JORDAN HOLDS MILITARY CONSULTATIONS; CALLS UP RESERVE UNITS
The Jordan Government made known today that a special session of its Security Council has been called and emergency consultation held with other Arab League states. Reserve military units have been called up and assigned to strategic localities. Jordan officially maintained that it assumes absolutely no responsibility for the bus attack in the Negev.
The Lebanese Foreign Minister, Alfred Nacache, declared last night that Israel had withdrawn most of its troop concentrations on the Lebanese and Syrian frontiers, it was reported today in dispatches from Beirut.
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