Word: saud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Saud so mismanaged Saudi Arabia's affairs that when his own family forced him into exile in 1964, it gladly agreed to pay him a pension of $600,000 a year just to be free...
Despite his wealth, which would be welcome almost anywhere in the world, it came as a surprise when Saud's old foe, Gamal Abdel Nasser, last December allowed Saud to take up residence in Egypt. Last week Saud, 65, showed that he is not an ungrateful guest. Flying to Yemen, he gave his wholehearted blessing to the republican regime of Nasser's puppet, General Abdullah Sallal, and declared that he himself is "the only legitimate monarch of Saudi Arabia." Back in Cairo, he went on the air to announce that he had "decided to return home at whatever...
Pleasure & Pain. Despite the $250 million that he is estimated to have in Swiss banks, Saud's pleasures have lately been somewhat curtailed. He suffers from ulcers and cirrhosis of the liver, has traveled from Beirut to Boston looking for doctors to repair his chronically overworked digestive tract...
Once called "the harem king" by Nasser, Saud now has an entourage of only 40 members, including the four wives permitted by Moslem law and four concubines. He brought 32 limousines and sports cars with him when he moved from Athens to Egypt. As the price of his entry into Egypt Saud reportedly had to pay $5,000,000 into Nasser's treasury. For months, he and his retinue occupied two floors in Shepheard's Hotel, where he nightly entertained guests in the "Scheherazade Salon." Now Nasser has provided him with a suburban Cairo palace that once belonged...
Even though Saud had refrained from any political statements until last week, Feisal cut off Saud's princely pension as soon as he arrived in Egypt and embraced Nasser. His three-day triumphal "state visit" to Yemen was all the more ironical because it was Saud who in 1962 pledged Saudi Arabian support for the royalist guerrillas, who now hold two-thirds of the country and are waging a bloody civil war against Sallal's republicans and the 40,000 Egyptian troops allied with them. Now Saud ridicules the royalists as "conceited fellows," denounces Feisal, who gives them...