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...base facilities at Dhahran. The U.S. was slow to fulfill its side of the bargain. Last April the Saudis specifically asked to buy 18 light tanks. Six months later the State Department approved the Saudi purchase. In the midst of the furor, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador Sheikh Abdullah Al-Khayyal pointed out that his country had already paid for the tanks ($135,000 each) and therefore held legal title. Overhanging the whole issue was the fact that the Dhahran agreement expires next June 18 and must be renegotiated...
Black-Tent Kingdom. Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, created Jordan. He whacked an elbow-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire and handed it to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said, for the Emir's fighting services to Britain in the desert campaigns against the Turks. Abdullah ruled his arid waste spaces as a Bedouin black-tent state, with three courtiers alternating as Premier at the royal pleasure, and a British proconsul in the Lawrence-of-Arabia tradition commanding the British-equipped Arab Legion. Lieut. General...
...Cousin Moulay. Behind him, Ben Moulay Arafa left decrees announcing his decision to leave "without in any way relinquishing our rights," and delegating "to our cousin Moulay Abdullah ben Moulay Abdel Hand the task of taking care of matters relative to the crown." The nationalists were not pleased. They knew little about Hand except that he is a stout, 50-year-old man working in a government office in Rabat. The government was obviously embarrassed, insisted that Hand's appointment would not "exclude" Faure's plan for a three-man Regency Council...
...Bamako. "At the same time he hired another man and his wife and child. That was a long time ago-about 15 years. I should say. All of us made the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, and there my master sent me to work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told me that I was no longer a free man but had been sold as a slave. Several years later, the prince ordered his overseer...
...told him the game was up, the country and the Council of Elders were with them. Suddenly, the old man agreed to abdicate, but demanded that his son Badr succeed him. No, replied Colonel Thalaya, he had another candidate: the King's halfbrother, the Emir Saif el Islam Abdullah, the 48-year-old Foreign Minister, who once represented Yemen at the U.N. While Abdullah set about forming a new government, the old Imam retired within his palace, broke open the treasury coffers and secretly began buying off the besieging soldiers. After five days, the number of besiegers being reduced...