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Reza Shah Pahlavi; and the Gulf, 88;
SAF, see under Oman
and Britain, 88, 289, 464; and Soviet
Said ibn Sultan Al Bu Said, sultan of
Union, 462, 464; character and reign,
Oman, 108-9, 119, 146, 179
290, 299, 320
Said ibn Taimur Al Bu Said, sultan of
Riyad, 227, 243; lost to Rashidis, 228;
Oman, 112; character and
recovered, 228
government, 115, 117, 118-19, 142,
Roberts, Goronwy, minister of state al
*56, 157; grants oil concession, 112,
Foreign Office; visits Gulf, 47, 48, 114; and imamate rebellion, 114-15,
49-50 155; and Dhufar, 133-4; and Israel,
Rogers, William, and Tehran oil 216; and Saudis, 113; attempt on life,
negotiations, 345, 350 r35, I37> deposition and death,
Royal Air Force, 49, 93, 98; at Salalah, 141-2. See also Oman
135, 143, 160; at Bahrain, 182 saiyid, defined, 108, 120
Royal Dutch Shell; and IPC, 437; in SAL, see South Arabian League
Qatar, 190; in Libya, 335, 338, 340, Salih ibn Isa al-Harithi, 112, 115, 118
381; nationalized in Algeria, 334, and Salim Rubayyi Ali; and ANM, 18; and
in Iraq, 400 NLF, 27; president of PRSY/PDRY,
Royal Navy, 96, 98; in the Gulf, 182, 130; overthrown, 472
313 Salalah, 115, 119, 133, 160; under siege,
Rub al-Khali, 60, 65, 85, 105 137
Rumailah oilfield, 281, 360 Sandys, Duncan, colonial secretary, and
Russia; and Britain, 275, 458-61; and Aden,19-20
Persia, 311, 317, 459, 460-1; and sanjaq, defined, 169
Afghanistan, 459; and Ottoman Saqqaf, Omar, Saudi deputy foreign
empire, 459, 460; and the Gulf, 460. minister; and the Gulf, 80; and 1973
See also Soviet Union Arab-Israeli war, 397; and oil
Ruus al-Jibal, 104, 159 embargo, 406
Saqr ibn Muhammad Al Qasimi, ruler of
Saadun al-Hammadi, Iraqi oil minister; Ras al-Khaimah: ambitions, 199, 201,
and Tehran negotiations, 346, 353, 205; and the UAE, 90, 93-4, 95>
356, 369; and OPEC, 381; and 1973 204-5,212;and Iraq,288
oil embargo, 400 Saqr ibn Sultan Al Qasimi, ruler of
Sabah ibn Ahmad Al Sabah, Kuwait Sharjah, 96, 201
foreign minister: on the Gulf, 80 Saud ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, king of
Sabah ibn Salim Al Sabah, ruler of Saudi Arabia, 239; descent, 239;
Kuwait, 171; and terrorism, 174; and character and reign, 239, 240-1;
national assembly, 177; on oil death, 241
weapon, 389, 395 Saudi Arabia: history, 64, 224-38;
sabkhah, defined, 60, 105 population, 241, 247; society, 241-2,
Sabkhat Matti, 60, 65, 75 246, 249, 250-1, 268-9; economy,
sada, see saiyid 241, 251-2; education, 247-9, 250-1,
Sadat, Anwar, and Faisal ibn Abdul 435-6; medical services, 249-50;
Aziz, 389-90, 394-5 foreign communities, 242, 248,
Saddam Husain al-Takriti, 251-2, 268-9; disaffection, 270-3;
vice-president of Iraq, 282; president, arms procurement, 31, 263, 264-5,
287; and Muhammad Reza Shah, 266, 487; defence budgets, 265,
285 271-2, 487; National Guard, 243,
