From the S&S archives:
Libyans cheer Arabia's Saud on three-day visit

TRIPOLI, Libya — King Saud of Saudi Arabia, en route home from his conference with President Eisenhower, is paying a three-day state visit to King Idris I of Libya.

The monarch's arrival Friday, which marked the first time that any foreign chief of state has visited this country since it achieved its independence in 1951, set off a wave of festivity.

Saudi Arabian flags, bearing an inscription and the sword of Islam, hung from public buildings. The road from Idris airport, 20 miles outside Tripoli, was bridged by hundreds of triumphal arches welcoming the monarch.

Thousands of Libyan children lined the route into the city waving Libyan flags and chanting as Saud and Idris drove by.

The state visit to Libya is the fourth. that Saud has made since leaving Washington two weeks ago. The monarch arrived here from Tunisia, where be conferred with Premier Habib Bourguiba. Before that he had visited Morocco and Spain.

Saud's party, comprising 50 advisers and personal attendants, landed here in three Convairs. He was greeted by Idris and Libyan Prime Minister Mustapha ben Halim.

Both kings stood. at attention as the royal Libyan band played the Saudi national anthem, and Saud then greeted members of the diplomatic corps, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Tappin.

Saud attended a state banquet Friday night tendered him by the Libyan king, and Saturday he was the guest of honor at an Arab feast And tribal horse race.

The monarch was scheduled to depart for Saudi Arabia Sunday following a military parade in his honor.