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Well past midnight a strapping Negro named Salim al Abdullah, one of Prince Nawaf's two bodyguards, returned to the hotel. He was carrying a small black bag and had an un-Moslem smell of alcohol about him. A hotel porter took the black bag, accompanied Abdullah to his room, where he put his nightclothes into the bag; then both headed for the prince's suite, where Abdullah was to take up his guard duties. Unhappily they went to the wrong floor. Abdullah's key would not open the door, so the porter got a passkey from...
...Abdullah tiptoed through the drawing room to make sure that his small charge was safely asleep. As he opened the bedroom door, a light flashed on and Abdullah found himself face to face not with the little prince but with a woman. Shouting, "Fein sidi! Fein sidi!" (Where is my master?), Abdullah leaped on the Begum, tried to choke the truth from...
Struggling free, the Begum screamed for help, began throwing anything handy at the frenzied bodyguard. In turn, Abdullah hurled a heavy glass ashtray at the Begum, missed, and then was at her again, still shrieking: "Fein sidi!" The uproar brought the Begum's Swiss secretary from next door, and the hotel porter and the chef d'étage came stumbling into the bedroom, pulled Abdullah off the nearly strangled Begum, hustled him outside. A doctor was summoned, and the police...
They are more concerned by the deal being discussed by Indiana Standard with Saudi Arabia. At the bargaining table sits swart, smiling Sheik Abdullah Tariki, 39, the Arab oil expert whom Americans most respect and fear. Head of the Saudi office of Petroleum and Mineral Affairs, Tariki is an oil engineer with a master's degree from the University of Texas, is divorced from his American wife. His dedicated Arab nationalism is reportedly deepened by painful memories of having been confused with Mexicans in Texas. In the land of sheiks with Cadillacs and concubines, he is regarded as personally...
...Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from...