Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasser finally decided to step in personally, last week swallowed his pride and journeyed to Jedda for face-to-face talks with Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Feisal has been backing the royalists with money and munitions, just as Nasser has been backing the republicans, so if a swift solution is possible they should be the men to find it. In Cairo, where Egyptians are weary of a distant war that costs $1,000,000 a day in addition to thousands of casualties, there was a gush of exultation. The daily Al Akhbar printed a cartoon showing Nasser riding...
...offensive in Yemen. In preparation, the Egyptian expeditionary force was beefed up to 48,000 men, and a fresh array of Soviet-made tanks, heavy artillery and jet planes was massed in the north, where the deposed Imam Badr makes his headquarters in a cave near the Saudi Arabian border. Republican President Abdullah Sallal fired his moderate Premier and gave Yemen's tough General Hassan Amri a mandate to take charge...
...Egyptian army in a bloody and endless war. In fact, everyone is fed up. The royalist tribes have had their villages bombed to rubble and lost an estimated 40,000 dead. The republican tribes resent their overbearing Egyptian allies, and are discouraged by lack of success in the field. Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, who backs the Imam, would be happy to see the Egyptians leave Yemen and an end to the subsidy of Maria Theresa thalers used by the Imam to bribe tribes away from the republicans and keep the mountain Zeidis contented...
...into Greece's Kavouri hotel for a while. The beach resort south of Athens has turned over all but twelve of its 72 rooms to Saudi Arabia's ex-King Saud and retinue, who spend $33,333 a day. Six of Saud's 47 sons also came along for the ride. Some ride. Piloting five Maseratis, a Buick Riviera and a Cadillac as if they had all Araby to maneuver in, they have careered into two pedestrians, busted a bus, wrecked a private car and demolished a lamppost. After all, the more gas they burn, the richer...
...such weakness is that Moslem devotion, outside of rural areas where social pressure to conform runs strong, is often little more than skin-deep. Morocco still fines men caught smoking during Ramadan, and Malaya's Moslem courts zealously crack down on khalwat (close association of the sexes). Saudi Arabia has neither alcohol nor movies, but even here faith is succumbing to the influences of modernism: this year Jeddah will have a TV station...