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...face of Soviet unwillingness to cooperate, the Arab sponsors retreated, and the session instead turned into another broad diplomatic offensive against Israel, the U.S. and Camp David. Farouk Qaddoumi, the Palestine Liberation Organization's spokesman, declared that the Camp David accords "constitute a conspiracy against justice and peace." Islamic Conference Secretary-General Habib Chatti of Tunisia raised the possibility of suspending Israel's U.N. membership "if it continued to ignore the decisions of the organization and refused to evacuate the occupied Arab territories." For his part, Israeli Ambassador Yehuda Blum denounced the emergency session as a "grotesque farce...
...worked hard, putting in 15 hours a day at his desk in Niavaran Palace in Tehran. He seemingly found little happiness in either his public or his private life. He seldom smiled, and his voice lacked warmth or expression. His first marriage, to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, King Farouk's sister, ended in a 1948 divorce when the Shah concluded that she could not give him a male heir (a daughter, Princess Shahnaz, is now 39). Three years later, the Shah married Soraya Esfandiari, a beautiful Iranian commoner. He divorced her in 1958, again because the union failed...
With a fortune estimated at $100 million, Farouk Nasser, 50, can afford to live anywhere he wants in the world; in fact he has homes in London and San Francisco as well as a sumptuous permanent hotel suite in Beirut. One of the most successful of Palestinian businessmen, he heads the Modern Electronics Establishment, with headquarters in Saudi Arabia. Nasser, whose family founded Bir Zeit University, still dreams of returning to his birthplace. "I'll tell you why I want to go back to Palestine," he says. "I belong to this land. I was born there. I know...
...they have the best educations that money will buy, their governments will not allow them to participate in decision-making. Much of the recent surge in gold prices stems from insecure Persian Gulf monarchs on buying sprees, who, realizing their reigns will end soon, would rather retire in King Farouk-like opulence...
...18th century. The throne on which Mohammed Reza Pahlavi sat is a copy made during the reign of Path Ali Shah (1798-1834) and named after one of his favorites, Tavous Khanoum, or Lady Peacock. * In 1939 the Shah married Princess Fawzia, a sister of Egypt's King Farouk, who had been chosen by his father before he ever saw her. He divorced her in 1948 and married Soraya Esfandiari, whom he divorced in 1958 after she failed to bear him an heir. The next year he married Farah Diba. They have four children: Crown Prince Reza, Prince...