Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Predictably, it was an Arab who exposed the rawest nerve of all. Without waiting for the Algerian rebels themselves to reply to De Gaulle's new peace plan (see below), Saudi Arabia's Ahmad Shukairy denounced France, De Gaulle, the new peace plan, and the French military in Algeria, whom he labeled torturers "with a thirst for blood." At this, the entire French delegation walked...
...adventurer. He has recorded guitar music of the 16th century for Washington Records, performed in concert halls including the National Gallery of Art. played his own flamenco guitar score for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...
...Saudi Arabia. The relaxed pressure of Arab nationalism has saved the day for the wealthy autocratic Saud family. Brother Feisal, now in charge, is introducing tightfisted budgeting at long last, while financially strapped King Saud has just left for Germany to look at some of his greenbacks sequestered there and to see a doctor...
...religious procedures required of a pilgrim and arranging food and lodging for the entire trip. Life used to be grim in Jidda during the ten days of the hadj, as heat-sick pilgrims squatted in the streets gathering strength for the 46-mile trek to Mecca. But newly rich Saudi Arabia has recently built a "Pilgrim City"-a roofed compound, equipped with food shops, electricity, running water and toilets. Here pilgrims wait out a three-day quarantine before inspection by doctors...
...imported each year; ordinary pilgrims cut the throat of a goat for about $20; the rich may kill a cow or even a camel. The meat is supposed to be distributed to the poor, but for want of transport, thousands of carcasses are left rotting on the ground. The Saudi Arabian government is considering setting up a cannery to preserve the flesh...