Word: faisal
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Israeli officials first glimpsed this latest strategy last month when plainclothes agents of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, arrested Faisal Husseini, the pro-P.L.O. head of the Arab Studies Society. In his East Jerusalem office they allegedly found a four-page plan that calls for the declaration of an independent Palestinian state with Arafat as its President. The new state would then seek peace negotiations with Israel...
...give his son a modern education. Through a timely investment, he was able to send Adnan to Victoria College, a British-run school in Egypt that was the cradle of leadership for the elite of the Middle East. Khashoggi's classmates included two princes who would become Kings, Faisal II of Iraq and Hussein of Jordan. There Khashoggi learned the rudiments of dealmaking. He found out that a Libyan schoolmate's father wanted to buy sheets and towels; he knew that an Egyptian classmate's father manufactured them. He introduced buyer and seller, and it yielded his first commission, about...
When Fahd's half-brother King Faisal took the Saudi throne in 1964 and set the country on a course of close cooperation with the U.S., Khashoggi positioned himself to be the middleman between American arms manufacturers and the Saudi Defense Ministry. At Khashoggi's instigation, the Saudis commissioned the U.S. to study their defense needs and make recommendations as to what they should buy. As a result, Khashoggi had the inside track and locked up sales-agency rights with such U.S. firms as Lockheed, Raytheon and Northrop. He eventually won exclusive commissions on 80% of all U.S. military sales...
...Yamani's dismissal ended a remarkable career. The son of a religious judge in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, Yamani graduated from Cairo University and in 1956 received a degree from Harvard Law School. In 1958 he became a government legal adviser and protege of Crown Prince (later King) Faisal, who named the 32-year-old attorney oil minister in 1962. At that time OPEC, which had been founded only two years earlier, was an obscure group whose members had come together to form a united front against the major oil companies that then controlled world oil prices...
...held hands with her husband in White House receiving lines when she thought no one was looking, who escaped the claustrophobic atmosphere of the White House by occasionally sneaking out after dinner to stroll the streets of downtown Washington. Rather than complain about the frigid air conditioning in King Faisal's guesthouse on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Julie writes, her mother spent the night trying to keep warm by huddling in a marble bathtub filled with bedding...