Word: riad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Egypt announced that it was ready to end its 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...
Married. Prince Moulay Abdallah, 26, younger brother of Morocco's King Hassan II; and Lamia Solh, 26, golden-haired, Sorbonne-schooled daughter of onetime Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, who was assassinated in 1951; both for the first time; in Rabat, Morocco...
...triple wedding in Rabat's ornate Riad Palace last week was a fairly traditional Moslem affair. But King Hassan II departed from ancient convention: he wore a dark business suit while looking on from his pink throne. The three princesses all went through intricate prenuptial purification ceremonies, including a ritual dousing administered by female attendants. At the ceremony itself, they all wore veils. For Lalla Aisha, especially, the choice of husbands seemed felicitous. Her husband, Hassan al Yakoubi, is known as a widely traveled, fun-loving sportsman, more accustomed than most Moroccan men to the ways of emancipated women...