Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middle East, where hates flare and die with the course of the sun, there is no letup in the feud between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who leads the Arab world's revolutionary camp, and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who leads the conservative forces...
Traveling Salesman. That prospect is anathema to Saudi Arabia's monarch, King Feisal, the ruler of the largest and richest of the moderate Arab nations. Last week Feisal wound up a 28-day, five-nation tour in President Habib Bourguiba's Tunisia-his latest trip in ten months to promote his projected Islamic summit meeting in Mecca. While
...Saudi Arabia's government-controlled newspapers call the rulers of Egypt "butchers," and Cairo's press summons all good Arabs to "a battle of destiny" against Feisal, the King himself preaches Islamic brotherhood and cooperation. "President Nasser is one of our great Moslem leaders," says Feisal, "and it is inconceivable that he should consider our Islamic call to be aimed against...
...been crumbling almost ever since, and last week with the approach of the fourth such summit, scheduled for Algiers on Sept. 5, it had all but collapsed. Nasser, joined by his Arab Socialist allies, was demanding an end of summitry "until we can be assured things will go right." Saudi Arabia's King Feisal was demanding that the summit go on as scheduled-with or without Nasser...
...grab back the initiative. In an angry broadcast three weeks ago, Egypt's leader called for an "indefinite postponement" of the Algiers summit, declaring: "We cannot sit side by side with reactionary elements." That seemed to kill any chance of a summit. Then last week, Feisal announced that Saudi Arabia would not go along with postponement. "More than ever before," said Feisal, "there is dire necessity for Arab summit conferences, in order to unify the Arab effort." Moreover, said Feisal, his country, which is the Middle East's second highest contributor ($22.4 million) to Arab summit organizations, would...