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SAUDI ARABIA. As the Spirit of 76 flew over the arid wastes of the Arabian Desert, red-bereted troops riding in red Jeeps and red Chevrolets escorted a Rolls-Royce limousine to the airport in Jidda, the sun-baked seaport on the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia's royal guard -Bedouin tribesmen wearing black bandoleers and armed with single-shot rifles and curved knives in gold sheaths -stood smartly at attention. A team of sweepers began brushing the red carpet for the last time When the blue and silver U.S. jet came to a halt and President Nixon emerged, King...
...like Kissinger is a German-born naturalized American. Eilts, who studied at Ursinus College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is one of the State Department's ranking Arabists, with a permanent Foreign Service classification of minister. He speaks fluent Arabic, was posted to Teheran, Jidda, Aden, Baghdad, London and Tripoli before serving for five years as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. After leaving that post in 1970, Eilts joined the faculty of the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where he wrote eruditely on such obscure facets of U.S. Middle East policy as President James...
...Skills are in short supply, and many Saudis generally consider manual labor beneath their dignity. Much of the work is done by 300,000 foreign laborers: Yemenites in the construction trades and Jordanians and Palestinians in the offices. There are some modern oases: Riyadh, the centrally located capital, and Jidda, the commercial center on the Red Sea, have expansive boulevards and plenty of low-rise apartment houses, shops and government buildings. But there are no movies and no night life...
Last month Saud's jobless sons convinced their father that he would lose his throne unless he acted. In keeping with their talents, the princes' plot was simple. A tour of western Saudi Arabia was scheduled for the King, including the key cities of Taif, Mecca and Jidda. When Saud reached Jidda, he was to issue a royal decree dismissing Prince Feisal and his reformist Cabinet. Then the royal family would once more be in charge...
...construction teams to begin a 600-mile road across the desert and mountains from Mecca to Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh. Since setting up his company in 1938 (he learned construction techniques as an Aramco laborer), Ben Laden, 49, has completed $500 million in projects, including jetports in Jidda and Medina, a handful of palaces, and miles of superhighways. His greatest thrill was building a new mosque over Mohammed's tomb at Medina. Says Ben Laden: "To me there are only two things in life-work and Islam." ∙Simca, France's third largest automaker (after Renault...