Word: abdullah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lives with his second wife, Princess Muna (nee Toni Gardiner), a British army officer's daughter whom he married in 1961 after divorcing his first wife. (Toni became a Moslem.) He rises at 7, takes turns with his wife fixing breakfast, plays with their two small sons (Prince Abdullah, 5, and Prince Feisal, 3) until 9, and then helicopters to his office in the Basman Palace atop one of Amman's seven hills...
...army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving arms aid to royalist guerrillas in Yemen so that the latter do not incite a show down with Egypt and Nasser's puppet in Yemen, Abdullah Sallal, before Saudi Arabia is ready to fight...
...evacuated 130 Americans from Yemen because of harassment of its AID mission by the republican regime of Abdullah Sallal. Two AID officials, Stephen Liapis, 33, and Harold Hartman, 36, have been jailed on trumped-up charges that they were caught attempting to blow up an ammunition dump with a bazooka. The U.S. has protested vigorously, but has hesitated to break relations lest it have to abandon Liapis and Hartman and give up its diplomatic listening posts in Yemen...
...when Saud's old foe, Gamal Abdel Nasser, last December allowed Saud to take up residence in Egypt. Last week Saud, 65, showed that he is not an ungrateful guest. Flying to Yemen, he gave his wholehearted blessing to the republican regime of Nasser's puppet, General Abdullah Sallal, and declared that he himself is "the only legitimate monarch of Saudi Arabia." Back in Cairo, he went on the air to announce that he had "decided to return home at whatever cost" to reclaim his throne from his brother - and Nasser's current enemy - King Feisal...
...with the help of Nasser's 47,000-man occupation army. Pro-republican tribesmen, who were originally glad of Nasser's help, have been angered by the arrogance and oppression of the Egyptians, are now in open revolt against Nasser's brutal puppet, Abdullah Sallal, who recently executed 15 of his former comrades in arms and jailed hundreds of others...