Word: saud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowhere is concern over the future more manifest than in Saudi Arabia, where a feudal monarchy rules a sparsely settled (estimated pop. between 4 million and 7 million) land containing 23.2% of the world's proven oil reserves. The ruling House of Saud was badly shaken by last month's attack on the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest shrine in Islam. It was originally reported that the attacking guerrillas were religious fundamentalists who were seeking the recognition of their leader as the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah. Saudi officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were...
...their fourth price-raising session in a year, the cartel's biggest producer took preventive action. In a surprise announcement that whipped the money markets into a frenzy and sent gold leaping to yet another alltime high of $462 per oz., the desert kingdom of the House of Saud, long regarded as the quintessential OPEC moderate, announced one of the biggest increases in the cartel's 19-year history...
...last of the invaders were finally routed from the mosque's catacomb-like basement last week, but not before the incident had shaken the House of Saud to its sandy foundations. Most authorities are now convinced that the group, which numbered between 200 and 300, was trained and armed in Marxist South Yemen, and that the tab for the venture was picked up by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The Saudis also claimed that the young leader of the group, Mohammed al-Quraishi, a theology student who called himself the Muslim Mahdi (Messiah), had been killed in the fighting...
...Kaba, a cube-shaped structure that is believed to have been built by Abraham in God's honor. Last week the siege was lifted after eight days of fighting; but the assault had shaken the Islamic world and rocked Saudi Arabia's ruling family, the House of Saud. The chronology of the attack was pieced together by TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Dean Brelis. His report...
...previously agitated against TV, radio and women's rights. Yet it was clear that they were well trained, probably in South Yemen, and that the operation had been well planned. Said one Western intelligence official in the Middle East: "This was a direct attack against the House of Saud. You can be sure that the end of the battle of the Sacred Mosque is not the last we will hear of trouble in Saudi Arabia...