Word: saud
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...eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...things temporarily quieted down, it became increasingly clear that the pivotal behavior of one man played a large part in rescuing young King Hussein from Nasser and his hotbloods. The man: King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Protector of Islam's Holy Places. From the moment Nasser seized and then blocked the Suez Canal, casually cutting off much of Saudi Arabia's oil income in the process, Saud began to see that there would be no place for him or any king in the Arab "nation" Nasser talked about. Nor could Saud abide the sight of Communist influence that...
...Assassinate an Ally. Out of secretive Saudi Arabia last week came a well authenticated story of the risk that King Saud himself took in doing so. Saudi security police in Riyadh arrested a gang of ex-Palestinian and Egyptian plotters armed with guns, grenades and explosives. The men admitted planning the King's assassination, and were said to have implicated Egypt's military attaché, Colonel Ali Khashaba. The King's reaction was to kick out a flock of Egyptians and ex-Palestinians (who in his illiterate country dominate administration services and the schools). Then he backed...
...journeyed to Riyadh, where the desert King lectured the two of them like a displeased father and more or less ordered them to stop interfering in Jordan's "strictly internal" affairs. No sooner had they left (without even the formality of the usual communique praising Arab "unity"), than Saud got on the phone again to invite Hussein to Riyadh. Hussein hustled down by air last week, and King Saud gave him a big pep talk on the importance of keeping up the good fight against Communists and extremists. He sent him back to Amman with a large gift...
...Submerge a Feud. Later this month King Saud will visit Baghdad to see Iraq's 22-year-old King Feisal, and perhaps his Hashemite cousin, Hussein of Jordan, too. Together these three Kings control a huge hunk of the Arab Middle East and the vast bulk of its economic resources. If Saud can submerge his old feuds with the Hashemites, an effective counterweight to Nasser (and to his lone ally, Syria) will have been built up in the Arab world itself...