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| | Black September - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02) |
 | | Cut off from direct contact with the United States and Israel during the two-week Black September uprising, Hussein sent a plea for air support via the British Embassy in Amman, according to a summary of a Sept. 21, 1970 Cabinet meeting. |
 | | The King's situation deteriorated further when, on the 20th September, a Syrian armoured division, which had been gathering near the border, crossed into Jordan. |
 | | Britain was hedging its bets, waiting the outcome of the battle between King Hussein and the newly emergent Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. |
| www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/blksept.htm (381 words) |
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