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...Deathbed Oath. The two men have long been antagonists. Their father, the late King Ibn Saud once said, "I wish that Feisal had been born twins and Saud had never been born at all." Nevertheless, Saud was the oldest son and was therefore named Crown Prince. On his deathbed, Ibn Saud made Feisal swear on the Koran that he would not seek the throne as long as Saud lived...
Keeping the oath was not easy. As King, Saud squandered fortunes on his pleasures, chief of which were a huge harem. Next to women, Saud liked air-conditioned Cadillacs best, and next to Cadillacs, intrigue. In contrast, Feisal was almost a puritan: though thrice married, he lives with only one wife at a time and, for the past 20 years, his consort has been Turkish-educated Princess Iffat. He speaks fluent French and English as well as Arabic, and has tried to use his country's oil millions for the benefit of the people...
...dispute between their two countries over Yemen's civil war-which last week finally headed for an armistice. Back home, Feisal was depressed to find that King Saud and his sons had been up to their old tricks. Finally, Feisal decided to break his long-kept oath in favor of the national interest. He ordered the national council convened, and while the fatwa was being drawn up, Feisal traveled slowly across the country in a 400-car motorcade, making repeated halts to attract maximum attention. Met with the announcement that he was to be King in place of Saud...
This week the show profiled one of Saudek's added starters, Mary S. McDowell, a Brooklyn schoolteacher who lost her job in 1917 because she refused to sign a loyalty oath or do Red Cross work. She was a Quaker and a pacifist and she knew what she believed, even though her hope for marriage had ended when a boy who loved her died in France. Of the two plays so far, this one was somewhat the better, largely because Rosemary Harris was so gently formidable as an embodiment of unbreakable principle...
Monro said that both Phillips Brooks House and the Student Employment Office are exploring ways they could be eligible for federal anti-poverty dollars while remaining "wary of the oath and affidavit problem...