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...bottom lands will bring to the new Federation, it will have advantages of common frontiers and racial ties that Nasser's union conspicuously lacks. But Iraq is not keen to share its wealth with barren Jordan, and the Federation has been slow getting started. Iraq's King Feisal, 23, and his cousin Hussein. 22, of Jordan will both keep their crowns and the federal Parliament and Cabinet, controlling foreign and defense policies, will meet alternately in Baghdad and Amman. Still to be worked out: whether Iraq, which has plenty of farm land to reclaim, will be able...
Forty years ago a young Arab officer rode triumphantly up the old Hejaz railway beside Prince Feisal and Lawrence of Arabia toward the ancient desert capital of Amman. Last week, still pursuing his old dream of an Arab nation filling the Fertile Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, General Nuri asSaid, 70, returned to Amman to put into being a new union, the Arab Federation, joining the kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan...
...Parliament having duly ratified the federation, Nuri is expected to resign, and then the two young Hashemite cousins, Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein, will name 20 Deputies apiece to form the new federal Parliament. Then Feisal as chief of state will ask somebody to put together a new Arab federation Cabinet. The new Premier will almost certainly be Nuri Pasha himself, or else someone agreeable to the man who fought in the original World War I Arab nationalist "desert revolt" against the Turks, has 14 times been Iraq's Premier, and its strongman...
Wright found his site the Wright way. Circling in over Baghdad by airplane, he spotted a long narrow island in the middle of the Tigris. He discovered that it was royal property, went straight to King Feisal II. Recounts Wright: "The young king took me by the arm, smiled and said, 'It is yours.' " Unimpressed by its popular name, Pig Island, Wright promptly rechristened it Edena (for the Garden of Eden). He soon noted an unancient problem: newly prosperous Baghdad is rapidly filling up with automobiles. His solution is in the earthen ziggurats that Harun al-Rashid used...
...returned from one prewar trip to convince his father that cars had it all over camels-a message that was to cost Saudi millions for air-conditioned Cadillacs. But as Saudi princes go, Feisal lives modestly, restricting himself to a couple of modest palaces and only one wife, to whom he has been married for 22 years...