Word: khalid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soothe offended feelings, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington sent a personal cable to Saudi King Khalid expressing his own "profound regret" over the program. To some members of Parliament, that smacked of unwarranted groveling. Complained Labor M.P. David Winnick: "It is undignified to see a British Foreign Secretary virtually apologizing to a feudal state about what has been shown on TV in this country...
...most influential princes of the royal family appear to have closed ranks, as they have done in previous crises. Ailing King Khalid, 67, has embarked on a series of pilgrimages throughout the country to solidify support for the royal family. Crown Prince Fahd, Deputy Prime Minister and heir presumptive to the throne, continues to handle day-to-day chores; most-although not all-observers in Riyadh believe his authority has increased as he seeks to carry out reforms to quell potential unrest. The next princes in line, National Guard Commander Abdullah and Defense Minister Sultan, seem to have buried their...
...possessor of the world's largest oil reserves, the vulnerability of the royal family was made starkly apparent when a band of 200 to 300 well-armed raiders in November seized the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest of all Islamic shrines, which is under the protection of King Khalid. The raiders appeared to have mixed religious and political motives: they seemingly were armed and trained in Marxist South Yemen, but were fundamentalists opposed to all modernism, led by a zealot who had proclaimed the revolution in Iran to be a "new dawn" for Islam. It took the Saudi army...