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...Northrop passed to Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi Arabian entrepreneur, $450,000 designated for two Saudi Arabian generals, Hashim Hashim and Asad Zuhair, who served at different times as chief of the nation's air force. Khashoggi denies the generals were bribed to buy Northrop planes. Nonetheless, Northrop did not defend the payment. Millar apologized last week to the Saudi government "for any embarrassment caused by this matter...
...black robes required for entry into Moslem holy places. Elsewhere, however, there was less tourism and more talk of politics. How would Kennedy respond to a presidential draft at the Democratic Convention? asked one Iranian student. The Senator paused, reached into a pocket for his new gift from Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Fahd, and replied, "I'd get out my worry beads...
Raisuli, Sherif of the Berbers ("The blood of the prophets flows in me") kidnaps a beautiful American woman, Eden Pedecaris ("He is a brigand and a lout") and sweeps her off to his castle in the desert. President Theodore Roosevelt is outraged ("Arabian thief! I want respect!"), and the U.S. Government dispatches an ultimatum to the powers in Morocco: "Mrs. Pedecaris alive, or Raisuli dead." There follow fights, betrayals, skirmishes, duels, U.S. Marine action and a couple of full-fledged battles. Nothing much like it ever happened in history, but it makes for a lovely adventure...
...same time, he kept the Koran as the law of the land. Harsh penalties continued to be handed out to those who violated its proscriptions against adultery and the drinking of alcohol. Even today, public executions of murderers are occasionally carried out in the main public squares of Saudi Arabian cities...
...talks, Pravda 's critique of Kissinger seemed downright restrained in the face of such a clear bonanza for the Russians. At week's end, however, the Soviet press agency Tass cited charges published in some Arab newspapers that the CIA was involved in the assassination of Saudi Arabian King Faisal. Since quoting from the foreign press is a common Soviet way of expressing official views, the repetition of this patently absurd accusation was a measure of how far the Kremlin is prepared to go to exploit Middle Eastern paranoia for its own advantage...