Word: fahd
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...tanks. In addition, Iraq stepped up the stridency of its rhetoric. Though Baghdad officials insisted Iraq would not strike first, the Revolutionary Command Council predicted "the mother of all battles" and denounced the "dwarfs led by Bush and his two servants ((King)) Fahd and Hosni ((Mubarak))." Saddam conceded that the U.S. is "the No. 1 superpower" but added that, nonetheless, "we are confident that we can hurt America" in a war with Iraq...
...decisively into the Western camp, the gulf crisis has forced the Saudis to rethink relations with their fellow Arabs. According to Western diplomats, Riyadh has decided to financially squeeze the P.L.O., once a big recipient of Saudi largesse, as punishment for its support of Saddam. Yasser Arafat, whom King Fahd dislikes anyway, has asked three times to visit the kingdom but has been turned away. Angered by King Hussein's vacillations on the gulf crisis, King Fahd has refused calls from the Jordanian monarch, who also ranks high on the Saudi dole list. By refusing to condemn Saddam, the Yemenites...
Whatever the realignments in foreign policy, Fahd and his family will find them easier to swallow than the changes in the country's internal order that some Saudis are just beginning to push for. As Prince Salman's cool reaction to the businessmen in Riyadh suggests, the royals show no willingness to relinquish their monopoly on power. Over time, however, they may see little choice. "It is our tradition to accept authority," says a Saudi professional in Dhahran, adding significantly, "unless the legitimacy of authority is lost." Now that the once closed kingdom has been shocked into opening its doors...
...program in the Shi'ite region, which has always produced the lion's share of modern Saudi Arabia's oil wealth and received little in return. The situation further improved in 1985 when the brutal administration in the province of the bin Jaluwi family was replaced by Mohammed bin Fahd, a former businessman and a . son of the King. Still, Ashura continues to be a time when grievances surface: demonstrations were put down violently again in late 1985. Just last year scores of Shi'ites mourning the death of Khomeini were arrested and interrogated, some remaining in jail for nine...
...Iraqis molest Western embassies in Kuwait, and the global coalition against Iraq stiffens. -- If sanctions fail, can the U.S. cripple Saddam for good with a quick strike? -- Lifting the veil on Saudi Arabia, America's secretive ally that is suddenly exposed to winds of change. -- King Fahd, the man who rules the House of Saud...