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...ascetic Crown Prince (later King) Faisal summoned his younger half-brother Fahd and told him he was disgracing himself and the kingdom. It was time, said Faisal, for Fahd to come home and devote himself to serious matters of state. Implicit in the rebuke was a warning that Fahd was endangering his chances of succeeding to the crown. As one of seven sons borne by the favorite wife of the legendary Abdul Aziz (generally known as Ibn Saud), who created Saudi Arabia, Fahd was among those in line someday to be King. But there was, and is, nothing automatic about...
...modern hospitals. Fahd managed affairs with Bedouin shrewdness. He insisted that as soon as a project was approved, money for it had to be set aside. The practice horrified financial advisers who thought the cash should be invested to earn interest, but when oil prices broke and the kingdom's oil income plunged to $20 billion annually or less, Fahd, then King, did not have to cancel any projects...
...United Nations and became so fascinated by the country that he wanted to stay. He sent all his sons to American colleges, and he stays tuned to CNN on TV sets scattered through his palaces. Nonetheless, the presence of American troops cannot help intensifying the pressures on the kingdom to come further out of its isolation and into the modern world. Whether that can be done while maintaining the system of semifeudal family rule that Fahd has so far adroitly preserved is probably the biggest question still confronting Fahd -- or his successor...
...candor of Salman's visitors was a manifestation of how the tremor from Kuwait has shaken the fixtures of Saudi society, one of the world's most conservative realms. For the first time since the visionary warrior-statesman Abdul Aziz, generally known as Ibn Saud, proclaimed his kingdom in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been confronted by the alarming threat of conquest. In coping with that challenge, the country and its 14.5 million inhabitants find themselves poised on the sword edge of change. The modernization and enrichment of Saudi life produced by the oil- price boom of the 1970s...
...temporary home to hundreds of American Jewish soldiers and scores of U.S. military chaplains. And a nation that used to allow no more than 20 reporters a year to visit has suddenly found itself swamped by 800 journalists in the past seven weeks, all eager to explore the kingdom's secretive ways...