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...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...
...revenues are low, Black was working out a $32.5 million loan to get things rolling. This week Black moved on to Saudi Ara bia, where oil money is often frittered rather than being spent on economic projects to improve the lot of the people. On the invitation of King Saud, he will advise the Saudis on how to invest their wealth more wisely...
...pursued the contrasts to Dhahran, where Saudi Arabian workmen drew top pay as technicians at Aramco's vast refinery while some of their countrymen bought and sold slaves ($150 for an able-bodied man, $300 for a boy and $600 for a girl). Though he reported that King Saud was using his U.S. oil dollars to finance Arab nationalism's whole anti-Western drive-paying some $500,000 a month to politicians and editors in the Middle East-Alsop found him playing the role reluctantly, the captive of the movement centering in Egypt...