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...King's next challenge to the brother who had saved his throne came with the recent arrest of Mohammed al Jasir, the scholarly editor of Riyadh's weekly newspaper Al Yamamah (The Dove), who had been casually tossed into jail, in the old way, by King Saud. Feisal heatedly protested that such arbitrary actions infringed on his new powers as Interior Minister. The King stared at him through his thick glasses, lumpily stood his ground. Feisal turned in his resignation...
Ready to Wait. For Indiana's enterprisers, who are bidding for a choice zone around the capital city of Riyadh, Tariki hiked his opening demand to a 60-40 profit split, also "integrated1' right up to the gas pump. Indiana's President John Eldred Swearingen publicly rejected these terms last week, but was obviously ready to bargain further. Foreign oilmen pointed out that Tariki's deal with the Japanese promised at best small profit in limited markets, and only after years of waiting; Western companies alone, with their tanker fleets, refining facilities and extensive marketing systems...
...rumors swirled around his desert kingdom, King Saud sulked in seclusion in the private quarters of his vast, chandelier-festooned palace at Riyadh. He stopped presiding over the grand luncheons and dinners served daily in the palace dining hall to visitors and hangers-on. The loudspeakers, which customarily bellow the latest news during mealtimes, were silenced. The lord of the world's richest oil sands was so strapped for cash that his yacht Monsour had been seized in Genoa for nonpayment of an Italian architect's $600,000 fee. He was under intense pressure from royal family members...
...streets of Riyadh outside the palace, there was open muttering against the King. The keeper of Islam's holy places was being denounced by Nasser's partisans throughout the Middle East as the dog who had plotted to kill their hero. Saud duly appointed a commission of notables to investigate Nasser's charges that he had paid out $5,600,000 for the job. But then Riyadh bankers refused to answer their questions, apparently on Saud's orders, and they indignantly resigned...
Explaining that the code word for the plot was "the building," Serraj produced copies of three cables. The first, addressed by Ibrahim to Umm Emir Khalid, the name of his royal daughter in Riyadh, said: "We arrived safely. We saw the building and completed definite agreement. Send 200 immediately. Am waiting in Damascus at Hotel Bilat Rashid for your prompt answer. Your father Assad Ibrahim." The second said: "Building in perfect condition, but he wants second half of money before transferring building as planned. Necessary repairs will be made after arrival of your remittance. Assad Ibrahim." Serraj handed around photostats...