Word: feisal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your story [Nov. 19] about King Feisal and the energy crisis, you gave a somewhat benevolent description of Feisal; but it seems his powers are not limited only to Saudi Arabia, but rather extend to every country in the world...
Underlining domestic warnings, Saudi Arabia's King Feisal was bluntly hinting as long ago as last April that unless the U.S. altered its Middle East policies, Saudi Arabia would begin to close the oil spigot. The hints were ignored, and Feisal sent his oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, to Washington to give the word directly to then Secretary of State William Rogers. When Washington yawned, Feisal himself gave the alarm in interviews with American reporters...
...nations who assembled for the sixth pan-Arab summit since 1964 were Marxist revolutionaries and Moslem kings, sheiks in flowing robes and guerrillas in commando uniform. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat showed up in a neatly tailored suit of banker's blue; Saudi Arabia's King Feisal wore a richly brown bisht with gold trim. While most of the delegates flew into Algiers' Dar el Beida airport, where they were greeted with 21-gun salutes and an honor guard with turbans and flashing swords, Morocco's King Hassan II arrived aboard the French cruise ship Roussillon, which...
POLITICAL. The U.S. could withdraw its military mission from Saudi Arabia, possibly troubling King Feisal, who has running difficulties with the Iraqis and South Yemenis, but the French would be happy to send a military mission as a replacement. The U.S. could also refuse to sell Saudi Arabia some 30 Phantom jets it has been dickering for. That would only confirm an apparent Saudi decision to buy French-made Mirages instead...
...main reason why Dutch efforts at diplomatic backtracking with the Arabs so far have produced no results. First, the Dutch Ambassador to Iran was sent to Arab capitals to ask for "understanding." When that failed, a special emissary was dispatched with a personal message from Queen Juliana to King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, recalling the special relationship between her mother Queen Wilhelmina and King Saud. His answer has not been made public but in formed sources say the Dutch got nowhere...