Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Jordan's Amman International Airport last week flew an unaccustomed visitor: King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, whose father's desert warriors drove Jordan's Hashemite dynasty out of Arabia 40 years ago. Last week the family feud was forgotten as the Jordanian army boomed out a 21-gun salute, and Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein exchanged embraces and bussed one another warmly on each cheek...
...Israel provides that every religious community is entitled to observe one day of rest a week, which means that Moslem communities close down on Friday, Jews on Saturday, Christians on Sunday-a situation that could conceivably lead to an ecumenical three-day weekend for all. In Saudi Arabia and Libya, Friday is kept strictly as Allah's day and Sunday is a normal work day; but in half-Christian Lebanon and Western-influenced Syria and Turkey, many Moslem businessmen close down on Friday only long enough to visit their mosques, although they shut down completely on Sunday. Jordan...
...fact, the only thing the delegates could agree on was a desire to recess the talks until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which began last week. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backed the Republicans and Royalists respectively, appealed to the delegates to continue the talks. But the Yemenis simply began to slip away. With their departure came the fear that the shooting might start again, for both sides have kept forces in a state of combat alert. Egyptians and Saudis immediately began strengthening their joint peace...
...bloody (100,000 battle deaths) fighting between insurgent Republicans and Royalist mountain tribesmen was actually convened by the principal backers of the two factions. The Republicans are supported by 70,000 Egyptian troops; the Royalist forces of deposed Imam Badr are backed by arms and money from Saudi Arabia and Britain. In September after the war turned into a stalemate, Saudi Arabian King Feisal and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser negotiated an uneasy ceasefire. Nasser's expeditionary force costs $500,000 a day to maintain; both he and Feisal seem more eager than the Yemenis for a firmer peace...
Ahmed Shukairy, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was outraged that not a single one of the 13 Arab League states had paid the assessments levied last September in Alexandria to build a Palestinian-Arab army, and only Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt had paid their dues for the political arms. In response, the deadbeat states demanded that Shukairy account for the funds he had already received, and one member accused Shukairy of spending $8,400 for custom-made suits at Rome's chic Caraceni tailors...