Word: faisal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor," he wrote in his diary. "Mr. Schirmer is rich beyond dreams. He lives in a palace bigger than the Czar's!" There was also old Miss Leo, who lived in a 17-room apartment with her favorite carriage horse, stuffed and mounted, and Princess Mona Faisal, who, when asked her occupation, wrote "Saudi Arabia...
Prince Saud al Faisal, 36, the Princeton-educated Foreign Minister, described his country's policy by saying, "It is the unwavering position of the kingdom that all the problems in our area should be solved by Arabs. We do not believe in individual solutions ... Our permanent and basic aim is to foster Islamic and Arabic interests...
...Arabian Ambassador to the U.N. and dean of that body's delegates; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Lebanese Christian by birth, Baroody joined the Saudi delegation to the U.N. at its first meeting in San Francisco in 1945. A loquacious speaker who enjoyed the complete confidence of King Faisal, he could turn bombastic, even pushy (literally), when defending his positions on Zionism and other matters, moving one of his colleagues, Ambassador George Bush, to describe the crusty diplomat as "an unguided missile...
...unwelcome to the Saudis, but thinks that they might grudgingly take it to heart. Indeed, Akins cites a fascinating historical footnote to buttress his point: "There are many Saudis who believe, and mind you, this is not true, that it was the pressure that President Kennedy put on King Faisal that resulted in the move toward liberalization of society in Saudi Arabia...
...years before the oil crisis, for example, Alan Greenspan, a leading consultant and former chief presidential economic adviser, was warning us about it, joking that King Faisal's picture would soon be on all the oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike. That instinct proved to be all too prescient." The board's latest predictions are summarized in this week's Economy & Business section. One forecast is not included, though the board is unanimous about it: Economics Editor Loeb is in no danger of an energy shortage...