Word: riyadh
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...Regard not those killed for the sake of Allah as dead, for they are alive beside him, resplendent in his favor and rejoicing . . ." With those words in homage to the late King Faisal, Radio Riyadh thus ended its announcement that Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, the 26-year-old member of the Saudi Arabian royal family who murdered his uncle, King Faisal, last March 25 (TIME, April 7), had himself been put to death...
...vans rumbled through the streets of the Saudi capital one afternoon last week announcing that a sharia (religious) court had found the prince guilty and he would be executed immediately. Within minutes, an estimated 6,000 Saudis streamed into the city's Court of Justice Square facing the Riyadh Mosque. At the appointed hour, the young prince was led, blindfolded, to the square. As he knelt with his hands tied behind his back, one of the sharia judges read him the court's verdict. Immediately thereafter, in keeping with the words of the Prophet Mohammed, "a soul...
Fahd's power derives in part from his talent for administration and specialized knowledge, but also from his remarkable skill in dealing with the desert tribes, from which his family emerged. At his villa in Riyadh, he keeps open house continuously for tribesmen from the desert. "He has the knack of welcoming a visitor as if he has waited all his life to meet him," notes TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. " 'He is so amiable and agreeable in conversation,' one friend says, 'that he makes you think he agrees with you, no matter what you discuss...
...remarkable personalities, the last bastion where great men can come out of the desert and do unbelievable things." One of the men that the Secretary surely had in mind was Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, with whom he had ceremoniously sipped mint tea in Riyadh only six days before the King was assassinated last week. When he died at the age of 69, Faisal was not only among the richest men in the world, thanks to Saudi Arabia's incredible oil wealth, but one of its last absolute monarchs, and a powerful voice for conservatism...
Died. Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, 69, austere absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia; of gunshot wounds inflicted by his nephew, Prince Faisal ibn Musaed; during a royal audience in the Saudi capital of Riyadh (see THE U.S. & THE WORLD...