Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crown Prince Feisal of Saudi Arabia, HZIAF...
...Jebel Tubeiq in the Jordanian desert, Sam Spiegel's Lawrence of Arabia company (with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Alec Guinness as Feisal) set up its camp under towering red dunes, 150 miles from the nearest oasis. Kerosene trucks brought water at a cost of about $3 a gallon, and Spiegel nearly turned into a pillar of salt when he learned that truck drivers were stopping en route to take showers. Then a couple of hundred Bedouins showed up one night, circled the camp, rattled their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests...
...land is a favorite hobby of the princes and powers around the Persian Gulf, and they do it on the simple theory that their nomadic ancestors once roamed the ground in question. Backward Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole...
...Vienna), President Kennedy tried to still Arab fears that any Democratic Administration, because of the heavy vote it draws from U.S. Jews, is automatically pro-Israeli. He sent off warm and tactful letters to the chiefs of state of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy recalled U.S. support at the time of Suez, to Lebanon's President Fuad Che-hab he mentioned the 1958 landing of U.S. Marines. To each, Kennedy promised that the U.S. was "willing to share in the labors and burdens" of resolving...
...years ago tossed out the teachers and technicians Badr had imported from Egypt, last week called Hassan home from New York. Hassan has been given no job yet, but the ulema favor him over Badr. And on his way home Hassan spent four days in Saudi Arabia talking with King Saud, who is alarmed by the 2,000 Red Chinese and Russian technicians Badr imported, and feels Hassan is the man to prevent a Communist takeover of his neighbor...