Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubtful Jordan will last out the year as an independent state," cabled a New York Times reporter last week. It might not come to an end that soon, but now that Jordan has lost its usefulness to the British as a base, the little desert kingdom has also lost its chief historic excuse for existence...
...Bihi, who sided with exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi ou Bihi Governor of Tafilalet province, a vast domain between the Sahara desert and the Atlas mountains in southeast Morocco...
...feudal desert King, in his three years on the throne, has shown himself a man who prefers gestures to words, and understandings to contracts. At this time of shifting allegiances in the Middle East, it was a significant gesture that Saudi Arabia's Saud chose to cross the Atlantic at the invitation of "my friend Eisenhower...
...Saud, the Old Lion, reared his son in the stern tradition of the desert. Saud's formal schooling consisted of the Koran, and ended at 13. But he learned the slashing swordsmanship of the Arab horseman; and as late as 1929, young Prince Saud was dealing with a domestic crisis by the simpler method of chopping off the heads of captured tribesmen. Once he saved his father's life by leaping between him and an assassin, taking the descending knife in his shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there...
Unrepentant and unhurrying to the end, the Israelis finally agreed to pull their troops out of the Sinai desert this week, under threat of still another U.N. censure vote. By an overwhelming 74-to-2 vote (France was the other nay), the General Assembly called on Israel to withdraw within five days behind the 1949 armistice line. Both Britain and the U.S. first worked to avoid an outright condemnation of Israel, and then supported the resolution. Though agreeing to withdraw, Israel attached conditions. It insisted that Egypt must never return to Gaza, which was in fact a part...