Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawrence of Arabia. The only spectacle released in 1962 that is truly spectacular: a film biography of the peculiar guerrilla genius who led the Arab revolt against the Turks during World...
...left Suez. There to celebrate the occasion was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. As 20,000 Egyptians cheered, Nasser called the British-from Queen to commoner-"sons of bitches," sneered at his critics, and ridiculed as a pair of "nuts" Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud because they oppose Egypt's military venture in Yemen, where Nasser supports the rebel Abdullah Sallal...
...regime. Instead, Nasser made it clear at Port Said that he plans to stay in Yemen, the better to export revolution into the British-protected states-ranging from Kuwait in the north of the Arabian peninsula to Aden in the south-as well as to Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
Lawrence of Arabia. To the hero-happy public he was a guerrilla genius, the Galahad of World War I. To his military superiors he was a popinjay. To the Arabs he was Sheikh Dinamit, the spirit of the wind who led them to victory over the detested Turk. To Biographer Richard Aldington he was a cad and a bounder-sado-masochistic, hemi-homosexual, selfpublicizing charlatan whose actual role in the Arab revolt was small and whose subsequent career as a technician in the R.A.F. was merely a theatrical gesture of humility. To Winston Churchill he was "one of the greatest...
Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Feisal, who fear that the example of a successful revolution in Yemen will spark trouble within their own kingdoms, were acknowledged by U.S. officials to be "extremely unhappy." The U.S. is aware of their fears, but is gambling that the example of Yemen will prove a spur to reform rather than revolution in all the Middle East's monarchies...