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Meeting in an extra, rose-bordered palace of King Feisal's, the four Premiers of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Pakistan and Britain's Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan gathered to give formal shape to the new organization. The last link in a defensive chain forged around the Communist land mass from Norway to the Philippines, it interlocks with NATO (through Turkey) in the West, with SEATO (through Pakistan) in the East...
...deal elevated Nasser to a role he has coveted for some time, cock of the walk with the Arab world. Saudi Arabia urged all the Arab governments to follow Nasser's example. Said Saudi Arabia's Premier-Crown Prince Feisal: "The purchase of arms means the purchase of steel, not the purchase of ideologies." Even in Lebanon, the Arab country most closely oriented toward the U.S., the Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution unanimously supporting Egypt. Though it will be some time before the arms deal has the desired effect, Nasser felt strong enough to shout his plans...
...Bamako. "At the same time he hired another man and his wife and child. That was a long time ago-about 15 years. I should say. All of us made the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, and there my master sent me to work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told me that I was no longer a free man but had been sold as a slave. Several years later, the prince ordered his overseer...
Racing through the pages of Author Raymond Thorp's Bowie Knife, Iraq's impressionable young (20) King Feisal II got so excited about the wonderful versatility of such a weapon* that he instructed his aide-de-camp to try to get one of the genuine articles from the book's publisher, the University of New Mexico Press. Word of Feisal's request splashed into U.S. wire services, and soon the university's President Tom Popejoy was being showered with offers of stilettos, daggers, cheese knives and bodkins from all over. San Antonio's Chamber...
...year-old monarchs of the Middle East went sightseeing together in Bethlehem. King Hussein of Jordan, in military uniform, and his cousin, King Feisal II of Iraq, wearing a trim business suit, were photographed in a solemn mood at the birthplace of Christ...