Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Milestone: the Baghdad Pact. The U.S. helped set up a new grouping of Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq designed to seal off the Middle East's northern tier, halfway supported the pact but did not join it, for fear of offending Saudi Arabia and India and of getting associated with British colonial power...
...dangers to India of Communist infiltration of "the huge Pan-Arab Islamic land mass," Moraes asked: "Is it in India's interest to permit the penetration of any one foreign power here, or indeed of one pervading internal influence, which would bring the Arab world from Morocco through Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf to the borders of West Pakistan...
...Amman's streets to buy gas at exorbitant prices. To alleviate the fuel shortage, the U.S. agreed to fly in 1,000 tons daily from Bahrein in the Persian Gulf, and to help out the economy gave Hussein $12.5 million. Symptomatic of current Arab fears of antagonizing Nasser, Saudi Arabia forbade the U.S. oil transports to fly over...
...Kassim, a tough and idealistic soldier who became Premier as well as Minister of Defense and the Interior. The man who became President of the Council of State, General Najeeb el-Rubaiya, was out of the country at the time; he was Iraq's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. By 6 a.m. the radio was trumpeting: "Citizens of Baghdad, the Monarchy is dead! The Republic is here!" Only one thing remained to be done: find Iraq's old strongman, pro-Western Nuri asSaid, 70, who had lived up to his nickname of "The Fox" by managing to escape...
...Great Britain's total oil requirements, though it does ship about 34% of France's current supply. Any cutoff of its oil could easily be made up by cracking the taps a fraction wider in other Mideast fields, such as those in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...