Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Missing Member. Such autonomy was, in part, deliberately designed to make membership attractive to Saudi Arabia's King Saud. But last week the Middle East seethed with rumors. Nasser's charge that Saud had plotted his assassination, had put the feudal Saudi regime in deep trouble. There were stories of executions, of arrests, of planned coups d'état by rival princes...
Behind the wild stories were these ascertainable facts: Saud and his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, are divided over Feisal's insistence on coming to some sort of terms with Nasser's new union. Arrests have been made, including at least one royal prince. Saudi Arabia has turned away all reporters at its borders for the last two weeks...
Whatever his sympathies, Saud cannot afford to ignore Nasser's appeal to his impoverished subjects. Every Saudi Arabian village has radios tuned to Cairo's broadcasts. Egyptian technicians and teachers have deeply infiltrated the kingdom. For all his oil riches, Saud's financial position is so bad that world banks ceased several months ago to honor Saudi letters of credit. Educated Saudis almost to a man are disgusted. Said one: "The King is burning up our wealth, wasting, wasting everywhere-palaces, women, bribes. He is destroying our country. It is a crime that cannot...