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Forgive yourself if you didn't know that Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud spent six days in Washington last week. Apart from Beltway commuters who encountered his 50-car motorcade and a handful of Foggy Bottom specialists, few noticed that Saudi Arabia's virtual ruler had come and gone. The low-profile trip generated scarcely a headline, the way the cautious Saudis prefer it. But this was no ordinary visit. It was the third leg of a monthlong coming-out tour of major world capitals to deliver an important if understated message: after three years of uncertainty...
Abdullah is best known at home as a prince of the desert, who has a good handshake, speaks in velvety tones and can be aloof one minute and chuckling the next. Closely resembling the famed founder of modern Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz (generally known as Ibn Saud), he is fond of camel racing and is tolerant toward human frailties. "He will forgive anything but lying," says an intimate. He has a reputation for eschewing the country's endemic corruption; almost alone in the royal household, he forbids his sons to use their connections to profit in business. A devout...
...plenty of filler. One whole chapter, called Crazy Quilt, reminds us that we live in a melting pot (because you never know whom you will end up marrying) and features statistics on how many Hmong are living in Wisconsin as well as a cultural-IQ quiz that begins, "Abdul, a young man from Egypt, fell in love with Italian-American Gina...
...real problem--race relations--has reared its swelling head twice already this month in New York City. First, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani tried to prevent, or at least minimize, a Million Youth March in Harlem organized by Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a former aide to Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan and a proven hate-monger...
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