Word: hassanal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue; Saudi Arabia's King Feisal wore a richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes and an honor guard with turbans and flashing swords, Morocco's King Hassan II arrived aboard the French cruise ship Roussillon, which he had chartered for the occasion. Hassan is understandably loath to fly: his own air force tried unsuccessfully to shoot down his plane last summer as he was returning home from a visit to France...
...three-day summit was surprisingly free of acrimony-except against Israel-in part because three notables were absent. The most radical of Arab leaders, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr, boycotted the conference because they thought it would soften Arab attitudes toward Israel. Jordan's King Hussein stayed home-although he sent a delegation -because he resented the participation of Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Concentrating on the three Ps of peace, petroleum and Palestine, the delegates, in the end, were able to wind up the meeting with the most impressive display of Arab...
...Kuwait. Algerian President Houari Boumedienne dropped into Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait and Riyadh in an effort to arrange an Arab summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi warned of a return to war and urged the defeat of Israel; his cries were echoed by Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr...
...country that Kissinger visited. The odd presence of a German-born American Jew in the ornate Arab palace seemed to symbolize how much was riding on the trip. Kissinger was not the only one to sense as much. That evening, after the end of a midnight talk with King Hassan II, 44, who is generally regarded as an Arab moderate, the monarch showed unprecedented courtesy by walking Kissinger a full block back to his guest villa at the Royal Palace...
...Saudi king long resisted calls by such firebrands as Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr that the Arabs wield their "oil weapon" for political gains. But after Egypt and Syria invaded Israel last month, Feisal finally agreed to cut back the flow of oil. Later, when President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to send Israel $2.2 billion worth of arms, Feisal exploded with rage and shut...