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Plots & Propaganda. Saud and Nasser are parted by more than...
...ruler of oil-rich Saudi Arabia (estimated annual revenue from oil: about $400 million) regards Nasser as a Marxist firebrand whose form of "Arab socialism" defiles the Koran; Nasser denounces Saud as a feudal overlord and satyr who keeps his people in bondage. Each morning Radio Cairo broadcasts prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent...
Thus, last month, when an Egyptian ship docked at Jidda with a fresh canopy and a boatload of pilgrims who flaunted 5-ft. colored portraits of Nasser, King Saud became furious; police announced that the pilgrims could land, but the holy carpet could not. In the end, neither did! Budgets & Bureaucracy. Saud is well aware that Nasser's propaganda has awakened millions of illiterate Saudis to the world beyond their desert peninsula. Nowadays, anti-Saud pamphlets are appearing on the desks of civil servants and army officers throughout the country. In addition, hundreds of young, well-to-do Saudis...
Until recently, the country's budget was recorded by longhand in a grey, clothbound ledger by an old friend of Saud's father. Now there is a published annual budget, and last year Saud established a national economic planning board, with a former officer of the World Bank acting as adviser. But the adviser's plan for a $10 million survey of northern territories is snared in a maze of royal bureaucratic procedure; out of $70 million earmarked for development, $50 million is unspent...
Obedience & Opposition. King Saud's greatest progress has to do with education. In a population that may range from 3,000,000 to 10,000,000 (no one is sure because there has never been a census), about 150,000 are now students; new schools are going up at the rate of 100 a year. Poor families are paid about $20 a month for each child in class...