Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those riches, however, the life of King Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Fais al al Saud was poor in many of the things which the world's more ordinary people set store by. His health was bad. His favorite sons proved disap pointing and profligate. Like many exorbitantly rich men, he was gnawed at times by doubts as to the sincerity of his professed friends. He ruled Saudi Arabia for only eleven of his 67 years, then was forced by his own brother to surrender the throne. Born in exile in Kuwait, where his parents had taken refuge from...
Died. Saud ibn Abdul Aziz al Faisal al Saud, 67, deposed monarch of Saudi Arabia (see THE WORLD...
...place mainly to frighten the regime's internal enemies. That assumption was reinforced by reports that Baghdad was secretly trying as "spies" 35 more, including 13 Jews, and holding hundreds of others in jail. They include former Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz and ex-Defense Minister Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili. Also among them was an American engineer, Paul Bail, who was on loan from Esso to the Iraq Petroleum Co. Friends said that Iraqi police apparently suspected that an elaborate hi-fi set in his home was actually a radio transmitter. Baghdad later promised to be "tolerant" and said...
...King Feisal, who deposed him in 1964, that he's not welcome in his homeland. In Greece, where he now hitches his camel, the 67-year-old monarch could not even summon a smile when his daughter, Princess Apta, 23, presented him with a new grandson named Abdul Aziz. There was good reason for Saud's glumness: he already has supported countless ex-wives, 45 sons, 46 daughters and perhaps 100 grandchildren...
...pragmatic. Where Shukairy had depended on other Arab states to "drive the Israelis into the sea," the new men call for a purely "Palestine initiative"-the essence of which is to make an acceptable peace with Israel. "The Israelis have all along offered the Arab states peace," says Aziz Shihadeh, 50, a lawyer in the occupied town of Ramallah. "They have been offering it to the wrong people. We, the Palestinians, are the only ones who can negotiate...