Word: bedouin
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...victory." Azzam Pasha had just returned from a flying visit to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs for the war on Zionism...
...health authorities are not yet in a mood to cheer. Egypt's people, many living in squalid surroundings, undernourished and with no built-up resistance to cholera, may still get it. Wandering Bedouin may still carry the disease to neighboring countries. But except for a few scattered and well-watched cases outside the main area, by this week the epidemic seemed pretty well fenced in. Since the start, there have been only 1,050 proved cases, 674 deaths. Help is still arriving...
Today, Haganah regards defense in a different light. Where once defense meant merely protection against Bedouin raiders, it is now the defense of the lives and the futures of hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees whose only hope is Palestine...
They bought from fisherwomen in Bedouin-like headdresses the Portuguese equivalent of hot dogs - grilled sardines. But the biggest crowds milled, with wistful eyes, around the U.S. pavilion, where wooden doll exhibits depicted typical scenes of life in the fabled, incredibly distant land of freedom...
...center of Amman. There for two hours he works. Then he returns to his gaudy palace on one of Amman's five hilltops and reads Arabic poetry. After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive his chieftains. When he is gay (which happens often), he will take a sheikh into the palace and send him careering through the salons on a bicycle. He loves practical jokes, and keeps a set of distorting mirrors in his palace...