Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued by a $20 million deficit in his army budget and under fire for his close involvement with the U.S., nervously shot off last week to an oil pumping station on the Iraqi-Jordanian border to ask the aid of his royal cousin, King Feisal of Iraq. Arabia's King Saud, even as he conferred with Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun over ways and means of restoring reason to the aroused Arab nationalists, felt obliged to have his embassies through...
...advised attempt publicly to isolate and quarantine Syria from its neighbors (TIME, Sept. 23). All Arab friends of the U.S. had to show Syria that they would have no part of such a maneuver. And so last week Damascus was treated to the first diplomatic visit by an Iraqi Premier (Ali Jawdat, the summer replacement of Strongman Nuri asSaid) since 1949. The most elaborate gesture of all was the visit to Syria by Saudi Arabia's King Saud, who broke off his European tour and left the waters of Baden-Baden to proclaim his Arab solidarity with Syria...
...five-year-old daughter of Egypt's King Farouk-was abandoned almost as soon as it was considered; the latest attempt to marry him to a daughter of Morocco's King Mohammed V was given up last winter. Reasons: her Moroccan Arabic was almost incomprehensible to an Iraqi, and besides, she was no blonde. This summer 22-year-old Feisal found the girl he wanted...
...Fishing. But the Syrians, as if to dramatize their geographic importance in the most barbaric and graphic way, let half a train shipment of 1,000 Iraqi sheep die on the way to Beirut by simply refusing them water. As the carcasses were burned in a giant pyre at Beirut, the message was clear: it is not so easy to isolate Syria. Syria was also laboring to convince everyone that it had not turned Communist. "I am a considerably wealthy man, and I am determined to keep my wealth," protested Syrian Acting Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, who negotiated...
...direct response to military moves by the Soviet-armed Syrians, were less likely than an economic and political quarantining of Syria. But Syria's own trumps are also economic. One thought that gives Western statesmen worry is what would happen if Syria were to cut not only her Iraqi pipelines but also the Tapline route from Saudi Arabia (see map); these pipelines carry one-third of the Middle East's oil output. If Egypt chose to close the Suez at the same time, the West would really...