Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clinched with Saudi Arabia the final details of the Dhahran air-base agreement worked out by President Eisenhower and King Saud during the King's visit to Washington (TIME, Feb. 18). The Saudis extended U.S. access to the vital strategic base, 1,000 miles south of Russia's Baku oilfields, for another five years. In return, the U.S. will give the Saudis some $50 million worth of services in the period by helping improve Saudi Arabian civil-aviation facilities, setting up or extending present U.S. training programs for the Saudi army, air force and navy...
WASHINGTON, April 8--The United States and Saudi Arabia today announced formal agreement on the five-year airfield-for-arms pact approved last February by President Eisenhower and King Saud...
Their decision to subdue Serraj dates from the Cairo conference of Arab leaders when Arabia's King Saud, fresh from his U.S. visit, pointedly lectured Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly on the importance of fighting Communist infiltration. Emboldened by Saud's advice, portly, opportunistic Shukri el Kuwatly went back to Damascus, called in Chief of Staff Tewfiq Nizam el Din, and drew up orders transferring some 120 pro-Serraj army officers to out-of-the-way posts. For Serraj himself, Kuwatly and Nizam el Din chose an ironically suitable post: Syrian representative to the joint Arab...
...American Guild of Variety Artists slapped the name of Saudi Arabia's non-union King Saud (TIME, Jan. 28) on its "unfair list."* Saud's misdeed consisted of his commanding an Egyptian acrobatic troupe, now playing in his desert kingdom, to stay for some more performances, thus preventing the alley-oop specialists from keeping an imminent engagement...
...Cairo radio shrilled that Saudi Arabia would prevent Israeli shipping from passing through the Gulf of Aqaba. If true (and at week's end the Saudis had neither confirmed nor denied), this was a double challenge to the U.S. because it 1) considers Saudi Arabia's King Saud a force for stability and order in the Mideast, and 2) has pledged itself to the principle of free and innocent passage in the Gulf of Aqaba...