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...sybarite who virtually abandoned his desert kingdom for a career of overseas carousing. He drank Scotch freely, ordered caviar by the pound, attended the raunchy shows in the nightclubs of Beirut so frequently that he knew all the leading belly dancers by name, engaged in myriad liaisons with women (he is said to have paid the wife of a Lebanese businessman $100,000 a year to make herself available) and, if old stories are to be believed, gambled away $1 million in the casinos of Monte Carlo during a single weekend...
...confessing that he could not balance his country's budget. He has for years conducted an exquisite balancing act among factions in his royal family, between the West and the Arab world, between the tug toward high-tech modernization and the impulse to preserve the semifeudal culture of his kingdom...
Baker filled his cup in the Middle East: he got a Saudi commitment to pay almost all "in-country costs" (transportation, water, fuel) of maintaining the U.S. forces defending the kingdom, and a pledge from the Kuwaiti government in exile to kick in an additional $5 billion, at least half of which would go to Desert Shield. Britain, though financially strapped, promised a further contribution in the form of additional troops rather than cash. Japanese officials told Brady they would put up more than the $1 billion they had pledged but did not specify an amount. West Germany, which...
...King Fahd took another last week by urging Saudi women as well as young men to assist in the national defense effort. This week authorities will begin registering women volunteers for work in hospitals and medical services. That may gradually open the way for greater female participation in the kingdom's public life. Saudi women remain severely restricted; they are forbidden by law to drive, and so far they have been limited to jobs such as teaching in girls' schools, where they do not come into regular contact with...
...refugees pouring out of Iraq, and Jordanian officials predict that as many as 1 million more may arrive in the coming weeks. Apart from the massive crowds in the border camps, Jordan is swamped with 110,000 refugees packed into dozens of transit camps in Amman. The cash-starved kingdom insists that it cannot cope with the additional tens of thousands still stranded at the border, waiting to cross. "The plight of these people has only evoked the faintest of responses from the world community," complains Crown Prince Hassan, King Hussein's brother...