Word: saud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a symbolic object of contention between the Middle East's two most powerful Arab factions. On one side is Nasser's Egypt, which supports the Sallal regime. On the other side is feudal Saudi Arabia, which backs Badr. Allied with Saudi Arabia's King Saud is Jordan's young King Hussein, 28, who believes that "if Saud goes...
Beirut by paying $25 for a $1 shot of Scotch. Mansour's father, King Saud, 60, communes with his concubines four times a day: before morning prayers, after lunch, before dinner, and at night. Saud, apparently frightened of a Yemen-style coup, has for weeks slept each night in a different bedroom of his palace. He has put top military men under house arrest, is surrounded by 200 of Hussein's Jordanian guards, dressed in Saudi uniforms, because he considers them more reliable than his own Saudis. His air force has been grounded since September, when seven pilots...
...Saud's long-term hopes for the survival of his monarchy depend on his brother, able, austere Crown Prince Feisal, whom Saud installed as his new, trouble-shooting Premier. Feisal set jp a new Cabinet, promised free medical care and education, abolished slavery. He also planned new public morality committees to back up the religious police run by Moslem mullahs. "It is high time." he says, "to introduce some fundamental reforms. But who is more worthy than we, the sons of Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, to handle the affairs of our country...
...ruling monarchs, Saud and Hussein were worried that revolution in Yemen might easily spread to their own lands.* Two armies of about 1,000 men each, most raised from Yemenite tribesmen in Saudi territory, invaded Yemen, but Sallal swiftly assembled his ragtag Yemenite army and, with the help of Soviet arms and Egyptian planes, drove the royalists back across the border into Saudi Arabia and Britain's Aden Protectorate. Twenty-five nations, from Russia to Indonesia, promptly recognized Sallal's regime. The U.S. and Britain, trapped between their alliances with the remaining Arab monarchies and their concern...
...Saudi Arabia, King Saud was so alarmed by the defection of four of his air force planes and their crews to Egypt that he resigned the office of Premier, turned it over to his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, a popular, able and tough-minded nationalist who believes in austerity and reform...