Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old strongman who boasts that he will "extend the Arab homeland from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf," became overnight the most vaunted hero since Saladin. Thirty-two governments, said his semi-official news service, acclaimed his deed, ranging from Communist China to Franco's Spain. Saudi Arabia's King Saud sent Nasser a personal message: "I am with Egypt with all I possess." Jordan's young King Hussein cabled that Nasser's victories must bring "Arabism's hopeful tomorrow when our flag will fly proudly and dearly over the [Palestine] they have...
Cairo. Replacing Henry A. Byroade in precarious Nasser-land: Raymond Arthur Hare, 55, Director General of the Foreign Service since 1954, an old Mid-East specialist with embassy service in Beirut, Teheran, Cairo and Jidda in the 1930s and '40s, as ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in 1950 and '53. Dapper Ray Hare, who looks like Ronald Colman, has a profound knowledge of Arab society and economic life, but no previous ties with Nasser, hence symbolizes a fresh, new era of U.S.-Egyptian policy...
Bases. The U.S. was having trouble renewing its lease on the Arabian air base at Dhahran-with Saudi Arabia's King Saud holding out for big new shipments of U.S. arms. State watched with apprehension Iceland's election campaign in which four of the five contending parties were boasting about how they intended to kick the U.S. out of its base at Keflavik...
...left for the Middle East, Eugene R. Black, president of the World Bank, was late for a Saturday golfing date in Washington. Apologizing to the other members of his foursome-Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. and U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth-he explained: "I was being interviewed all morning by George Bookman for a TIME cover story...
...Baumgartner. Flying on to Iran, Banker Black talked about accelerating Iran's seven-year, $930 million development program which is paid for by oil royalties. Since oil revenues are low, Black was working out a $32.5 million loan to get things rolling. This week Black moved on to Saudi Ara bia, where oil money is often frittered rather than being spent on economic projects to improve the lot of the people. On the invitation of King Saud, he will advise the Saudis on how to invest their wealth more wisely...