Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands and eating ice cream, are not highly esteemed as fighting men. They are sloppy and undisciplined, and their presence had always been much more of a threat to Jordan than to Israel. The troops' departure was speeded by Hussein's influential new ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, who persuaded both Syria and Egypt that it would be better for the Syrians...
...Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...Gulf of Aqaba and began to pump off its load of 16,500 tons of oil from Iran. Its arrival was almost unremarked. The U.N. troops still occupy the Egyptian side of the narrows, so Egypt could not shoot off its guns. No guns barked from the Saudi Arabian shores either, though Saudi Arabia had threatened to bar the Aqaba Gulf to unwanted ships. Israel, which had celebrated the Kern Hills' first voyage with crowing triumph, this time censored news of its arrival, apparently concluding that the safest way to keep the Gulf open was to avoid stirring...
...things temporarily quieted down, it became increasingly clear that the pivotal behavior of one man played a large part in rescuing young King Hussein from Nasser and his hotbloods. The man: King Saud of Saudi Arabia, Protector of Islam's Holy Places. From the moment Nasser seized and then blocked the Suez Canal, casually cutting off much of Saudi Arabia's oil income in the process, Saud began to see that there would be no place for him or any king in the Arab "nation" Nasser talked about. Nor could Saud abide the sight of Communist influence that...
...Assassinate an Ally. Out of secretive Saudi Arabia last week came a well authenticated story of the risk that King Saud himself took in doing so. Saudi security police in Riyadh arrested a gang of ex-Palestinian and Egyptian plotters armed with guns, grenades and explosives. The men admitted planning the King's assassination, and were said to have implicated Egypt's military attaché, Colonel Ali Khashaba. The King's reaction was to kick out a flock of Egyptians and ex-Palestinians (who in his illiterate country dominate administration services and the schools). Then he backed...