Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SAUDI ARABIA (estimated pop. 3,500,000): desert domain of KING IBN SAUD, 71, who took parts of it by force in 1925 from Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca and Abdullah's father; in theory, a theocracy; in fact, an absolute monarchy. Member of the Arab League. Ibn Saud's main income: $100 million yearly in royalties for oil concessions to Aramco. Army: 15,000, plus tribal irregulars. At Dhahran: important U.S. air base...
Among the last of King Abdullah's official visitors last week was a stocky, cigar-smoking man with a tarboosh tilted jauntily over a blunt, puckish face. He was Riad Bey el Solh, 57, one of the Middle East's shrewdest politicians and Lebanon's first premier when the little country became independent...
Last week, el Solh visited Abdullah, talked with him for a few hours, then drove out to Amman airport in Abdullah's limousine. At a lonely stretch of the road a strange car ripped past, Tommy-gun fire burst from its windows. El Solh was shot through jaw and heart, instantly killed. The assassins: Mihkail el Dib, a Lebanese, and Mohammed Salah, a Palestinian Arab, both members of the Syrian National Party. One of the men was killed by police; the other reportedly took his own life...
...school tie, trundled off to Harrow, England. Today, he is a thin, straw-hatted upperclassman, with a reputation for athletics and authorship. This year, Feisal wrote a judo manual in Arabic for the use of the Iraqi army, presented the first copy to his great uncle King Abdullah of Jordan, who was assassinated last week. Its title: How to Defend Yourself...
Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...