Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms and economic aid to the Arab nationalists of Syria and Egypt, he cried: "Is Nasser a Communist? Certainly not. But nevertheless we support Nasser. We have only one objective, that the peoples be freed from colonial dependence." Last week Pravda offered the pro-Western Arab states of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq "ready Soviet Union cooperation in economic development," if they too would accept "the same [i.e., neutralist] principles" as Syria and Egypt...
...Arabs as a charge of treason to the refugees, and Nasser has used this charge freely. (Last week, apparently to allay any such suspicion of softness to Israel, Jordan stirred up a fresh series of border incidents backed by a volley of accusations and recriminations.) But recently, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have shown private apprehension that the refugees may be turned against them by the clumsy maneuverings of Nasser and his Syrian pals...
...hastily called press conference, Hussein dropped all pretense of Arab brotherhood, declared flatly: "There is no doubt Egypt and Syria are just instruments of international Communism." Ten months ago Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia agreed to pay Jordan $35 million a year to replace the subsidy once supplied by Britain, but only Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its promise. "The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on," said Hussein. Next day he took off for the desert to celebrate his 22nd birthday with a picnic and duck shoot...
...start a riot, Nasser's 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...
...broken if Japan's new Arabian Oil Co. signs pending contract, upsetting the traditional 50-50 profit split. Terms of deal are still secret, but oilmen in U.S. and Tokyo say that Japanese company will pay about $2,000,000 a year to seek oil off shore of Saudi Arabia's half of Neutral Zone, will give 56% of profits and several other benefits to Saudi Arabia...