Word: jeddah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-year war in Yemen, where 20,000 Egyptian troops are propping up a wobbly republican regime against 10,000 Saudi-supported tribesmen who want to restore the Imam Mohamed el Badr to his throne. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad proposed that Egypt and Saudi Arabia revive their Jeddah Agreement of 1965, which calls for formation of a caretaker government, a phased withdrawal of Egyptian forces, and a plebiscite among Yemeni tribesmen to pick a permanent form of government...
...Aden. Now that Yemen's republicans are at each other's throats, Nasser's job will be twice as hard. His reasons for sticking to it range far beyond the barren land of Yemen. In the 1965 armistice signed at Jeddah, Nasser pledged a gradual evacuation of his occupation army. But he apparently abandoned any intention of withdrawing from the area at just about the time the British announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to Yemen's neighbor, South Arabia. For Nasser, South Arabia, with its oil refineries in Aden, would be a prestige...
...crash road-building program, Feisal plans 6,000 miles of new roads by 1970. He is also rebuilding the Hejaz Railway-in ruins ever since Lawrence of Arabia blew it apart during World War I-from Medina through Jordan to Syria. In Jeddah, he is putting up a $14 million water-desalting plant that will daily convert Red Sea water into 5,000,000 gallons of potable water and produce 45,000 kw. of power...
Some, of course, came to prey as well as pray. Sixty Nigerian Moslems were arrested for smuggling kola nuts, an illegal stimulant, into Saudi Arabia; police thoughtfully escorted the offenders through the hajj ritual, then brought them back to Jeddah for prosecution...
...little more than skin-deep. Morocco still fines men caught smoking during Ramadan, and Malaya's Moslem courts zealously crack down on khalwat (close association of the sexes). Saudi Arabia has neither alcohol nor movies, but even here faith is succumbing to the influences of modernism: this year Jeddah will have a TV station...