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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief engineer was Jordan's doughty young (22) King Hussein. As he well knew, the Palestinian Arabs and refugees who comprise two-thirds of his 1,500,000 subjects were most susceptible of all the Middle East's Arabs to Nasser's new appeal to the ancient dream of Arab unity. Urgently, Hussein called on Saudi Arabia's King Saud and his cousin King Feisal of Iraq, to confer on a new union. Saud held aloof, but Feisal came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: To Bring Forth a New Union | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: To Bring Forth a New Union | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...will sit half the time in Baghdad, half the time in Amman. Though Feisal is designated head of state, "the question of the head of state will be reviewed" if any other state joins the federation. This is a big hint that it is not too late for King Saud to line up with his fellow sovereigns. At week's end Amman reported that the oil-rich Persian Gulf sheiks of Kuwait and Bahrein were "considering" joining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: To Bring Forth a New Union | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Wanting to celebrate his 38th birthday by getting away from it all, Egypt's blimp-sized ex-King Farouk put on his sunglasses, boarded a 22-seat bus and rolled through the Alps into the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. His fellow riders: his 19-year-old daughter Princess Ferial, two bodyguards, a chauffeur, a maid and an anonymous raven-tressed playmate. Explained His Corpulent Majesty: "People think I and my entourage are an ordinary tourist party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...News has never been free from servitude to King Mammon. The paper for the past few years has been partially subsidized by an annual compulsory subscription of $2.25 per student. Next week the student body will decide by referendum whether to retain the subsidy or whether to throw the News into the stormy waters of free competition...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Radcliffe News | 2/20/1958 | See Source »

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