Word: feisal
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...reduced the number of reigning Arab monarchs to three, and only one of them seems reasonably secure-Morocco's King Hassan II. Jordan's Hussein is under pressure from Palestinian commandos, who use his territory as a base, and from Israeli retaliation. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal forestalled a coup by young air force officers only six weeks ago. Since then, he reportedly jailed hundreds of plotters and condemned 30 to death by beheading...
...fire, which damaged the revered mosque in Israeli-ruled Jerusalem. "Hopes for a peaceful solution have been cruelly shattered," declared Jordan's King Hussein. "Now that all peaceful methods have been exhausted, I appeal to you to declare jihad [holy war]," cried Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, in a plea addressed not only to the region's 100 million Arabs but also to the world's 600 million Moslems...
Politically, Saud had also had his troubles in recent years. Forced from his throne in Riyadh by his brother, who now rules as King Feisal, he never gave up his hopes of returning. In late 1966, for instance, Saud left Athens for Cairo, planning to work with Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser to overthrow Feisal. But the alliance produced few results, and Saud was back in Athens by the following autumn...
Political executions are hardly a new phenomenon in the world,* and Iraq seems bent on making them as grisly as possible. King Feisal II was shot...
...businessmen offered supplies and purchased weapons, and the Saudi and Kuwait governments began diverting to fedayeen coffers funds usually contributed to Jordan's budget. Individual contributions by the thousands poured in from Arabs throughout the Middle East and those abroad; the wife of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal sent $4,500. In the coffee bars of Beirut, young Arabs peddle El Fatah stamps, to be used like Christmas seals, bearing a picture of a burned child and the words "Shalom and Napalm"-a reference to the use of napalm by Israelis in last August's reprisal raid...