Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this country there will be one army with one loyalty," he said. "Anything else is an infringement of sovereignty and will not be tolerated." With that, Shukairy turned on Hussein, presumably with the tacit consent of Nasser, who is none too happy with Hussein's recent warmth toward Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, Nasser's bitterest Arab enemy. Wrote Cairo's semiofficial Al Goumhouria: "The Palestine Liberation Organization has no alternative but to enter a battle to the finish with the Jordanian ruler...
...most visible evidence of its impact, however, has been the quality of its graduates. When the founding conference of the United Nations met in San Francisco in 1945, among the Arab representatives were 19 A.U.B. graduates. Today its alumni include the U.N. Ambassadors from Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, as well as Sudan President Ismail el Azhari and Jordan Premier Wasfi...
Everyone at Washington's press lunch knew how Saudi Arabia's King Feisal would reply to a reporter's query about the Arab boycott of U.S. firms doing business with Israel. "Unfortunately," said Feisal, "Jews support Israel, and we consider those who provide assis tance to our enemies as our own enemies." Feisal's comment went down as smoothly as couscous...
...international incident. But no one appeared overly perturbed last week. The Waldorf rolled out the usual red carpet for the visiting monarch, the 35th-floor presidential suite was made fit for a King, and Feisal appeared content to dine (on cold shoulder?) in his quarters. "I think," said a Saudi official, "the King is above being angered by something trivial like this...
...visits to Williamsburg and other historic sites, or the friendly applause he was to hear at the U.N., where U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg dutifully attended a banquet for the King. Indeed, the furor effectively countered charges by leftist Arabs, led by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, that Saudi Arabia was merely a tool of the U.S. "On balance," mused a State Department expert, "this probably helps him in the Arab world...