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Pleasures & Palaces. In the sheikdoms and kingdoms of the Arab world, in palaces and refugee camps, he updated the Arabian Nights into Alsop's Fables. In the new palace at Jeddah ("the house that Aramco built"), guarded by blackamoors with gilded scimitars, King Saud of Saudi Arabia entertained 400 dinner guests at once, headed by little Imam Ahmed of Yemen, "who waggles his big, richly turbaned head like a teetotum in a sort of passion of politeness." While the guests drank orange pop, "a court bard, descended straight from the poetic line that sang before Agamemnon at Mycenae . . . recites...
Alsop pursued the contrasts to Dhahran, where Saudi Arabian workmen drew top pay as technicians at Aramco's vast refinery while some of their countrymen bought and sold slaves ($150 for an able-bodied man, $300 for a boy and $600 for a girl). Though he reported that King Saud was using his U.S. oil dollars to finance Arab nationalism's whole anti-Western drive-paying some $500,000 a month to politicians and editors in the Middle East-Alsop found him playing the role reluctantly, the captive of the movement centering in Egypt...
...British-protected sheikdoms. The British charge bitterly that the Saudis offered an $84 million bribe to one of the Buraimi chieftains. The British want the U.S. to restrain the Saudis, who have got rich quick through a yearly income of $250 million in royalties from the U.S. oil company Aramco. The State Department says that the U.S. cannot tell Saudi Arabia what...
...TIME said, "In the past three weeks, 173 Palestinian Arabs have been quietly deported-121 of them Aramco employees-and U.S. oilmen cannot get an official explanation...
...past three weeks, 173 Palestinian Arabs have been quietly deported from Saudi Arabia - 121 of them Aramco employees - and U.S. oilmen cannot get an official explanation. The unofficial explanation is that King Saud is taking capricious revenge on Hashimites (a rival Arab dynasty that gets on reasonably well with Palestinians). Hashimite Iraq recently signed a defense treaty with NATO partner Turkey, thereby splitting up the neutral Arab bloc for the first time. King Saud, one of 40 sons of the late great Lion of the Desert Ibn Saud, has not yet proven himself as lionhearted as his father, and reportedly...