Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event, got herself temporarily banned from the British embassy. When Queen Elizabeth came to the U.S., Evie carped at her for not letting "anybody know which of her evening gowns she'll don." Once Evie and her husband, who runs a family investment company, went to a Saudi Arabian party "just boiling to get a drink," and found that, in accordance with Moslem law. no liquor was being served. Next day. she wrote an indignant "when in Rome" column, and her relations with Saudi Arabia have been strained ever since...
...first time, the West seemed to be on the way to closing the gap. The method: a thin chain of defense positions across the Middle East's northern perimeter, to be built piece by piece in separate pacts between the U.S. and the states of Pakistan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Later, if Iran gets hold of itself internally, it would become another link. So would Afghanistan...
...Mediterranean and into Turkey. There, in the vicinity of Mount Ararat, the West's defenses end-and Soviet opportunity begins. An offensive rolling through Iran and on to Iraq 120 miles away might easily overrun the West's advanced air bases at Habbaniya (Iraq) and Dhahran (Saudi Arabia). It might also outflank Turkey and open the back door to Europe...
Countries Willing. Last May, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, touring the area in search of allies, arrived in Saudi Arabia, a dusty, disillusioned man. He had found the Arab world fragmented by fears and quarrels. In Riyadh, Dulles got the advice he needed from the dying old desert King, Ibn Saud. Arabs, explained Ibn Saud, would never agree to MEDO. They detest legalistic documents so crammed with fine print and annexes "as to resemble a telephone book...
...last week, without trumpet call or handout, the plan was under way. Leaders of Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are preparing to visit Pakistan. Shortly, the U.S. is expected to approve the first arms shipments to Pakistan...