Word: kingdom
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...knows little about the extremist movements in the closed Saudi kingdom, but it is certain that they have been gaining strength in the years since the Gulf War. The most religious Saudis resented the presence of 541,000 American troops on and near their holy soil. Saudis also asked themselves why they had spent billions on planes and tanks if they had to ask the U.S. to defend them anyway. Many opponents of the regime appear to be drawn from the thousands of devout volunteers who received training and fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Others are conservatives who favor...
Western policymakers are worried that the kingdom's current economic slump is providing new recruits to the ranks of the opposition. Lower oil prices, huge government debts and the staggering $60 billion cost of the war have combined to cut Saudi Arabia's per capita income in half. The soaring population is generating a wave of young, middle-class urbanites who are coming out of strictly religious universities to find there are no jobs for them. Unemployment among young people may be as high as 25%. Set these conditions against the high living and charges of corruption in the House...
...speeches to religious groups, Elizabeth Dole tells the story of Esther, the Old Testament heroine confronted with a harrowing choice. When Esther, the wife of the Persian King Xerxes, learns of a plot to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...
...Arabs." Leaders who can assess their choices only in terms of preconceived, fixed notions, who refuse to benefit from experience, who reject contrary signs of a better course, says historian Tuchman, are the ones doomed to folly. That, she notes, is what cost Rehoboam, son of King Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel and the 10 tribes forever...
Call it blasphemy, call it heresy, but Billy Graham's financially successful "religious" kingdom was built on political savvy and guile, nothing more. BERNARD F. TAYLOR Trenton, New Jersey...