Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendly Iraq Richards signed a $12.5 million program of regional highway, railroad and telecommunication projects linking and strengthening the Baghdad Pact's four Middle East members: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. In Saudi Arabia he got along with King Saud; their joint communique at visit's end affirmed opposition to "Communist activities" more forthrightly than Washington had expected, considering Saud's formal adherence to Egyptian Dictator Gamal-Abdel Nasser's policy of "positive neutrality." Last week Dick Richards convinced Emperor Haile Selassie that the Eisenhower Doctrine did not mean interference in Ethiopian affairs-and impressed...
Common Fear. In the Jordan showdown, army and Cabinet leftists were working for some sort of federation with Syria and Nasser's Egypt. But when the King moved against them, Iraq's King Feisal and Saudi Arabia's King Saud forgot their old rivalries to join in backing Hussein against any Syrian army intervention...
What unites the three kings is a common fear of the Communist influence that Nasser and the Syrian army extremists have brought into the Middle East by their arms deals. Within the past month both Saud and Feisal have heard ex-Congressman James Richards, President Eisenhower's special representative...
...Ambassador and Ike-Doctrine Salesman James P. Richards. The announcement: the U.S. will provide the pact's four Middle Eastern members (Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey) with $12.5 million in Eisenhower Doctrine funds to spur "regional" highway, railroad, telecommunication projects. In Saudi Arabia, Richards scored heavily with King Saud, who bought deeper into the Eisenhower Doctrine by issuing a joint communique promising "to oppose Communist activities, other forms of imperialism and any other dangers that threaten peace and stability in the area...
Swearing on the Koran. He began by sending off his court minister with letters telling his allies, Nasser, Saud and the Syrian President, what he meant to do. (Saud's generous reply: "You will always find me on your side in person and with my forces.") The Jordanian Cabinet's taunting response was to propose establishing diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. For the young King, the moment had come. First summoning 50 top army officers to the palace and exacting loyalty pledges, he demanded the Cabinet's resignation. Nabulsi, a left-wing and anti-Western economist (educated...