Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruling monarchs, Saud and Hussein were worried that revolution in Yemen might easily spread to their own lands.* Two armies of about 1,000 men each, most raised from Yemenite tribesmen in Saudi territory, invaded Yemen, but Sallal swiftly assembled his ragtag Yemenite army and, with the help of Soviet arms and Egyptian planes, drove the royalists back across the border into Saudi Arabia and Britain's Aden Protectorate. Twenty-five nations, from Russia to Indonesia, promptly recognized Sallal's regime. The U.S. and Britain, trapped between their alliances with the remaining Arab monarchies and their concern...
...with 4,000 troops and began blasting away with tank guns. At first, the rebels believed that the new Imam had died in the ruins, but belatedly they learned that Badr had escaped, reportedly disguised as a Bedouin woman, and made his way to the safety of Saudi Arabia, whose King Saud, together with Jordan's King Hussein, pledged men, money and munitions to the overthrow of Sallal...
...Saudi Arabia, King Saud was so alarmed by the defection of four of his air force planes and their crews to Egypt that he resigned the office of Premier, turned it over to his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, a popular, able and tough-minded nationalist who believes in austerity and reform...
Yamasaki has designed everything from an office building, a plush suburban home, and a downtown mall to a freeway. He has done the famous Reynolds Metals Building near Detroit, several house of worship, the U.S. consulate in Kobe, Japan, an airport in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. pavilion for the 1959 World Agriculture Fair in India...
...1950s, rising Arab nationalism led to frequent border raids by Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The Yemenites indignantly claim the entire Aden region as South Yemen. In response, Britain decided to band the protectorate's pint-sized potentates into a federation. After some kicking and screaming, eleven of the 23 sheikdoms joined up. Next, the British moved to merge Aden Colony with the protectorate to offset the independence agitation. Chief agitator: the city's Trades Union Congress, led by a bumptious, Redlining young airline clerk named Abdullah Asnag, whose slogan runs, "One People, One Yemen, God Is Great...