1.   The Jordanian government denied that there were any attacks and accused the Israelis of opening fire on Jordan to divert attention from the intifada.

2.   The halting of Saudi oil supplies to Jordan in mid-September prompted the Jordanian government to introduce energy-saving measures in October.

3.   The Jordanian government had been under heavy United States pressure to carry out sanctions.

4.   Arafat repeatedly asked the new Jordanian government to take action against the group, foreign diplomats and senior Jordanian officials said.

5.   At first, the Jordanian government said the case was just a street altercation.

6.   At that time, the Jordanian government provided refuge to two powerful defectors and called for the first time for a change in the Iraqi government.

7.   After five days of resisting public pressure for a legal demonstration, the Jordanian government finally acceded to the request by opposition parties to march.

8.   But he said the Jordanian government is waiting for documentation fro the United States before the children can be turned over.

9.   But his return to Iraq Tuesday in a convoy of limousines provided by the Jordanian government was greeted in Washington with what a State Department spokesman called stunned disbelief.

10.   By this month the Jordanian government had decided to postpone as premature a scheduled trade conference with Israeli officials.