Word: saud
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...calling his own tune, and as a result, he was in fairly constant trouble with his boss. Once on a diplomatic visit to Iraq, Salem impulsively waved aside all Egyptian objections to a pact between Iraq and its neighbors, Syria and Jordan. Egypt's closest ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, promptly raised a howl of protest, and Nasser hastily sent Salem off on a "leave of absence." He flew into a fit of temperament that only his older brother, Wing Commander Gamal Salem, the Deputy Premier, was able to smooth over. Again, at a diplomatic conference in India...
...past three weeks, 173 Palestinian Arabs have been quietly deported from Saudi Arabia - 121 of them Aramco employees - and U.S. oilmen cannot get an official explanation. The unofficial explanation is that King Saud is taking capricious revenge on Hashimites (a rival Arab dynasty that gets on reasonably well with Palestinians). Hashimite Iraq recently signed a defense treaty with NATO partner Turkey, thereby splitting up the neutral Arab bloc for the first time. King Saud, one of 40 sons of the late great Lion of the Desert Ibn Saud, has not yet proven himself as lionhearted as his father, and reportedly...
Royal Spending. Nobody knows for certain the size of Saudi Arabia's royal family. The late King Ibn Saud had either 32, 37 or 40 princely sons. Young Prince Abdullah, an amiable lad, told me that the present King Saud likes to pretend sensitivity about the number of his own progeny. "Sometimes he says to us older boys, 'You are fine lads, but you are enough'; so then we laugh at him and say. 'The house is full of youngsters, and they're all yours.' Then he says, acting angry, 'Oh, no, there...
...Every night the royal board seats from 80 to 200 guests and retainers, where the King, a huge man, big of bone and body in his father's mold, presides with courtly grace. In the first year of his reign, he has traveled more widely than old Ibn Saud ever did. One trip south, which took him over some 3,500 kilometers of flinty desert innocent of all roads, was an astonishing testimonial to the durability not only of the King himself but of his fleet of U.S. autos, including the trucks in which he carried heavy bags...
...gold that nothing in his training could have anticipated or prepared him to spend wisely. He left the land to his sons to make or break. In Saudi Arabia there are signs-new hospitals, new roads, new schools (though not enough of them), a bustle on all sides-that Saud will make it if he can, and if the oil holds out. It should: the country has the largest proved reserves in the world...