Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, son Talal, now King of Jordan, climbed down from a plane at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's seat of government, and a faltering old man hobbled over to embrace him. The old man was Ibn Saud. A military band boomed out the Jordanian national anthem and 21 guns cracked a salute. Hashemite and hated enemy had got together. That evening, 71-year-old Ibn Saud, father of more than 30 living sons, gave one of the most magnificent dinners of his life. Afterward, the one-eyed old lion of the desert and the gloomy, unstable King of Jordan...
Visiting one of the factories in the Buffalo, N.Y. area, Prince Sultan Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia found just what he wanted on a jukebox assembly line. He picked out six of the biggest mechanical marvels and had them shipped home to his palace...
Abdul Aziz ibn Saud (71), King of Saudi Arabia, adds up, statistically, to nine old battle wounds, some 40 sons, and 750,000 barrels of crude oil which Saudi Arabia produces daily. In ideas, he adds up to hatred of the Jews, strict devotion to the letter of the Mohammedan religion, and friendship for the U.S., though he is furious at President Truman's support of Israel. Ibn Saud used to live off tolls he collected from Mecca pilgrims, but the Arabian-American Oil Co. proved even more lucrative, made Ibn Saud one of the world's richest...
Last week, his greatest adversary eliminated, the Mufti schemed to wipe out his adversary's country itself. He met secretly in Cairo's Semiramis Hotel with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both oldtime opponents of Abdullah and the British. They agreed on a plan to tack Jordan on to a Greater Syria. In this way they would put a finish...
...Britain's old scheme for uniting Jordan with Iraq into a single, pro-British kingdom that would dominate the Arab world. The Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister was sent to London to sell the plan. Britain would be promised bases in the new Greater Syria. If it rejected the plan (as it undoubtedly would), the Middle East might lapse back into terrorism...