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...Cabinet, promised free medical care and education, abolished slavery. He also planned new public morality committees to back up the religious police run by Moslem mullahs. "It is high time." he says, "to introduce some fundamental reforms. But who is more worthy than we, the sons of Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, to handle the affairs of our country...
...20th century king. He is a Neanderthal king." Though many would agree with this description of Saudi Arabia's crusty old monarch, there was some surprise at the source: Prince Talal Ibn Abdulaziz, half brother of Saud, former Minister of Finance in Saud's government...
...longtime Monnet assistant, compares the operation with the committees of correspondence in America's struggle for independence. Monnet says quietly: "I don't have an official position. I have influence." He likes to add a quotation from a somewhat remote source, Saudi Arabia's late King Ibn Saud, who once said, "In my youth I met God in the desert, and God gave me the secret of success: To me everything is opportunity, even an obstacle...
...Khali in 1938. But for four years Tom Barger tramped for oil and mapped Rub Al Khali's shifting sands in 130° heat, making lifelong friends of sheiks and shepherds, princes and kings. Mastering Arabic, he began to handle Aramco's negotiations with King Ibn Saud's government, was named an Aramco vice president in 1958, president in 1959. Last week in Dhahran, smiling, sinewy (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs.) Tom Barger, 52, was named Aramco's chief executive officer to replace retiring Chairman Norman Hardy. Says a colleague: "You just have...
...country of many tribes and little sense of nationalism, old Ibn Saud tried to unify his nation in the traditional Arab way: by "marrying" the daughter of a chieftain for a night. Thus the 1,000 princes are a cross section of tribes; and politics in Saudi Arabia, where no man has a vote, is largely palace politics...