Word: saif
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
...accident that, even as Davies, Phillips and friends signed their final papers, Yemen's Prince Saif al-Islam Abdullah stepped from a big Phillips Petroleum Co. plane at Bartlesville. He looked just like an oilman in sheikh's clothing. For eight days he had been sumptuously dined (but not wined, since Moslem custom forbids it) by Phillips' vice president in charge of public relations. He had been flown on a quick tour of Oklahoma, Texas and California oil fields and refineries. At Oklahoma City, a sheep was roasted for the Prince; at Borger, Tex. he got eggplant...