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...transported, with six of Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers, to a graveyard on the outskirts of Riyadh where commoners as well as royalty are buried. The body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave not far from that of Faisal's fa ther, Ibn Saud, founder of the kingdom...
...reason for the enduring success of the House of Saud is that in moments of crisis its members stand together. Last week the princes demonstrated family solidarity when, in accordance with a prearranged plan, they named Crown Prince Khalid, 62, successor to the assassinated King Faisal and his half brother Fahd, 53, the new Crown Prince and heir apparent...
...House of Saud forms a kind of single-party government in Saudi Arabia. Its members include more than 3,000 princes as well as an estimated 2,000 women whose husbands and sons have special princely privileges. Unfettered by any constitution or laws determining the royal succession, the members decide who will be the country's King. The princes showed extraordinary prescience a few weeks ago by settling on the succession to Faisal and thereby averting a family schism following the King's death...
...Faisal held the title of Premier, Khalid was First Deputy Premier) and Minister of the Interior. Fahd was widely known as the second most powerful man in the country; he had the additional advantage of being the senior member of the "Sudeiri seven"; among 31 surviving sons of Ibn Saud, this sep tet has the same mother, Hossa, a member of the powerful Sudeiri family from the Najd region of central Arabia...
...Middle East, said Henry Kissinger recently, is "an area of remarkable personalities, the last bastion where great men can come out of the desert and do unbelievable things." One of the men that the Secretary surely had in mind was Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, with whom he had ceremoniously sipped mint tea in Riyadh only six days before the King was assassinated last week. When he died at the age of 69, Faisal was not only among the richest men in the world, thanks to Saudi Arabia's incredible oil wealth...