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NEARLY two decades before the Middle East completely lost its romantic Lawrence of Arabia aura and became a brutal battlefield, two young cousins sat on neighboring thrones: Feisal II in Iraq, Hussein in Jordan. Handsome, carefree, gallant, the two young Kings were installed on the same day in 1953. Their dual reigns were a spectacular achievement for the ancient Hashemite dynasty...
...days late with a $12 million subsidy to Egypt this month; since Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is undecided about negotiation, the delay might have been a pointed notice to Nasser to negotiate with care, if at all. Egypt can ill afford such a slight. King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott learned in Cairo last week, has apparently withheld $25 million due Egypt for war support because the King is angry that Arab disunity is keeping the punctured pipeline through which his oil flows from being repaired...
...mysteries, was published in 1933, his books have been bestsellers all over the world. Millions have come to know the portly defense counselor from the television serial. As far off as Saudi Arabia, Perry Mason reruns have the population wondering about the advantages of the jury system over King Feisal's rigid religious courts...
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the oil-rich countries that bankroll much of the war against Israel, were incensed by extravagant demands for more funds. Yemen and South Yemen resented the fact that the summit focused entirely on Israel; they had hoped to air their own border disputes with King Feisal of Saudi Arabia...
Diplomatic Illness. What with the immense diversity of the Moslem world, the delegates had trouble joining one another just to talk. In the gaudy ballroom of the government-owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...