Word: arabia
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Nasser has also been making gains on the diplomatic front. At an Arab peace conference last January, he skillfully detached Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Feisal from the royalist side. Last month Hussein recognized the Yemen republic, and though Prince Feisal still supplies the Imam with money, he apparently has closed his borders to arms traffic...
Britain's last, vital bastion in the Middle East, Aden is the cornerstone on which Whitehall aims to build a stable Federation of South Arabia from more than a dozen disparate sultanates, sheikdoms and emirates along the nether rim of the Arabian peninsula. With easy access to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, Aden is also the major staging post and bunkering station in the area and a key base for the defense of sources that supply Britain with an annual half-billion dollars worth of oil. Not surprisingly, Egypt's President Nasser would also like to "liberate...
...world" by Yemeni President Abdullah Sallal, Nasser inspected "the battlefronts of freedom." However many men he may lose, Nasser pledged, "their reward lies with God." Then he flew back to Cairo, where he was to discuss the Yemen conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, newly installed Regent of Saudi Arabia, Nasser's longtime archfoe. No longer. In a recent interview, Nasser allowed that he was now "very happy" with the Saudi Arabian regime. He will be even happier if the talks with Feisal end in a face-saving solution for the stalemate in Yemen...
Booths will be set up at which gifts and foods from other countries will be sold. Among the countries included in the fair are Halti, China, Great Britain, Japan, Israel, and Arabia...
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 49, swarthy cinemactor last seen as the swaggering Arab chieftain in Lawrence of Arabia, and Jolanda Addolori, 29, blonde, blue-blooded Venetian fashion designer: their second child, second son; in Rome. Quinn remains officially married to the former Katherine de Mille (adopted daughter of the late Cecil B.), mother of his first four children...