Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saudi Arabia's Islamic calendar, this year is 1386, and visitors to the-desert kingdom often feel that is about where Saudi Arabia stands on the Western calendar. Justice still decrees an eye for an eye. Marriages are arranged sight unseen. A few weeks ago the deputy rector of the Islamic University at Medina even came out in support of a 14th-century theory that the world is flat and mountains are only ballast to keep it from tipping over. But for all this, Saudi Arabia's old ideas and old ways are giving way to the 20th...
...horizon. In the privacy of their homes, many Saudis no longer fear that drinking, dancing or a little poker will bring down the wrath of Allah-or the government. Out in the desert, the country's ever-wandering Bedouins, who comprise 80% of Saudi Arabia's 3,500,000 people, are swapping their camels for Land Rovers and pickup trucks, and-thanks to a government well-drilling program that guarantees them water-are abandoning their nomadic ways and settling into community life...
Riches to Work. Unlike his profligate half-brother-ex-King Saud, whom he nudged aside in 1964 after Saud had all but bankrupted the country-Feisal is an energetic, reform-minded ruler determined to put Saudi Arabia's oil riches to work for the people. No sooner was he in power than he ordered free education and medical service for all Saudis, stepped up oil production and trimmed the country's budget. Today Saud's lavish, pink-walled Nasiriyah Palace in Riyadh-with an air-conditioning system said to be second in size only to the Pentagon...
Plea for Defenses. Wilson was also receiving criticism last week on the colony of Aden and the South Arabian Federation, which is due for package independence in 1968. Early in the week four South Arabian Cabinet ministers ar rived in London to discuss ways for South Arabia to avert almost certain subversion and take-over by Egypt's Nasser once Britain pulls out its 13,000 troops and closes down Aden's Khormaksar Airfield. To beef up its 5,000-man army, South Arabia wants 5,000 British troops, some patrol boats and spotter planes, a couple...
Crux of the matter is Nasser's burning desire to mount a military offensive against Saudi Arabia, which has been aiding the Yemen Royalists in their fight against Nasser-backed Hassan al-Amri, the would-be dictator of Yemen. Russians in the Premier's entourage let it be known that Kosygin is willing enough to aid Nasser with arms and equipment in the Yemen war, but fears that a widening of the conflict to Saudi Arabia would bring about a "hot war" confrontation in the Middle East that neither Russia nor the U.S. wants. Hence, the Russians said...