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...Last spring the Saudi Arabian government signed a $72,400 contract with a consortium of five Midwestern universities calling for U.S. professors to act as consultants to the new University of Riyadh. The consortium -made up of Indiana University, Michigan State University and the Universities of Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin-then submitted a list of 30 faculty members as candidates for the trip to Riyadh. The Saudis selected ten; among those eliminated were the only Jews nominated, two professors at Wisconsin...
That exclusion could have been coincidental. But in May, while the U.S. team was in Riyadh, Ralph Smuckler, dean of international studies at Michigan State and a member of the consortium's board, wrote to officials at Riyadh University, asking permission to visit. Smuckler, who is Jewish, did not get answers to his letters to the Saudis, and there was no response to his visa application through the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. At that point Michigan State withdrew from the Riyadh project...
Last week the consortium met in Chicago and voted unanimously to abandon the entire Riyadh project unless "an understanding can be reached" with the Saudis, preventing any ethnic, religious, racial or sex discrimination. Says David Johnson, dean of international studies at Wisconsin: "We are not really dependent on an infusion of Arabian funds. Even if we were, this organization is not going to prostitute itself for oil money...
...time of King Faisal's death, the government announced that the prince was mentally deranged-and thus presumably would escape death. After further investigation, however, Saudi authorities concluded that the murder had been the politically motivated act of a sane man. In fact, said Radio Riyadh, the prince had confessed to the assassination, explaining it as an effort to rid Saudi Arabia of the rule of Islam because it stood "in the way of the development of the country...
Died. Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, 26, nephew and assassin of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal; in a public beheading in Riyadh's Court of Justice Square (see THE WORLD...