JORDAN THE HOT BREATH OF NASSER IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF 
TIME BEFORE THE EMOTIONAL REPERCUSSIONS OF GAMAL ABDEL NASSER'S ARAB UNITY 
MOVEMENT WOULD SWEEP ACROSS THE KINGDOM OF JORDAN . LAST WEEK 
NASSERITE CROWDS SWARMED THROUGH JERUSALEM AND TOWNS ON THE WEST BANK 
OF THE JORDAN RIVER, SHOOTING OFF RIFLES AND TOMMY GUNS AND 
DEMANDING IMMEDIATE MERGER WITH NASSER'S PROJECTED FEDERATION . KING HUSSEIN CALLED 
OUT DESERT TROOPS AND POLICE REINFORCEMENTS, CLAMPED AN EMERGENCY CURFEW ON 
THE HOLY CITY . IN THE CAPITAL CITY OF AMMAN, SHOUTING 
STUDENTS CARRYING ARAB UNITY FLAGS WITH A FOURTH STAR FOR JORDAN 
WERE PEACEFULLY DISPERSED, BUT ARMORED CARS WARILY PATROLLED THE STREETS . 
A FEW HOURS LATER, IN A STORMY DEBATE IN AMMAN'S HOUSE 
OF REPRESENTATIVES, 32 OF THE 60 LEGISLATORS ROSE TO ATTACK THE 
POLICIES OF PRIME MINISTER SAMIR RIFAI, WHOM HUSSEIN HAD APPOINTED ONLY 
24 DAYS EARLIER . RIFAI WAS IN FAVOR OF LINKING JORDAN 
WITH NASSER'S GROUP, BUT WANTED TO TAKE HIS TIME ABOUT IT 
. THE PARLIAMENTARIANS DID NOT WANT TO WAIT . AFTER NINE 
HOURS OF IT, RIFAI STORMED OUT OF THE CHAMBER, HANDED HIS 
RESIGNATION TO KING HUSSEIN . 