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...live in air-conditioned houses. They have swimming pools hooded against the noonday sun and athletic fields floodlighted for night play. But as its Saudi employees learn to live more like Americans, Aramco itself becomes more Saudi. In its relations with the government and 53-year-old King Saud, Aramco maintains a policy so studiously circumspect that sometimes it seems to its younger workers to be downright spineless. Often it proves bitter as gall to the American workers...
Royal Suggestions. Aramco's American employees in Saudi Arabia took it hard, when more than two years ago old King Ibn Saud imposed prohibition. They have, with some grumbling, accepted a ban on importing books, which apparently was intended to foil the entry of subversive literature. They haven't even fought the decree that bans driving licenses for women outside the company compound- although deep underneath there is a seething feminine ferment about...
...Bastion in FOREIGN NEWS deals with the recently concluded Iraq-Turkey defense treaty to which I would like to add a footnote supplied by Keith Wheeler, our Middle East correspondent. Wheeler was dining with KING SAUD of Saudi Arabia the night the King got the news that the treaty had been signed. Cabled Wheeler on the King's reaction: "It is his custom to have an official crier call out the latest news bulletins during meals. The treaty news was bad news for the Arabs. It came between the turkey with green beans and the steak with truffles...
...miffed-particularly Egypt, which has long fancied itself the leader of the Arab world and wants to keep the Arab world uncommitted for now in the cold war. Egypt's pique at Iraq's "betrayal" was shared most loudly by oil-rich Saudi Arabia, whose ruling Al Saud family hates Iraq's Hashemite royal house. Some other members of the Arab League-notably Jordan and Lebanon-are eying the Turkish-Iraqi pact furtively, and under the right circumstances might be persuaded to join. Iraq's bold step has all but finished the Arab League...
Ever since Aristotle Socrates Onassis signed an agreement with King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz to form a company for shipping Saudi Arabian oil (TIME, Feb. 22), the Greek-born tanker tycoon has found his scuppers awash with criticism. Other shippingmen attacked the deal as a step toward monopolizing the shipment of Saudi Arabian oil;* the British and U.S. Governments both protested to Saudi Arabia that the deal would squeeze out shipping companies now carrying the oil. And Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco) complained that its interests as a producer were endangered...