armed camp. Embassy officials said on the
telephone that Mr. Draper was back at work
-today.
The kidnapers had said they would hold Mr.
Morris until 40 commandos arrested after Sun-
day's fighting were released.
The guerrillas accused the American politi-'
cal officer of being the "chief plotter in the
area," and said that Sunday's fighting was
fomented by the Central Intelligence Agency
and its "local agents."
The kidnaping was a direct undermining of
the authority of King Hussein, who, avoided
civil war last February only by a complete
backdown.
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From News Dispatches
AMMAN, Jordan, June 8-The second-ranking U.S.
;diplomat in Jordan was kidnaped last night by an Arab
(guerrilla group which said it planned to use him as a
(hostage in a new dispute with Jordanian authorities. He
,was released unharmed today.
,A U.S., Embassy. spokesman in Amman said Morris
Draper has been in Amman
sines June, 196&',As first sec
'
retary of the embassy, he
ranks second to . charge
d'affaires Harry I. Odell in the
absence of an ambassador.
The U.S. ambassador. to Jor?;
dan, Harrison Symes, was
withdrawn at. the: request n#
Sisco, assistant secretary of
state for Near East affairs.
Jesse W. Lewis Jr., of The
Washington Post Foreign Serv
ice, reported from Beirut:
Two guerrilla groups claimed
responsibility for the kidnap=
ing of Draper: the Marxist
oriented Popular Democratic
Front for the Liberation (Sf ,
Palestine and the Central Corn-:
mittee of the Militia, a body
formed recently to police the
guerrilla ranks.
There was no word as to,
where Draper had been held
during the 24 hours he was
missing, or of the circum-
stances of his release. Other
details are also unclear.
However, an American em-
bassy official in Beirut said
that Draper had been on his
way to a dinner party in the
Jebel Ashrifiya section of
Amman when he was stopped
at a guerrilla roadblock and
picked up.
The official said that the
guerrillas' demands "appar-
ently were dropped," but he
added thaththtare "may have
been" some 'd'eal worked out'
between the guerrillas and the"
Jordanians concerning the re-
lease of the prisoners.
Draper's kidnaping follows
clashes over the weekend be-
tween guerrillas and the Jor
? Draper's release on orders persons were reported killed
of the Palestine Armed Strug- !or injured. The; fighting took'
gie 'Command would be the: place in Zerka, `a village 12,
first indication that the new miles northeast of Amman, in
guerrilla coordinating group, the cap ital's'outskirts.
bringing together militants The kidnaping also follows
and -more moderate elements charges by the Cairo-based
of. the Palestinean movement,, radio of Al Fatah that the
is able to control the actions Central Intelligence Agency.
of combat-oriented groups: and the American embassy in
such `as the Popular Front. Amman "instigated" the fight'
'Draper, .42, head of the embas-
sy's political section, apparent-
ly had not been ill-treated dur-
ing the time he was held by
the Marxist Popular Demo
erotic Front for the Liberation
of Palestine.
The guerrilla group had
'planned to hold him until Jor-
dan's government met certain
demands. But a spokesman for
the guerrilla group said that
Draper had been released "on
orders of the Palestine Armed
Struggle Command," the guer-
rilla-coordination body, de-
,spite the fact that the de
mands had not been met.
Reportedly, the demands
had included release of a num-
ber of guerrillas captured by
Jordan in weekend clashes
and, according to one. re-
port, dismissal of two high-
ranking army officers. The of-
ficers are Sheri( Nasser ben
Jamil, the commander in
chief, who is an uncle of King
Hussein, and All ben Nayef,
commander of the special
forces who were involved in
.he clashes.
Ing between the guerrillas ands
the army:
Meanwhile in Beirut the
Marxist Popular Democratic
Front, a small guerrilla group,
said that it was holding sev-.
eral Jordanian soldiers as hos-
tages for the release? of de'
t4ine4 commandosy
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the conspirators to pre-
vent. the army being
turned into a force for the
protection of enemy set-
tlements and installations.
The statement said the
ommando dnit was tray-'
c
Guerrillas.
J
or a-
1. eking by car when
nian troops stationed in
the area intercepted it and
Jordanian s! o pened fire. The comman-
in hattle
,
Command announced last `., commandos to their col-
: leagues and "opened fire
night
estine Armed Struggle hand over -two wounded',
.were wounded yesterday ' ed, the statement alleged.
during a 10-hour battle , ?
between commandos and It went on to -say that'
Jordanian troops the Pal- Jordanian troops refused to
BEIRUT, Lebanon ? -,; ceasefire. But when the car
Two Palestinian comman- drew near, it was fired,
dos and eight civilians upon and its driver wound-
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dos returned the fire.
The Jordanian local
commander wa$ asked to
,:. allow a Palestine Armed
Reuters Struggle Command vehicle
The command said a
commando unit was on its
way to attack a target in
Israel when it was inter-
cepted and fired on by
Jordanian troops.
The statement said the
Jordanian troops used
tanks, artillery and ma-
on an ambulance which ar-
rived at the scene to pick:
up the injured."
