Word: khalid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Northrop, after some haggling, paid $500,000 to a company believed to be controlled by Saudi Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, a registered commercial agent for several companies, for advancing Northrop sales...
Privately, Palestinian leaders fear that they are losing support from heretofore steadfast allies. Saudi Arabia's new King Khalid has in effect acknowledged Israel's right to exist by saying: "Israel can live within her 1967 borders." Russia's Gromyko has gone a step further by suggesting Soviet guarantees for Israel in return for its withdrawal from occupied territories. Said Zuheir Mohsen, leader of the Syria-based Saiqa group within the P.L.O.: "The parties that really need guarantees are the Palestinians and the Arabs. Gromyko made the mistake of picturing the pyramid standing on its head...
...clearly intersected and overlaid by a whole mosaic of economic and technological considerations. It still matters to the U.S., for all the sound traditional reasons, whether the Soviet Union acquires Atlantic Ocean naval facilities from Portugal. But it might matter to us just as much how the new King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and his half-brother Prince Fahd feel about the U.S. The lines of north-south traffic and controversy between the major raw-materials producers and consumers are a kind of Crosshatch over the familiar national lines of conflict and alliance within the northern latitudes...
...half brothers, who wanted to limit the power and influence of the omnipresent Sudeiris; for example, Prince Sultan is Minister of Defense, Prince Ahmed is deputy governor of Mecca, while Prince Salman is governor of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital. Fahd probably had the strength to displace Khalid as heir apparent, but to avoid a devastating family fight he agreed to the compromise under which Khalid would become King and he would be named Crown Prince...
...Khalid, variously known to his countrymen as "the quiet prince" and "the man of the desert," is a most reluctant monarch. Like Faisal, he had a circumscribed education, acquired in mosque schools and with Islamic tutors. From childhood he was close to Faisal, and although he served under his elder brother in various government posts from 1934 on, he never developed much taste for public affairs. His passions are falconry (he has one of the best collections of falcons in the world) and the desert life. In earlier years he liked nothing better than to visit tribes in the desert...