Threats to murder prominent Arabs of East Jerusalem and the West Bank for “treason” arrived Sunday in the mail of several news agencies. The leafiest, signed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, singled out for death Anwar Nuseibeh, former Defense Minister of Jordan, and Hikmat el Massri, former Speaker of Jordan’s Parliament. The treason referred to their alleged collaboration with King Hussein.
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