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...Prince Saud al Faisal, 36, the Princeton-educated Foreign Minister, described his country's policy by saying, "It is the unwavering position of the kingdom that all the problems in our area should be solved by Arabs. We do not believe in individual solutions ... Our permanent and basic aim is to foster Islamic and Arabic interests...
...some ways, the relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has been a personal one, based upon the House of Saud and the President in the White House. The Saudis now feel threatened by the distance they see between themselves and the Carter Administration. There is a sense in Saudi Arabia that a time of decision is rapidly approaching, a decision that could dramatically alter the special friendship that has existed with the U.S. Until recently, the Saudis believed that their interests were almost identical with those of the U.S., whether they concerned oil, investments or defense. It went...
Added Akins: "It would make it more difficult for the House of Saud, for example, if we had a bunch of gunboats tootling around the Persian Gulf. The only reaction [among Saudi subjects] would be: 'Aha! You see, these boys are in the pockets of the Americans. The Americans are pushing them around, and these people have...
...conflict came at an awkward moment for Saudi Arabia; its Foreign Minister, Prince Saud, was receiving his South Yemeni counterpart when the violence broke out. The two men had been arranging a visit to Riyadh by South Yemen's President, Abdel Fattah Ismail, in an attempt to relax regional tensions, ultimately leading to the departure of a reported 3,900 Soviet, Cuban and East German troops and advisers harbored by the South Yemen government. The Saudis, who have underwritten 1 billion dollars in arms for the northern San'a regime, immediately put their 45,000-man army...
Another important difference between Iran and Saudi Arabia is that Saudi rulers maintain tight links with the country's religious leaders. Since the early 19th century the House of Saud has had close contacts with the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Muslims who dominate the country's religious life. Opinions of the ulema, the leading religious authorities, are sought on major issues. Their power was demonstrated last year when they successfully demanded the razing of an entire modern city that had been built for pilgrims near Mecca on the sacred Hill of Arafat. The ulema ordered it destroyed...