Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more this week at the social season linked delicately to an extension of U.S. diplomatic activity on many fronts. Heading the calendar: a three day state visit, beginning Jan. 30, by one of the world's last absolute monarchs, Saudi Arabia's bespectacled ghutra-draped King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud. Scheduled before Suez to visit Washington for discussions on the U.S. air base at Dhahran, influential King Saud comes after Suez for conferences of a nature far more serious to the Middle East in general...
...their talks emerged the possibility that the moribund Baghdad Pact might be transmuted into something else -a purely Moslem pact against Soviet penetration. For some time Saudi Arabia's King Saud, despite his feud with the ruling Hashemite family in Iraq, has been moving gradually toward a rapprochement with Iraq, based on the common interest of the two largest oil-producing lands of the Arab world. (Saud fears that Syrians may blow up the U.S.-owned Tapline from his oil fields as they blew up the Iraqi pipeline.) From their new awareness could emerge an inner order...
Saudi Arabia (pop. 7,000,000). King Saud, world's most absolute ruler, is strongly antiCommunist. He is pro-U.S., relying for nearly 90% of his revenues on oil from the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co.'s fields. A Nasser ally, he has fought with British over control of neighboring oil sheikdoms. Saud fears that recently Nasser has gone too far, thinks his nationalizing the canal has endangered the King's oil profits. Violently anti-Israeli, Saud is obviously disturbed by Egypt's poor military performance against Israel, also dislikes Nasser's playing...
...guests of Lebanon's President Camille Chamoun, Kings, Presidents and other potentates met secretly in a UNESCO villa on the outskirts of Beirut. Escorted by goggled Lebanese motorcycle cops and gowned Bedouins armed with golden daggers and Tommy guns, Saudi Arabia's King Saud arrived in a heavily curtained Cadillac. Setting aside old blood feuds, Iraq's young King Feisal and his cousin, Jordan's Hussein, Hashemites both, addressed Saud respectfully as "Father." Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly was on hand, freshly back from a visit to Moscow. In this impressive panoply, only Nasser...
...Egyptian air force had shot down 18 Israeli planes and had been "in control of the battlefield" until the "great deception, treachery, perfidy" of Anthony Eden. The fact that none of the other Arab states gave Egypt active military assistance was also, said Nasser, part of Egyptian strategy. "King Saud called me by telephone," said the Egyptian President, "and told me that the Saudi Arabian army and money were at Egypt's service." So, he declared, did Jordan's young King Hussein and Syria's President El Kuwatly. "My answer was that we were worried about Jordan...