Word: fahd
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They are, strangely, the same person: Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian (of the holy places of Mecca and Medina), a form of address he prefers to Your Majesty. And the difference between the profligate prince and the cautious King reflects something more than the aging of the young hell raiser into a 69-year-old monarch whose 275-lb. bulk has so weakened his knees that he has trouble walking. Some 37 years ago, Fahd went through a conversion that, though forced on him, has had a lasting effect...
SAUDI ARABIA AND THE GULF STATES. No longer can the Saudis exist in semifeudal isolation; they must open themselves externally and internally. Inviting U.S. military forces to defend them was only the first step. King Fahd took another last week by urging Saudi women as well as young men to assist in the national defense effort. This week authorities will begin registering women volunteers for work in hospitals and medical services. That may gradually open the way for greater female participation in the kingdom's public life. Saudi women remain severely restricted; they are forbidden by law to drive...
...Saudi draft, the memo named King Fahd overall commander, with Schwarzkopf and the Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, as his deputies. Schwarzkopf objected -- as did George Bush -- and it was rewritten to establish separate, parallel commands: U.S. troops in one, Saudi and allied Arab forces in the other...
...Egypt, Syria and Morocco have joined the gulf countries in sending troops to Saudi Arabia. If King Fahd asks us for more troops, I am prepared to send them immediately...
...Arab gulf leaders, Fahd is now most vulnerable to charges he is a Western puppet. Shi'ite Muslims have been disputing Saudi custodianship of the holy sites of Mecca and Medina as illegitimate. The presence of foreign forces risks sowing the seeds of long-term agitation to unseat the house of Saud, though the presence of a pan-Arab force will take much of the onus off Fahd...