Word: saude
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...swirling passions that have swept the Middle East since Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal Company, Saud has become pivotal just by holding fast to reality. That reality confronts him every time he drives past the flaming gas flares outside Dhahran, where the U.S.-owned Arabian American Oil Co. wells tap fields that are estimated to contain three times as much oil as the whole U.S. Profits from these fields bring Saud a yearly income of $300 million, finance his government, build his palaces and swimming pools, buy him Cadillacs and Convairs. But Saud knows that without...
Other Arabs have known as much, and let unreasoning hatred of the "exploiters' sweep all reason before them. That Saud has not is a tribute to his own character and to the evolution of a businesslike arrangement as an alternative to colonialism's notorious evils. For the partnership between king and company has been based from the first on strict terms of U.S. noninterference in Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. The royalties Aramco pays provide 90% of the government's revenues. Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms...
...feudal desert King, in his three years on the throne, has shown himself a man who prefers gestures to words, and understandings to contracts. At this time of shifting allegiances in the Middle East, it was a significant gesture that Saudi Arabia's Saud chose to cross the Atlantic at the invitation of "my friend Eisenhower...
...Saud, the Old Lion, reared his son in the stern tradition of the desert. Saud's formal schooling consisted of the Koran, and ended at 13. But he learned the slashing swordsmanship of the Arab horseman; and as late as 1929, young Prince Saud was dealing with a domestic crisis by the simpler method of chopping off the heads of captured tribesmen. Once he saved his father's life by leaping between him and an assassin, taking the descending knife in his shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there...
...were stories of a $15 tip given a waiter for a box of matches, of girls getting diamond rings just by admiring them, of a drunken Saudi prince staggering into an "exclusive Egyptian club shouting: "Pigs, stand up in the presence of a prince of the royal house of Saud...