Word: bedouin
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Grim Example. Saud's chances of ever regaining power in Saudi Arabia are almost nil. The country has made far more social and economic gains under the austere Feisal than it ever did under Saud. Even those Bedouin chieftains whose loyalty Saud won in the old days with bags of gold are not clamoring to have him back. The grim example of the 17 Yemeni terrorists whom Feisal recently had beheaded in Riyadh should also discourage dissident tribesmen from siding with Saud...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "After the Miracle" examines the 18-year-old nation of Israel from university to kibbutz, and from Bedouin tent to hostile border-mostly through the eyes of its young people...
...Bedouin Folklore. To check the ancient folklore, Krown examined local rainfall records. They had only been kept since 1924, but since then, at least, Bedouins had been right. Moderate rainfall in October was almost always followed by an exceptionally dry winter. Dry Octobers generally preceded three-month periods of above-normal rainfall. "I felt that if we could understand the weather circulation in October," he says, "it could possibly tell us what was going to happen...
Homosexuality is something of a tradition in backward Yemen, where Bedouin herdsmen roam the rocky hills for months on end with only each other and their animals for company. Male brothels flourish in San'a, the capital, and the late Imam Ahmad, who ruled the country for 14 years before his death in 1962, established an international reputation for overzealous camaraderie...
...given way to a pair of Chrysler New Yorkers, and with a deftly democratic touch, Feisal always sits up front next to the driver. To get just as close to the people, Feisal holds a daily majlis (assembly) and invites everyone-from the richest merchant to the scruffiest Bedouin-to come and get his gripes off his chest. "We believe," says Feisal, "that we represent democracy in its highest form, though its structure may be alien to Western ways...