Word: abdullah
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...Kuwait's Sheik Abdullah al Salim al Sabah will get more than $200 million in oil royalties this year, the biggest oil royalty cut in the world. He probably has the biggest annual income of any man on earth. All this has come to a land no bigger than New Jersey, which was still living meanly at the close of World War II in an economy based mainly on pearling and Gulf shipping. The men responsible for this revolution-in a land where slaveholding is still legal-are a few Westerners, 45 Americans and 625 Britons, representing the Kuwait...
...engagement at a Miami nightclub, Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia Gamal, bride of Texas Playboy (Shepherd) Abdullah King, sniffed the U.S. air, announced that American women "use too much soap. I take a bath twice every week, and the other days I sponge myself with olive oil. It would be better if American girls shined a little...
...Saud's men drove Sherif Hussein, ruler of the kingdom, out of the Hejaz, and the holy city of Mecca. Hussein, a haughty old man who was head of the Hashemite clan, went into bitter exile in Cyprus. He filled his two sons, who were to become King Abdullah of Jordan and King Feisal I of Iraq, with hatred of the usurper. Abdullah's son Talal, then 13, heard his grandfather's promises of vengeance on Ibn Saud...
...There was trouble in Jordan, too. Executed for plotting the murder of Jordan's King Abdullah was: 1. Jordan's Premier, Tewfik Pasha...
...hired assassin has no friends. Mustafa Shukri Asho, who killed King Abdullah of Jordan last July, had expected to escape under cover of grenades thrown by fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover...