Gamal Abdel Nasser declared open war on King Saud last weekthe man whom he has often wooed in the past, whose oil moneys have helped fuel Nasser's subversions, whose army only two years ago was nominally put under a joint command headed by an Egyptian.
The declaration was neither a signed document nor a diplomatic ultimatum. But it was clear enough. It came when Nasser stepped onto his Damascus balcony, looked grandly out on the sea of cheering Arabs who have surrounded the guesthouse every day all day since he arrived two weeks...
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