Word: saud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Western intelligence experts was that the attackers were members of the 'Utaibah tribe, a migratory Sunni group that still wanders with its herds of goats and sheep between Mecca and Riyadh. The group apparently is small in number and represents no serious political threat to the House of Saud...
...being my wartime boss at M16, never gave me an impression of having any serious intellectual interests. I regarded him as just an adventurer, who found in Stalin's very ruthlessness something to admire, as his father, St. John Philby, the Arabist, had found in King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Anyway, his appalling stutter would have precluded any sort of Marxist dissertation: Marx spoken is bad enough, but Marx stuttered would be intolerable...
...above the law and law is supreme. If a crime is committed by a ruler, an emperor, he is as liable to punishment for it as the meanest and commonest of his subjects." As a precedent, one Cairo expert notes that in 1964 the late King Saud of Saudi Arabia was tried, deposed and banished by an Islamic court for conduct unbecoming a Muslim ruler-namely, drinking, gambling and womanizing...
...destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison Avenue. "Just imagine," she said, "what would happen if the Shah of Iran visited him." For similar reasons, the same fate has befallen Barbra Streisand, Pat Lawford and even dashing Princeton-educated Prince Saud, the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, who was voted out of a Fifth Avenue flat because of fears of anti-Arab protests...
...been consulted during those talks, are deeply upset that Sadat's initiative has had the effect of splitting the Arab world, and of increasing the influence of the radical Arab states. The Saudis are also distrustful of the terms of the peace treaty itself. As Foreign Minister Prince Saud said early this month: "It is impossible to admit any settlement not based on the return of Jerusalem to its 1967 status as an Arab and Muslim city." Crown Prince Fahd took the same line when he declared during a visit to Paris last week: "We either live in Jerusalem...