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...Libya, Faisal's ambitions for political leadership in the Arab world were sharply challenged, most notably by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the secular prophet of a new kind of Arab nationalism. The two strong-minded leaders clashed directly only once before Nasser's death in 1970. After Yemen's Imam Badr was ousted in a Republican coup, Nasser sent in Egyptian forces to support the new regime. Faisal backed a counterrevolution by Yemeni Royalists. Eventually, Badr renounced his claim to the throne and the Republican regime prevailed ? but Nasser suffered heavy losses, and the cost...
...Iran, which in the past has given lip-service approval to the Arab cause. They also worry that all then" oil would henceforth have to come by tanker through the strait of Bab al-Mandab along the Red Sea-a route that could easily be blockaded by Somalia, Southern Yemen or the Moslem rebels in Eritrea...
...force, for example, now enjoys base facilities in Yemen and Somalia, which it has supplied heavily with military hardware. American base rights in Spain and Thailand have been a quid pro quo for weapons. Using arms sales to gain bases, however, sometimes makes the exporting country a hostage of the recipient. Ankara now threatens to expel the U.S. from some of its vital bases in Turkey because Congress stopped deliveries of military...
...decisions on spending and development are ultimately made by Faisal. Other kings of Arab nations have disappeared from Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and most recently Libya, after a military coup there mounted by Muammar Gaddafi; and the thrones of Jordan and Morocco are shaky. But Faisal, whose name in Arabic means sword, remains for now a strong and absolute monarch. His prolific family gives him a solid base. Ibn Saud sired 36 sons, and his son King Saud produced 54 girls and 52 boys. Faisal has had eight sons and six daughters by four wives, two of whom he divorced many...
...distributes Saudi oil, and last week agreement was reached for a 100% takeover by year's end. Western banks and a handful of investment banking houses have won contracts to direct petrodollars from oil-rich Arab nations to poor or heavily populated ones such as Egypt, Sudan and Yemen. But many of the poorer Arab nations will require years of "soft" (low-or no-interest) rehabilitation loans before they are prepared to absorb massive infusions of development capital...