Word: saud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riyadh, the desert capital of Saudi Arabia, nervous courtiers have become accustomed to keeping one eye out for signs of revolt inspired by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one eye on the latest dispatches from the French Riviera. There, ailing King Saud, 61, is installed in Nice's gleaming Hotel Negresco in 55 rooms on the fifth floor with his veiled wives, concubines, a passel of offspring, courtiers and maids. Last week the rumors were flying along the Côte d'Azur that the dyspeptic Saud was sick unto death...
There seemed good reason for concern, for Saud is supposed to be suffering from hypertension, a weak heart, a polyp in his digestive tract, asthma, and Allah knows what else. When eleven doctors converged at his bedside, things looked, from the outside at least, pretty grim. It turned out that Saud was complaining about his liver (his own remedy: banana puree in Chantilly cream with five scoops of ice cream for breakfast), and his blood, for which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors...
...eager to join any alliance that can be hammered out. The monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan-close friends of the West but hated enemies of the Arab nationalists-face the threat of uprisings at the hands of powerful local friends of the man in Cairo. When King Saud's private Comet plane, equipped with a royal throne, crashed last week against an Italian mountain, killing all 18 aboard, the Saudi Arabs automatically assumed that it had been sabotaged by Nasser agents...
...impressive triumph for Egypt's Nasser, even if he had no direct hand in it. If so, there would be trouble for the hard-pressed kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as for the British-protected sheiks of the Persian Gulf. "Kassem has gone; soon Kings Saud and Hussein will go too," said a complacent Egyptian in Cairo. But first, Nasser's supporters were confident that the Iraqi coup would set off a succession of uprisings in neighboring Syria, which has already put down two pro-Nasser revolts since breaking off from Egypt...
Behind the scenes, the U.S. was exerting major efforts to contain the struggle. By recognizing Sallal's republican regime last month, Washington had delighted Egypt's Nasser and offended Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Now Washington hoped to deter Nasser and reassure Hussein and Saud by sending the U.S. destroyer Forrest Sherman on a "routine" visit to the Saudi seaport of Jidda-the hoary political device that hints of force. And, though it was laconically denied in Washington, sources in the Middle East insist that the U.S. has agreed to a Saudi request that antiaircraft batteries and radar-control...