Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saud Approves Plan...
Working out its new policy for the Middle East, the U.S. has sighted on Saudi Arabia's King Saud as a Middle East ruler with a close grip on reality. How close the grip and how important the ally was intimated when President Eisenhower announced that in welcoming Saud to Washington this week for a three-day state visit, he would depart from his long-standing custom. Instead of greeting the King on the White House steps as he has done in the past with other chiefs of state, Ike will go to Washington's National Airport, welcome...
...about $36 million a year to Jordan in place of the old British subsidy. But nobody in Amman who knows the score thinks the new deal is worth much because the "donors" themselves are pinched and overdrawn, even the oil-rich Saudi Arabians. The State Department expects King Saud to tell President Eisenhower this week that only Saud can save Jordan, and that the only way to do it is to give him the money to pay Jordan. On Saud's heels will come Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah, who will undoubtedly argue that the Hashemite kingdom...
...floors were redolent with clouds of the King's special incense and grey-and-purple-robed guards swirled through the lobby. The retinue includes a royal barber, two royal coffeemakers and a special guard with the title "Keeper of His Majesty's Jewels." Only woman in Saud's retinue is the Lebanese nurse of five-year-old Prince Mashur, whose arms are partially paralyzed from some disease or accident in infancy. The King brought the boy along in the hope that U.S. doctors can cure or help him. At week's end, Saud boarded the U.S.S...
Just what the U.S. and Saud could do for each other in the Middle East was not yet clear to either of them. What was clear was that just now neither could usefully declare himself out loud: Saud, for example, could not be expected to denounce Nasser...