Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke into Moslem shops and fought with police; when the police opened fire five died. Some Hindu extremists, organizing a boycott of Moslem rug dealers and lockmakers, shouted that Pakistani agents had "cooked up the whole thing" to embarrass Nehru on the eve of his departure to visit King Saud in the Moslem holy land. Police, some of them dressed as Moslem women, prowled the mosques and bazaars and arrested 500 Moslems...
...that because of Senator John Bricker's repeated assaults on the President's treaty-making power, "our present Administration feels it cannot sign treaties affecting internal problems." The likelier reason, which no one would admit to, is that the U.S. did not wish to offend King Saud, and thereby endanger the Dhahran airbase negotiations or Aram-co's valuable oil interests in Saudi Arabia...
...that he will "extend the Arab homeland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf," became overnight the most vaunted hero since Saladin. Thirty-two governments, said his semi-official news service, acclaimed his deed, ranging from Communist China to Franco's Spain. Saudi Arabia's King Saud sent Nasser a personal message: "I am with Egypt with all I possess." Jordan's young King Hussein cabled that Nasser's victories must bring "Arabism's hopeful tomorrow when our flag will fly proudly and dearly over the [Palestine] they have stolen from us." The only...
...bigger ships, by 1951 claimed the world's biggest tanker: the 31,745-ton World Unity. Supertankers kept right on growing; by 1954 the biggest tanker was Niarchos' 45,509-ton World Glory. Two years ago Onassis took the title with his 46,500-ton Al Malik Saud Al-Awal. Early this year-Nkrchos launched the 47,750-ton Spyros Niarchos (named for his late father), which last month in Rotterdam broke all tanker records by discharging a 41,000-ton cargo (287,000 bbls.) in 17 hours 48 minutes...
Bases. The U.S. was having trouble renewing its lease on the Arabian air base at Dhahran-with Saudi Arabia's King Saud holding out for big new shipments of U.S. arms. State watched with apprehension Iceland's election campaign in which four of the five contending parties were boasting about how they intended to kick the U.S. out of its base at Keflavik...