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...less winning but much less solemn than he was on his visit to the U.S. for medical treatment last year, Saudi Arabia's five-year-old Prince Mashhur ibn Saud balanced a toy pistol on his head, was photographed at a Cairo party...
Married. Prince Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz, 40, Minister of Education for Saudi Arabia, brother of King Saud and one of some 40 sons of the late Ibn Saud; and Safinaz Nour, 18; in Cairo. Prince Fahd gave his bride jewelry worth an estimated $275,000, a collection of Christian Dior dresses, a cash gift of $40,000, presented her family with six U.S. limousines...
...control of the Saudi armed forces, fired the King's two top advisers on defense and the budget. Behind the ancient veil of the remote Arabian capital, change had finally overtaken the proud throne raised to conquest and splendor by the "Lion of the Desert," the late King Ibn Saud...
Hawk-nosed, black-bearded Prince Feisal, second of old Ibn Saud's 40 sons, is at least as stalwart a Saudi dynast as his brother the King, and might well be the chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented...
Armed with France's written pledge to give independence to Syria and Lebanon, F.D.R. in 1945 assured Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud that he would back the Syrians and Lebanese by all means short of outright force. And during the Casablanca Conference Roosevelt insisted on dining with Morocco's Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, then subject to France, pointedly told the Sultan: "A sovereign government should retain considerable control over its own resources." Most Frenchmen date the Sultan's stubborn drive toward ultimate independence from that...