Word: fahd
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Perhaps more fateful, an actuarial deadline looms. As the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin has shown, personalities count in making peace. Today, many Middle East leaders are old or ailing. Arafat, 69, reportedly has Parkinson's disease; Jordan's King Hussein is ill with cancer; Saudi Arabia's King Fahd is enfeebled; and Syria's Hafez Assad, 68, has heart trouble. Princes are set to take over Saudi Arabia and Jordan, but Syria and the Palestinians have no successors. Whoever they are, the concern is that the next generation may not be nimble or strong enough to keep the peace...
...this was no ordinary visit. It was the third leg of a monthlong coming-out tour of major world capitals to deliver an important if understated message: after three years of uncertainty in the kingdom, marked by terrorist bombings, plummeting oil prices and the continuing illness of King Fahd, 75, Abdullah is taking charge...
...After Fahd's 1995 stroke, the King designated Abdullah as regent, then quickly took back his authority. But while the ailing Fahd officially remains monarch and continues to chair Cabinet meetings when his spirits are up, Abdullah is now running the country's day-to-day affairs, and his succession is unchallenged...
...rich and famous with wall-to-wall flamboyance and fidgety fuss; of cancer; in Oxfordshire, England. Hicks, a sworn enemy of chintz, eschewed the staid flowery prints in favor of eye-popping solids, which he boldly mingled with modern paintings and patterned carpets. Among his chichi clientele: King Fahd and royals Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who became his peers after he married Lady Pamela Mountbatten...
...THREAT With King Fahd of Saudi Arabia laid low by a stroke, day-to-day policy decisions of the world's biggest oil producer are being made by Crown Prince Abdullah--the first future King of Saudi Arabia in recent times who doesn't speak English. "He's more of a nationalist and is seeking better relations with Iran," notes Zonis. Both Iran and Saudi Arabia are trying to figure out how to increase oil revenues. Experts believe they might strike a deal: Iran would cease all terrorist activity in Saudi Arabia; in exchange, the Saudis would work to raise...