Word: mansour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could do little else. Only one of Saud's sons, Prince Mansour, is still around the palace, and his powers are largely ceremonial. The King's last personal armed force is being merged into the army. The King, whose cunning is legendary, may use his fortune, estimated at more than $100 million, to buy out his pro-Feisal kinsmen. The outlook was perhaps best forecast by an Arab journalist: "I see ahead a period of intrigue and suspicion, in which a passing word from a harem woman might take the sleep for nights from the eyes of important...
Saud caved in. Ordered out of the country, Ben Salem, who has his fortune stashed in European banks, flew off nonchalantly to Beirut. Forty-eight hours later, Saud got an even worse shock: one of his favorite wives, handsome Princess Im Mansour, vanished from the palace to join her lover, Ben Salem, in exile. The personal and political blows combined to impair the regal health once again. Moslem pilgrims to Mecca who were booked on half a dozen jet flights home suddenly found their passages had been canceled. Instead, the airliners flew to Riyadh, picked up the ailing King...
Meanwhile, the Egyptians mercilessly attack Saudi Arabia's rulers as corrupt and sybaritic. One member of the Saudi royal house hired a French movie crew to photograph his gambols with girl friends. Prince Mansour delights bartenders...
Beirut by paying $25 for a $1 shot of Scotch. Mansour's father, King Saud, 60, communes with his concubines four times a day: before morning prayers, after lunch, before dinner, and at night. Saud, apparently frightened of a Yemen-style coup, has for weeks slept each night in a different bedroom of his palace. He has put top military men under house arrest, is surrounded by 200 of Hussein's Jordanian guards, dressed in Saudi uniforms, because he considers them more reliable than his own Saudis. His air force has been grounded since September, when seven pilots...