Word: jeddah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the choice was made, preparations for the story began under conditions of secrecy. From Beirut, Bureau Chief Karsten Prager distilled 18 months of reporting on oil while Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn flew to Jeddah to sip Bedouin coffee in a rare audience with King Faisal. In New York, Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Sarah Button gleaned information on oil and the Middle East. Sequestered in an out-of-the-way office, Senior Editor Marshall Loeb then wrote the cover story, which was edited by Assistant Managing Editor Edward L. Jamieson. Associate Editor Spencer Davidson sketched Faisal...
...strange domain. In a territory as large as the U.S. east of the Mississippi, huge patches still remain generally unreachable and desolate. Most of the population of 5.7 million is clustered in towns (the largest: Jeddah, pop. 400,000) or oases. The oil boom is Likely to alter the desert kingdom totally, as the Bedouins give up their no madic existence for a better life...
...world's leading holder of foreign currency reserves, intends to spend huge amounts of money within five years to balance oil production with such industrial activities as petrochemical production, steelmaking, shipbuilding and fertilizer manufacture. Not surprisingly, the plans have whetted great interest abroad. Moslems who arrived at Jeddah in record numbers last month on their way to make the annual hadj or pilgrimage to Mecca had to share facilities with another brand of pilgrim. These had business suits and attache cases instead of shaved heads and white prayer garments, and they were seeking slices of the vast petrodollar expenditures...
Faisal's concern is fostered not only by tribal tradition but also by a deep religious faith. The King prays, as Islamic law commands, five times a day. When he is in Jeddah, he likes to take a prayer rug to the shore and meditate beside the sea. On Thursday evenings, when he visits a mosque for prayers, other worshipers are often invited home with him for a post-prayer repast. His personal life continues to be more ascetic than that of many of his subjects. The King dislikes opulence. Succeeding Saud, he declared his brother...
...Jeddah, Saudi Arabia