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...wake of such other manifestations of civilization as oil rigs, Cadillacs, air-conditioning units and Coca-Cola, labor strife came last week to Saudi Arabia. The country's first real labor disturbance caught the government completely unprepared, for 73-year-old King Ibn Saud had never got around to making any law for or against strikes, while the devisers of the Moslem Sharia (sacred law) had never anticipated a Taft-Hartley world...
...Aramco (Arabian-American Oil Co.) employees may not keep dogs as pets. This is not a Saudi restriction; it is an Aramco ruling to appease the government of ailing, powerful Ibn Saud (Moslems consider dogs to be unclean...
...King Ibn Saud claims Buraimi as part of Saudi Arabia; and Britain, as "protector" of Trucial Oman, claims it for a Trucial Oman Sheik and the Sultan of Muscat. Since the summer of 1952, the claimants had fought their siege with angry words and glowering looks. Ibn Saud sent Emir Turki Ibn Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into...
...Glad to See You." From Mecca, Naguib went southeast to Taif. There, King Ibn Saud, sitting in a wheelchair, greeted Naguib with a cry of "Marhaba, marhaba!" (Welcome, welcome). Said Naguib: "Glad to see you, Your Majesty." Naguib gave Ibn Saud a huge (6½-by-5-ft.) photo of himself in a gilded frame; Ibn Saud gave his guest a gold sword, three Persian rugs, a fragment of holy carpet from the Kaaba. Later the two heads of state dined together and talked privately for 20 minutes. About Arab solidarity? Almost certainly...
...Saud, who last year got $200 million in royalties from U.S. oilmen, had been on friendly terms with Egypt's deposed King Farouk and called him "brother." Saudi delegates to the U.N. were under instructions to follow Egyptian policy. After Farouk's exile, relations between the two countries had cooled, and Saudi Arabia had withdrawn substantial sums from Cairo banks. Perhaps things would now warm up a little...