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Pity Prince Saud al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and a possible future king. One among several Arab potentates who have been eying the U.S. real estate market lately, he wanted to have a Manhattan pied-a-terre. Saud's choice was a twelve-room, $600,000 coop apartment on Park Avenue owned by Bruce A. Norris, president of the Detroit Red Wings. Alas, it was not to be. After months of meetings, the other tenants decided not to accept Saud as a co-owner-because of their fear of possible political violence if he moved in. Said...
...Saud, 37, travels to New York City sometimes on business of his own and sometimes to head his country's delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. For a while at least he will presumably have to make do, as he has in the past, with a humble suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
...policy of partnership is supported by King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz, who succeeded the slain Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud in 1975, and the older men, mostly royal princes, who run many of the ministries. But the men who breathe life into the policy are a lively, hard-driving group of young technocrats whose attitudes are shaping the country. They are known as the "American Mafia," because they were educated in the U.S. The best known of the group is Yamani, 47, who studied at Harvard. Not a member of the numerous royal family (there are more than...
...Prince Saud, 36, a son of the late King Faisal and a 1965 economics graduate of Princeton, is now Foreign Minister. Tall and spare, he bears a striking resemblance to his father. The prince worked his way up in the Ministry of Petroleum, where he became Yamani's deputy before switching over in 1975 to foreign affairs...
Soon after the Cairo conference got under way, however, Saudi Arabia's debonair Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, rose to announce that his country was pledging $1 billion in aid to black Africa. Suddenly, other oil-rich Arabs chimed in-Kuwait with $240 million, the United Arab Emirates with $136 million and Qatar with $76 million. Rather like poor relatives embarrassed by the contributions of wealthier family members, even Jordan and Egypt -which is currently negotiating a $450 million loan from the International Monetary Fund-pledged $1 million apiece to help guerrilla organizations in southern Africa...