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...Washington Post that Letterman planned to sue NBC to break his contract, making him available for offers from CBS and ABC. Once upon a time, the ringmaster of Stupid Pet Tricks was indeed Carson's heir apparent, Bonnie Prince Dave. But now Leno will assume command over the United Kingdom of Late Night. Letterman gets to keep Wales...
Three months after the gulf war ended, Saudi Arabia seems to have returned to its placid ways. But the calm atmosphere is a mirage. Operation Desert Storm may be over, but it has unleashed powerful political and social crosswinds in the kingdom. Buffeted by the currents, King Fahd is struggling to preserve a precarious balance between secular moderates and religious conservatives while opening up the family-run government to his subjects. At stake is not only the direction of Saudi society, but also the survival of a royal dynasty that has ruled the country since its founding 60 years...
...family consensus, should not shy away from a modest extension of the political franchise, particularly if it represents no dilution of his own power. He might even find it easier to control the religious extremists who pose such a threat, in the moderates' view, to the stability of the kingdom. Despite their endorsement of a Consultative Council, says a Western diplomat, "the religious conservatives correctly perceive that one of its aims is to provide a forum for people to speak out against their excesses...
Moderates fret that Fahd will once again back down rather than confront the conservatives. "He will never fight them," says a Saudi intellectual. But failure to institute reforms now will only serve to encourage the extremists. Fahd's father, King Abdul Aziz, founder of the kingdom, did not hesitate to sever his alliance with the puritanical Wahhabi warriors when they defied his rule. As the struggle over Saudi Arabia's future intensifies, Fahd could do worse than recall his father's choice when challenged by his kingdom's zealots...
SAUDI ARABIA Grateful to the U.S. and the other allies for saving them from Saddam, the Saudis suggested in the midst of the crisis that they would adopt a new openness toward Israel. But now that the kingdom is safe again, the old hostility is back. It took a diplomatic bludgeoning by the U.S. to get the Saudis and the other gulf states to agree earlier this month to serve collectively as an observer to a Middle East conference and to participate in talks with Israel on regional issues like water distribution, economic development and arms control. Worried about...