Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion was Unity Day, the annual observance that oddly celebrates Egypt's short-lived union with Syria. Warming to his subject, Nasser accused Saudi Arabia's King Feisal of financing a plot against him last summer, and of trying to form a conservative, anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. "Their object," Nasser steamed, "is to destroy Arab nationalism and unity." And who are the real architects behind the alliance? "Obviously," Nasser answered, "Washington and London." With that, Nasser all but tore up the six-month-old Egyptian-Saudi truce on Yemen, declaring...
...disunity and Egypt's heavy reliance on American foodstuffs put a damper on indignation-and so did the nimble manner in which Washington handled the revelation. By sending 100 tanks to Jordan last fall and then teaming with the British in a $400 million air-defense deal with Saudi Arabia, the U.S. had quelled cries of favoritism even before they could be raised. Only Syria and Yemen (which get most of their aid from Russia) seemed likely to break off relations with Washington...
...petroleum, the Japanese, besides drilling in Sumatra, are partners in a venture with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, this year will receive 68 million bbls. from the tri-nation Arabian Oil Co., which is operating in offshore Kuwait...
...judiciary. At Helou's prodding, the Supreme Judicial Council in December fired 13 prominent judges whose "irregularities" were well known. Last week the diplomatic service was called up on its own red carpet. Sacked "for not properly representing Lebanon" were the ambassadors to Russia, Iran, Cyprus, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Senegal and Argentina (the ambassadors to Britain and Egypt had quit beforehand...
Ahead were seven days of banquets, military inspections and private talks. And if the rumors being spread by the Arab socialist press could be believed, what they would be talking about was a conservative anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" among Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iran. This was vast exaggeration, but there was no blinking the fact that the Three Kings of Orient had been drawing closer together, settling their differences and emerging as a force that could prove to be an important balance against the socialist countries of the Middle East...