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To: Win Smith who wrote (20605)	3/4/2002 10:44:06 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The first link shows Jordan taking fairly severe losses, greater than the PLO suffered, though I don't know how accurate those figures are. There's something screwy with the figures; they say that Jordan has 17,000,000 people when it only has 4,000,000. I don't know the exact figures and relative strength. My impression was that it was a little bit like the current situation vis-a-vis Arafat on the West Bank; that is, Jordan had the military strength to defeat him but would incur a big diplomatic cost with the other Arab states to do so, therefore all the half-steps, agreements, and of course (this being Arafat) broken cease-fires and lenghthy fighting. Your article doesn't mention that Nasser rescued Arafat from destruction that time -- it was literally the last thing Nasser did before dying from a heart attack. I wonder who would rescue Arafat this time. Arafat always finds somebody.

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