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...crisis that has stalked the world since the Middle East's October war presents some internal problems for Saudia Arabia. No one appreciates those problems more than somber King Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud. Even as OPEC oil, of which Faisal's reserves constitute the largest share, rocks Western economies, the West's relentless thirst for petroleum is in turn forcing far-reaching modernization on Faisal's desert kingdom. Faisal has faced no greater quandary since he displaced his inept half brother Saud from the throne in 1964. At that time, hard...
...Saud dynasty's hold on Saudi Arabia has been precarious until recently. The family dominated the rudimentary kingdom for more than 150 years until 1891, when they were driven out by stronger tribes. In 1901, however, Faisal's father, crusty Abdul Aziz, popularly known as Ibn Saud, roared out of what is now Kuwait to recover power. Ibn Saud gradually regained the kingship in rolling battles that involved shifting tribal loyalties and, eventually, British intrigue. Finally, in 1925 a force of 45,000 Bedouins led by Faisal - then his father's fa vorite lieutenant - recaptured Mecca...
Surely one of history's greatest bargains, ranking with the legendary purchase of Manhattan for $24, is an obscure contract negotiated in 1933. For a loan of exactly $170,327.50, Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud granted the Standard Oil Co. of California a 60-year, exclusive concession to 320,000 sq. mi. of desert. So huge were the oil reserves when finally discovered, and so large the investment needs, that SoCal could not exploit them alone. It took on co-venturers, forming the Arabian American...
...results. First, the Dutch Ambassador to Iran was sent to Arab capitals to ask for "understanding." When that failed, a special emissary was dispatched with a personal message from Queen Juliana to King Feisal of Saudi Arabia, recalling the special relationship between her mother Queen Wilhelmina and King Saud. His answer has not been made public but in formed sources say the Dutch got nowhere...
...dawn, prays-one of five daily prayer sessions-and rides in the front seat of a Chrysler New Yorker from his unostentatious villa to his small, paneled office in the green-roofed presidential palace in Riyadh. He never uses the sprawling $60 million palace built by the profligate Saud. When an interior decorator had a sumptuous bath installed just off Feisal's bedroom in the villa, the King ordered it replaced with a less lavish model. "We are a simple family," he explained...