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Austerity Behind. By Saud's decision, Saudi Arabia is leaving behind a two-year stretch of austerity that a man of his royal tastes found painful-even though the program was useful and was ably run by Saud's younger brother, Crown Prince Feisal, 56, the hawk-nosed heir to the throne. Taking over virtually all powers in 1958, Feisal proceeded to turn in surplus budgets and stabilize the faltering rial at five to the dollar. He clipped the King's and the princes' spending money until they howled. He also patched up Saud...
Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
...While Feisal stuck to his ledgers, King Saud practiced the gritty game of desert politics that he had learned on horseback at the side of his one-eyed warrior father Ibn Saud. First he moved grandly to the left of his brother Feisal, intrigued the kingdom's newspaper editors with talk of a transition from feudal to parliamentary rule (TIME, May 30). Then he flew to West Germany, drew out $50 million which he had providently tucked away in a bank there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over...
...King was annoyed, too, at Feisal's paying court to the United Arab Republic's Nasser; Saud resents Nasser's claim to be leader of all the Arabs, has always rather fancied the title for himself. Often the royal brothers quarreled, and twice Feisal offered his resignation. Each time Saud wept, Feisal wept, and the 38 other royal brothers beat their breasts and declared that a rift might destroy the house of Saud. But last week, when Saud saw that his royal allowance under his brother's new budget was hardly any more generous than last...
Baksheesh Back. The King offered a new Cabinet balanced between four princes and six commoners. The key post of Finance went to Saud's brother Prince Talal, whose powerful voice in the family councils had cinched Feisal's rise and Saud's demotion two years before. The new Minister of Petroleum, Mines and Education is Abdullah Tariki, the aggressively nationalistic University of Texas-trained geologist who in Arab councils argues that all the Arab countries should be getting a larger share of oil-company profits...