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...base facilities at Dhahran. The U.S. was slow to fulfill its side of the bargain. Last April the Saudis specifically asked to buy 18 light tanks. Six months later the State Department approved the Saudi purchase. In the midst of the furor, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador Sheikh Abdullah Al-Khayyal pointed out that his country had already paid for the tanks ($135,000 each) and therefore held legal title. Overhanging the whole issue was the fact that the Dhahran agreement expires next June 18 and must be renegotiated...
...Sheikh Ahmed Salem, 80, Egypt's shortest man (2 ft. 4 in.) traveled from his home in Upper Egypt to Cairo seeking Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser's help in recovering his stolen life savings, was photographed at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers solemnly paying his respects to Egypt's husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) strongman, who ordered police to investigate the theft immediately...
Rule of Thumb. In Cairo, Egypt, after listening to the complaint of Mrs. Zeinab Hassanein Eddine, 22, that her husband had slapped her, Judge Sheikh Mahmud Mikawi granted a divorce, ruled that although a husband may beat his wife with a cane "no thicker than a finger," he must not strike her on the face, which "reflects the beauty of woman...
...citizens of the tiny (Connecticut-size) Republic of Lebanon saw their first President, old Sheikh Beshara Khalil el Khoury, as a sort of fat and friendly George Washington, nicknamed him "Abu Kirsh" (Father of Belly). He helped to push first the Turks, later the French out of his land, ruled a nation split almost exactly between Christians and Moslems with such a talent for compromise that both sides were happy. Lebanon became one of the most stable and progressive countries in the Middle East. But the "Father of Belly" had one weakness that is fatal to both girls and politicians...
...account of the outlay they [the men] make from their substance for them [the women]." Turkey, which has had woman suffrage since 1934, Albania, Pakistan and Indonesia are exceptions among Moslem states. Last week at a noon prayer meeting in Cairo's Haddara Mosque, Moslem Leader Sheikh Mohamed Hamed Elfiqi described Egypt's votes-for-women movement as a conspiracy by Christians, Jews and Communists to destroy Islam...