Word: jidda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since France cut Guinea off without a sou (when Guinea refused to join the French African Community), suave, handsome Premier Sekou Toure has been touring around looking for money. In the midst of a visit to the U.A.R. last week, he suddenly flew off to Jidda to get acquainted with Saudi Arabia's rich King Saud. Saud proffered no money, so Toure hustled back to Cairo to continue his talks with Nasser, found that the U.A.R. President already had another tourist: Indonesia's Sukarno...
...endure chronic pain, reportedly the result of a childhood appendectomy). Last week, looking drawn and dejected, he announced that he would leave for Switzerland for medical treatment. King Saud, 58, looking more regally splendid than ever in his new style of democratic monarch, took off for Jidda and Mecca to welcome the year's first pilgrims at the holy places of Islam...
...Arab world from Cairo to Damascus to Jidda broke into shrill cries of rage. Hurriedly calling delegates from many Mideast countries for an emergency meeting, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (membership: 2,000,000) gave the New York pickets a week to halt their boycott. "Unless they unload Cleopatra by that time, we will do the same thing to American ships in all Arab ports," said a top official. Sure enough, at the zero hour, Alexandria dockers resoundingly proclaimed, "In the name of Allah and Arabism, we Arab workers by Allah's blessing start our boycott...