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...listened respectfully to Yamani's proposals though we did not accept them," said one oil minister. When the other OPEC chieftains failed to buy his reasoning, Yamani dramatically rose from the conference table and strode out of the hall. He flew to Riyadh for talks with King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz. The other oil ministers pretended to be unimpressed by Yamani's theatrics. Said Iraq's oil minister, Karim: "It is a big game that he always plays." When word came that Yamani was returning to the conference. Qatar's minister of finance and petroleum, Abdul...
...John's Bargain Stores that attracted a couple of oil-rich Arab shoppers last week. In Seattle, spokesmen for the Boeing Company confirmed having discussions with agents of King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz, 63, of Saudi Arabia. His Majesty, it seems, is in the market for a monster five-story-high 7475P jet that would probably cost upward of $50 million and include a stratospheric throne plus a royal hospital room wired for communication via satellite. Back in Chicago, meanwhile, emissaries of Qabus bin Said, 35, Sultan of Oman, were content merely to rent space...
...Regard not those killed for the sake of Allah as dead, for they are alive beside him, resplendent in his favor and rejoicing . . ." With those words in homage to the late King Faisal, Radio Riyadh thus ended its announcement that Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, the 26-year-old member of the Saudi Arabian royal family who murdered his uncle, King Faisal, last March 25 (TIME, April 7), had himself been put to death...
Died. Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, 26, nephew and assassin of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal; in a public beheading in Riyadh's Court of Justice Square (see THE WORLD...
History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...