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...throne. Taking over virtually all powers in 1958, Feisal proceeded to turn in surplus budgets and stabilize the faltering rial at five to the dollar. He clipped the King's and the princes' spending money until they howled. He also patched up Saud's feud with Nasser, who was understandably annoyed at reports that Saud had spent $5,000,000 trying to have him assassinated. But Feisal had his shortcomings. Says a Saudi merchant: "He would not delegate authority. Feisal had great, almost puritanical integrity, but he was not a man of decision. His desk piled high...
...given up few of their forebears' fabled prerogatives; but he will need all the sympathy he can get for his proposed second marriage (the first, to Queen Dina, ended in divorce in 1957 after she had borne him a daughter). Hussein has lately been mending his fences with Nasser to secure his shaky throne, and a British Queen in Amman is hardly to Cairo's liking. Moreover, two-thirds of Jordan's population are Palestinian refugees from British partition days. Hussein's choice of a British girl was made in defiance of the counsel...
...phalanx of Soviet militiamen. In Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, La Paz, Caracas, Mexico City and Buenos Aires, unruly mobs of students and workers milled in the streets and battled with police and one another. In Tokyo, left-wing students and Communists stormed around the U.S. embassy. In Egypt, Nasser-organized squads of yelling youths tried to storm the U.S. mission in Cairo...
...Caleb pulled into Alexandria last week for the last stop of the trip, Fellow Neutralist Gamal Abdel Nasser of the U.A.R. greeted Tito warmly and escorted him on a tour of the city, along streets crowded with cheering Egyptians who unspontaneously shouted: "Long live Tito and Nasser, leaders of positive neutralism!" The boss of the U.A.R. beamed as Tito reported that the neutralist doctrine was doing well just about everywhere down south. But it was just possible that Nasser, having his own ambitions in the lands to the south, would have preferred to have the neutralist gospel all to himself...
...growing commercial community, which includes a large number of Palestinian Arabs. They resent the sheiks' autocratic rule (nobody has a vote in Kuwait, and sheiks head all the government offices) and listen avidly to the inflammatory broadcasts from Cairo. They bewail the fact that membership in Nasser's "One Arab Nation" is still denied them. Declared one of the disgruntled: "How can we be happy when so many other Arabs are miserable...