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...some top faces will be absent. Pleading illness, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba retired to a Swiss clinic and sent his Premier in his place. Morocco's King Hassan II did not even botherwith excuses, and dispatched his younger brother, Prince Abdallah. Saudi Arabia's Prince Feisal grumbled that Arab Kings and Presidents "need to stay home and attend to more serious matters," but finally agreed to put in an appearance...
Purposeful Arms. Prince Feisal will probably try to keep the Yemen issue off the Arab summit's agenda and may be supported by the more or less conservative Arab states of Sudan, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. Nasser's effort to get Arab backing for his Yemen stand against "the British imperialists and Saudi infiltrators" may be backed by Algeria, Kuwait, and his new-found bosom friend, King Hussein of Jordan. Syria, whose Baathist rulers detest Nasser, and Lebanon, which hates quarrels, will probably stay on the sidelines...
Nasser has also been making gains on the diplomatic front. At an Arab peace conference last January, he skillfully detached Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Feisal from the royalist side. Last month Hussein recognized the Yemen republic, and though Prince Feisal still supplies the Imam with money, he apparently has closed his borders to arms traffic...
Hailed as "the greatest man in the world" by Yemeni President Abdullah Sallal, Nasser inspected "the battlefronts of freedom." However many men he may lose, Nasser pledged, "their reward lies with God." Then he flew back to Cairo, where he was to discuss the Yemen conflict with Crown Prince Feisal, newly installed Regent of Saudi Arabia, Nasser's longtime archfoe. No longer. In a recent interview, Nasser allowed that he was now "very happy" with the Saudi Arabian regime. He will be even happier if the talks with Feisal end in a face-saving solution for the stalemate...
Though they balked until a plane was actually warming up to cart them off into exile, King Saud's five rebellious sons finally kissed Feisal's hand in submission last week. Their capitulation may ease family pressure to banish Saud himself. Meanwhile Feisal, whose reforms in the past 18 months have disarmed the regime's Nasserite opposition, found his hand greatly strengthened. In an interview with an Arab journalist at the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the relaxed Regent even hinted that he plans to lead the country to true constitutional monarchy...