Word: saud
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...knew, the Palestinian Arabs and refugees who comprise two-thirds of his 1,500,000 subjects were most susceptible of all the Middle East's Arabs to Nasser's new appeal to the ancient dream of Arab unity. Urgently, Hussein called on Saudi Arabia's King Saud and his cousin King Feisal of Iraq, to confer on a new union. Saud held aloof, but Feisal came...
...Western Lebanon, newspapers were quick to praise the unity move. In Jordan, where rabidly Arab-nationalist Palestinians comprise two-thirds of the population, wily Strongman Samir Rifai publicly proclaimed: "We support every effort to achieve this sort of union," then dashed for Saudi Arabia to urge King Saud to meet with Jordan's King Hussein and Iraq's King Feisal to form a counter-federation of the three kingdoms. Feisal was willing, but Saud...
...rantings produced not a murmur among Jordan's 500,000 Palestinian Arab refugees, and scores of refugee leaders trooped to the palace to pledge their loyalty. If Nasser's campaign had been designed to frighten Iraq's King Feisal or Saudi Arabia's Saud as a demonstration of what could be done to them, it failed even more miserably. Instead, it brought fresh evidence of the growing isolation of Egypt and Syria in the Arab world. Answering a plea from six Iraqi religious leaders, Feisal and Saud joined in denunciation of Nasser's methods. "These...
...Arabs had once again shown that Arab solidarity was only lip deep. King Saud was privately furious at the Syrians. His mediation efforts increased his stature with other Arabs; Syria's refusal of them cost Syria sympathy...
...evolution has not proceeded evenly, and in places like Saudi Arabia and Yemen it has yet to start. King Saud's wives and concubines are transported in air-conditioned Cadillacs with special one-way glass to guard them from prying eyes...