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...Clinched with Saudi Arabia the final details of the Dhahran air-base agreement worked out by President Eisenhower and King Saud during the King's visit to Washington (TIME, Feb. 18). The Saudis extended U.S. access to the vital strategic base, 1,000 miles south of Russia's Baku oilfields, for another five years. In return, the U.S. will give the Saudis some $50 million worth of services in the period by helping improve Saudi Arabian civil-aviation facilities, setting up or extending present U.S. training programs for the Saudi army, air force and navy...
...agreement was signed at the State Department last Tuesday. It extends for five more years the authority for U.S. use of the Dhahran airfield 1,000 miles from Russia's Middle East border...
...speed shipments of short-and medium-range missiles (Nikes, Matadors, Snarks) to bolster the defenses of Great Britain. He is helping to work out the details of the agreement whereby the U.S. will send arms to bolster Saudi Arabia while also getting a new five-year lease on Dhahran, the crucial Saudi Arabian air base from which the U.S. Air Force's nuclear bombers can command the southern reaches of the Communist empire. Everywhere, Radford argues publicly and privately for the alltime-peacetime-high defense and foreign military assistance budget of $43.3 billion (58? in every U.S. tax dollar...
...military support against Communist aggression in the Middle East. "There was agreement," said one U.S. official, "on everything we discussed." Beyond concord on aims and future pursuits within the framework of the U.N., the two countries agreed that 1) the U.S. will continue to use the strategically important Dhahran Air Field in Saudi Arabia for the next five years, in return for which 2) the U.S. will provide economic assistance and, over a five-year stretch, some $50 million in arms...
...notable good news of the week was that the U.S. and Saud, without wasting time on platitudinous shows of regard, were settling down to negotiate a tough and workable agreement whereby 1) the U.S. Air Force would continue to use the key $50 million Saudi Arabian air base at Dhahran, 2) the U.S. would send Saud phased shipments of arms that would strengthen Saud as a monarch but would also increase Saud's value as a stability factor in the Middle East...