The clash was the first
major. incident between the ,
commandos and the Jorda-.
nian army since the Febru-
ary crises in which more
than 80 persons were be-
{ ' lieved to have been killed.
chineguns during the A secret agreement
fighting in the vicinity of
Northern Shuneh in the 'ended the crisis, which
Jordan ? Valley. Three erupted while Yasser Araf-
at, chairman of the Pales-
houses were destroyed. . _ ; tine Liberation Organiza
The two wounded coin-
mandos were taken pris-
oner by the Jordanian
forces who refused to re-
turn them, the statement
t..said..?
The statement, issued
by the command here,
said the clash started as
the commandos headed
north toward the Israeli-
settle ment of Nahareim to
blow up a new reservoir.
The statement said the
Jordanian action was
r' is proof that certain army
commanders were "per-
a i s t i n g in their. plot
against the Palestine revo-
lution,"
tion's executive committee,
was on a visit to Moscow.
But on Thursday the ".,
Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine
said that along with other
commando organizations it
had foiled a plot, perpe-
trated in Jordan, to liqui-'
date the Palestine resis-
tance movement and as
sassinate its leaders. The
U.S. CentzaLT1UGilige?
Ageaicy,(CIA,?), was said to
be involved.,
At a press conference in
Beirut, a spokesman for
the front charged that,
Maj Gen Sheriff Nasser
Ben Jamil, commander in
chief of the armed forces
and King Hussein's uncle,
was the man responsible
for the alleged. plot..
. Asked why Fatah had
not participated in an-.'
nouncing the alleged plot,-
the spokesman said this,
was for, purely technical
reasons and because it
was uncovered by , the
popular front.
The leaders said to have ti
been marked for assassi-,'I
nation were named as
George Habash, the front's
leader, and Arafat.
Yacoub Ziadin, a lead-
ing Communist, was, ;lo
:.;
t'.; have been, abducted.
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DAILY NEWS
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Henry J. Taylor , alarm
SHOCKED by Assistant Se- most seriously wounded commandos and they
cretary of Slate Joseph J. Sis- are being sent there. Habeche himself is away
co's secret report on the Mid- from Amman at the moment and is believed to
east emergence of fanatical ,be in Red China.
Palestine Arab Yasser Arafat, v- Arafat shuns all know U. S. diplomats. and ?~
President Nixon now confronts was the power behind King Hussein's recent
an added question in that part demand for recall of American Ambassador
of the pressure-cooker world. Harrison M. Symmes from Jordan and is simi-
On July 12, 1968, I revealed. larly pressing the Lebanese government for
for the first time that Presi- the recall of Ambassador Dwight J. Porter: - /
dent Johnson had privately But in a piece of remarkable tanning by CIA Y
advised his policy intimates Director Richard M. Helms, his undercover ?
that the e x p 1 o s I v e Middle East problem agents have penetrated Arafat's circle, a true,,,,
alarmed him even more than the Vietnam coup.
war. Seeing this at the time I published it, Mr. ? ? ? 1
Nixon told me that he felt the same. Mr. A
Nixon now feels still further alarmed. For, 'A RAFAT is proving evasive about the results ?i
behind the scenes, fiery-eyed Arafat has visit- of his Kremlin visit, saying only that "the
r ed Moscow. hearts there are warm and the snow is cold."
Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezh He clearly got, recognition, however, as a.:
:,'nev quietly invited him to the Kremlin, not power thruout the Arab world in his own.right,
only as the leader of Al Fatah, the largest pendent of the Arab governments.
Arab guerrilla commando group, but as the Arafat feels that, except perhaps for the So-
leader of the all-encompassing United Com- 'viet Union, the outside world "is living in the
mando Command thru-out the Arab world. past, still tied to the power-balance days of the
? ? ? ' 1956 Suez crisis. But now our movement;
1 ARAFAT, alais Abu Ammara has now made makes reliance on any Mideast 'governments.
his headquarters in Amman, Jordan's capital. .totally unworkable."
He sits in a shabby room with an automatic Altho Arafat teaches his immense number of
*?.rifle on the table in front of him. He is guard- :followers to hate Zionism and not individual
ed even more heavily than Castro by what he Jews, he insists that "we can lose two, three,
I calls his."armed militia" in camouflaged uni- jour times ?over~ The Israelis' can lose only
1 forms. once."
His second leader is former Syrian diplomat President Nixon Is convinced that the United
Ahmed Shukairy. Next comes George Ha. Commando Command is far along in an Arab
beche, a Palestinian who became a doctor 'in ` world revolution. And now Brezhnev's injec-.
r? Lebanon. Habeche has all but taken over the tion of the Soviet Union into the revolutionists"
} Palestinian Red crescent, affiliated to the In- - good graces raises the further 'question: The.
ternational Red Cross In Geneva. Moreover, he ,U.S.S.R. already has a Mideast Castro in Nas-
-has now made a special arrangement with Yu-,., ser. Is, it to have, with Arafat,' anothe'!Whb
gos1av1a and Bulgaria:-. to, Hospitalize Arafat's .? even better-4p tea the alb worid7 ??: ~:` ' a'
ama;
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