Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They are more concerned by the deal being discussed by Indiana Standard with Saudi Arabia. At the bargaining table sits swart, smiling Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 39, the Arab oil expert whom Americans most respect and fear. Head of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, Tariki is an oil engineer with a master's degree from the University of Texas, is divorced from his American wife. His dedicated Arab nationalism is reportedly deepened by painful memories of having been confused with Mexicans in Texas. In the land of sheiks with Cadillacs and concubines, he is regarded as personally...
...Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from...
Middle Eastern crises come and go, but sheiks must eat-and His Highness, Sheik Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah of Kuwait sometimes has prodigious company with his meals. On his oil-born annual income of $260 million, the number of guests he could see around him at a given dinner party is limited only by the geographical horizon. But even so, sheiks do have to pare their invitation lists, which explains why Abdullah of Kuwait has ordered-from West Germany's Vereinigte Werkstaetten furniture makers-only 200 straight-backed, 14-carat, gold-plated dining-room chairs...
...raids by spike-helmeted police rounded up all known Nasser sympathizers, as well as some 200 suspect politicians and civil servants. Who could be sure of anyone, any more? Seventy officers of the King's army are in jail, including Hussein's former close companion, Colonel Rahdi Abdullah. Anyone caught listening to Radio Cairo or to the vicious noise of the clandestine "Jordan People's Radio" was hustled off to prison...
...President Nasser keeps a roving eye on is his big (967,500 sq. mi.) southern neighbor of Sudan. The Sudan, ruled jointly for 56 years by Britain and Egypt, got its independence only 2½ years ago. But the Sudan's wily and forthright Moslem Premier Abdullah Khalil has shown himself surprisingly capable of keeping his young nation free. Eight months ago he smashed a threatened coup by arresting three officers and firing eight others, has since insisted on keeping his army free of Cairo-tainted men. Though pro-Nasserites shrilly cry that "American aid is more dangerous than...