200-300 were killed in Amman, Jordan, in a mid-June outbreak of fighting between King Hussein's beduin troops and Palestinian guerrillas. This is not the first time there have been such clashes, though they have never been so bloody. Up to June 1967 Hussein tried to suppress the guerrillas-at that time only al-Fath. After the June defeat he had to let them operate, but on a number of occasions (February 1968. November 1968, February 1970) fighting broke out: the King claimed that he wanted to limit the carrying of arms in Jordanian towns, the guerrillas said he wanted to liquidate the resistance, and come to "peaceful settlement" with Israel.
similar process has been ocurring in the Lebanon. Both there and in Jordan reactionary pro-western regime has been unable to wipe the guerrillas out, but has tried to prevent them from undermining their own fragile structure.
Hussein in particular has had trouble with his army, and has had to restrain the virulent anti-communists in charge of it and recently he raised the pay of his crack troops. The chief advocate of a tough line against the Palestininians was Sharif Nasser bin Jamil, Head of the Army and Hussein's uncle. He amassed himself a fortune by organising the smuggling of arms and hashish and recently built himself a luxurious £400,000 house on the outskirts of Amman
TORY AFRICA POLICY EXPOSED Black Dwarf July 71970 page 11