Word: ibn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies argue that Ibn Saud and the lesser sheiks must be placated at all costs if America is to maintain its dominant position in the petroleum industry and they their profits. They add that any Yankeephobia among the nomads would invite Russian expansion into this American preserve...
...play itself has already created considerable comment because of its audacious some would say-reworking of a theme ostensibly treated finally by Shakespeare. The author, Ari Ibn-Zahav, has altered and reinterpreted "The Merchant of Venice," keeping many of Shakespeare's characters and large sections of the plot...
...Saudi Arabian Legation in Washington called off its annual reception. King Ibn Saud, officials said, was mad at the U.S. for supporting partition of Palestine...
...opposition to Zionism, were not uniformly zealous in planning war. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon were for all-out war by League members and economic pressure on backers of the U.N. partition plan. But Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Trans-Jordan advised caution. In his desert fortress-capital at Riyadh, King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia said that reports that he would cancel U.S. oil concessions were "untrue and irresponsible." "Our friendship with the U.S. is solid and well established,'' said Ibn Saud. "We believe [the U.S.] made a mistake in the U.N. Palestine decision, but we hope...
...Pasha joined other Arab leaders in promising warfare on the Jews: "I cannot say where and when I will place my troops. I can only say we will fight and are preparing for victory." Azzam Pasha had just returned from a flying visit to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs for the war on Zionism...