Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier left Suez. There to celebrate the occasion was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. As 20,000 Egyptians cheered, Nasser called the British-from Queen to commoner-"sons of bitches," sneered at his critics, and ridiculed as a pair of "nuts" Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud because they oppose Egypt's military venture in Yemen, where Nasser supports the rebel Abdullah Sallal...
...Republic, I shall not recognize it!" The U.S. was not exactly cowed by Sallal's threat, but it was anxious to quarantine the civil war in Yemen before it engulfed the whole Middle East-a distinct possibility, with Egypt's President Nasser lined up behind Sallal and Saudi Arabia and Jordan supporting the deposed Imam Mohamed el Badr. Last week, after nearly three months of hesitation, the U.S. became the 34th nation to recognize the Yemen Arab Republic...
...Sallal proclaimed Yemen's "firm policy to honor its international obligations"-including a 1934 treaty pledging respect for Britain's Aden Protectorate, home of a troublemaking Yemeni minority. In Cairo, Nasser's government promised to "start gradual withdrawal" of its 18,000-man expeditionary force, "provided Saudi and Jordanian forces also retire from border regions." But Nasser will leave swarms of technicians and advisers behind...
Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Feisal, who fear that the example of a successful revolution in Yemen will spark trouble within their own kingdoms, were acknowledged by U.S. officials to be "extremely unhappy." The U.S. is aware of their fears, but is gambling that the example of Yemen will prove a spur to reform rather than revolution in all the Middle East's monarchies...
...hero, or villain, of the antispending, anticorruption drive is tall, hawk-nosed Crown Prince Feisal, 57, who was hurriedly called home last October by his brother, King Saud, when revolution in neighboring Yemen threatened Saudi Arabia's feudal regime. "We are discouraging unnecessary luxury and wast," said Prince Feisal last week in his Red Palace in the capital city of Riyadh. "We have stopped playing with money. We are now devoting all our resources to vital and beneficial projects and, thanks to Allah, we have great resources: nearly 50 billion barrels in proven oil reserves and $400 million...