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...King Faisal held the title of Premier, Khalid was First Deputy Premier) and Minister of the Interior. Fahd was widely known as the second most powerful man in the country; he had the additional advantage of being the senior member of the "Sudeiri seven"; among 31 surviving sons of Ibn Saud, this sep tet has the same mother, Hossa, a member of the powerful Sudeiri family from the Najd region of central Arabia...
...Middle East, said Henry Kissinger recently, is "an area of remarkable personalities, the last bastion where great men can come out of the desert and do unbelievable things." One of the men that the Secretary surely had in mind was Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, with whom he had ceremoniously sipped mint tea in Riyadh only six days before the King was assassinated last week. When he died at the age of 69, Faisal was not only among the richest men in the world, thanks to Saudi Arabia's incredible oil wealth...
Faisal had a reverence for desert ways, and strove mightily to keep alien influences from corrupting his kingdom. He had seen it founded, after all, out of a backward region of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. In 1932 his crusty father, Ibn Saud, after a series of skirmishes that ended in his defeat of Sherif Hussein of Mecca (great-grandfather of Jordan's present King Hussein), established the kingdom. Ibn Saud had 36 sons but he took an early liking to Faisal, partly because the youth displayed a notable fighting spirit and an ability to carry out his father's orders...
...Ibn Saud died and was succeeded by his eldest son, Saud; Faisal was named Crown Prince. An amiable sensualist with little talent for government, King Saud spent so profligately that by 1964 his country was deep in debt. A convocation of elder princes of the family finally packed Saud off into exile and named Faisal King. It was perhaps the most momentous decision that the family ever made...
Died. Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, 69, austere absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia; of gunshot wounds inflicted by his nephew, Prince Faisal ibn Musaed; during a royal audience in the Saudi capital of Riyadh (see THE U.S. & THE WORLD...