Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change. "King Faisal," he said, "laid the foundations for a good policy to develop Saudi Arabia and its relations with other countries. I will complete his mission and continue with his policies." Khalid, a quiet man who has never cared much about public affairs, will rely heavily on Crown Prince Fahd; though Khalid took the title of Premier, he named Fahd First Deputy Premier and also allowed him to retain his previous powerful post of Minister of Interior...
...reason for the enduring success of the House of Saud is that in moments of crisis its members stand together. Last week the princes demonstrated family solidarity when, in accordance with a prearranged plan, they named Crown Prince Khalid, 62, successor to the assassinated King Faisal and his half brother Fahd, 53, the new Crown Prince and heir apparent...
...issue was over which half brother of King Faisal should succeed him: the ailing, ineffectual Khalid, who a decade earlier had been named Crown Prince following Faisal's accession to the throne, or the able, ambitious Prince Fahd, Saudi Arabia's Second Deputy Premier (King Faisal held the title of Premier, Khalid was First Deputy Premier) and Minister of the Interior. Fahd was widely known as the second most powerful man in the country; he had the additional advantage of being the senior member of the "Sudeiri seven"; among 31 surviving sons of Ibn Saud, this...
...governor of Mecca, while Prince Salman is governor of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Fahd probably had the strength to displace Khalid as heir apparent, but to avoid a devastating family fight he agreed to the compromise under which Khalid would become King and he would be named Crown Prince...
...Saud died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud; Faisal was named Crown Prince. An amiable sensualist with little talent for government, King Saud spent so profligately that by 1964 his country was deep in debt. A convocation of elder princes of the family finally packed Saud off into exile and named Faisal King. It was perhaps the most momentous decision that the family ever made...