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...Saudi summer capital of Taif, King Feisal was "pleased" at Nasser's offer, and the Imam-living in exile half a mile from Feisal's summer palace-promised to send his rugged royalist troops to fight with Egypt against Israel, if Nasser finally does live up to the agreement he signed two years...
...economy. He is a Bedouin King ruling a land populated largely by Palestinians-a sophisticated people who look down on Bedouins as unreliable nomads. His country is hemmed in on three sides by states that have often attacked him. To the east is Iraq, where his Hashemite cousin, King Feisal, was killed and the monarchy abolished in 1958. To the north is rabid, leftist Syria, which last sent an assassination team out to kill him in May and blew up a Jordanian border post only a week before the war began. To the west is Israel, with which Jordan...
...wife, Princess Muna (nee Toni Gardiner), a British army officer's daughter whom he married in 1961 after divorcing his first wife. (Toni became a Moslem.) He rises at 7, takes turns with his wife fixing breakfast, plays with their two small sons (Prince Abdullah, 5, and Prince Feisal, 3) until 9, and then helicopters to his office in the Basman Palace atop one of Amman's seven hills...
...reporting from the Arab camp for this week's cover story was done by TIME'S Beirut bureau chief, Lee Griggs, who during the past year has had long interviews with Egypt's President Nasser, Jordan's King Hussein, Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Shah of Iran. Working out of Beirut, Griggs was able to cover the week's events in Jordan and Syria. "The main trouble is knowing whom to believe," says Griggs. "Everyone has an angle and facts are relative at best. Fortunately, after nearly three years here, I have...
...Gaulle made a one-day sightseeing tour of Venice, then flew back to Paris for a surprise meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. He then started preparations for this week's state visit to Poland, in September plans to visit Rumania. Though, as last March's election showed, he has lost much of his appeal at home, De Gaulle is still an impressive crowd puller on the road...