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...Arabian town of Beihan al Qasab. Almost nightly, planes drop supplies over Royalist areas by parachute, while camel caravans, moving under the cover of darkness, plod silently across the Saudi border into Yemen. On top of a previous $400 million arms deal with Britain and the U.S., Saudi King Feisal announced fortnight ago that he is buying twelve British-built Hawker Siddeley jets, and plans a military airfield near Qizan, within ten miles of the Yemen border...
Died. Field Marshal Abdul Salam Aref, 47, President of Iraq, a wily plotter who was General Abdul Karim Kassem's right-hand man in the 1958 army coup in which King Feisal was murdered, later that year fell from favor and was imprisoned by Kassem for pro-Nasser leanings, but was released in January 1963 and within a month grabbed power in a bloody revolt (Kassem and his chief aides were machine-gunned), after which Aref nimbly walked the tightrope of Middle East politics, surviving eight attempts on his own life; in the crash of his Russian-built helicopter...
...occasion was Unity Day, the annual observance that oddly celebrates Egypt's short-lived union with Syria. Warming to his subject, Nasser accused Saudi Arabia's King Feisal of financing a plot against him last summer, and of trying to form a conservative, anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. "Their object," Nasser steamed, "is to destroy Arab nationalism and unity." And who are the real architects behind the alliance? "Obviously," Nasser answered, "Washington and London." With that, Nasser all but tore up the six-month-old Egyptian-Saudi truce on Yemen, declaring...
Last September, Hussein flew to Teheran for secret talks with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. In December, Feisal paid his own visit to the Shah, where the two settled an old dispute over offshore oil rights in the Persian Gulf. The oil-rich gulf, in fact, is doubtless one key element in all the royal rambling, for with Britain considering withdrawal from its bases at Bahrein and Aden, an informal understanding today could become a formal pact tomorrow if leftists try to push the Nasserite cause in the region...
Ahead were more talks between the monarchs. Iran's Shah will soon repay the visits by Hussein and Feisal with trips to their capitals...