Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million deficit in his army budget and under fire for his close involvement with the U.S., nervously shot off last week to an oil pumping station on the Iraqi-Jordanian border to ask the aid of his royal cousin, King Feisal of Iraq. Arabia's King Saud, even as he conferred with Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun over ways and means of restoring reason to the aroused Arab nationalists, felt obliged to have his embassies through out the Mideast issue a denial that he had ever accepted the Eisenhower Doc trine...
Ludwig's personal fortune has been estimated as high as $350 million, including a 197-ft. $2,000,000 yacht, the Danginn, on which he has entertained celebrities ranging from Clark Gable to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. Aside from the yacht, Ludwig's only hobby is making money. To that end, he once ordered his designers to work out a way to carry oil in tankers' big hollow masts. When this proved impractical, Ludwig simply ordered his ships built from then on with no masts at all-just pipes to carry navigation lights...
Startled Guests. Outwardly his trip to Damascus looked a lot like the old "positive neutrality" sessions that King Saud used to hold with the Syrians and Egyptians before he took his stand beside Ike in Washington last winter against Communist penetration of the Middle East. Four MIG jets escorted his plane to Damascus' Mezze field, where the King stepped forth in flowing brown robes to review an honor guard, kiss the cheeks of President Shukri el Kuwatly and listen to purple-worded welcomes. Privately the King warned both Kuwatly and new Army Chief Afif Bizri (who denies U.S. allegations...
...Syrian Saud would not see was Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, the man who negotiated the Syrian-Soviet army deal. Azm had once accused Saud of being a friend of Israel and a tool of imperialists, and this the King would not forgive. Azm is an example of the kind of confused Arab nationalist that the Russians are doing so well with these days. At a recent banquet greeting a Russian delegation, Azm praised his startled guests by proclaiming, "The Soviet Union has fought Communism in our country...
...much in evidence during Saud's visit, but sailors from a visiting Soviet cruiser and destroyer filled Damascus' streets. As if he had not seen them, Saud issued a statement that "Syria cannot possibly be a cause of threat to any of her neighbors" (a public rebuke to Dulles), and left for home. Damascus' semiofficial Al Akhbar hailed the visit as "a new victory for Arab nationalism and a severe blow to imperialist politics." But in the kind of parting gesture Arabs make so much of, Saud shook hands with President Kuwatly, then before getting into...