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...occasion was the state visit of King Saud of Saudi Arabia to the neighboring sheikdom of Kuwait. A Connecticut-sized chunk of desert bordering on the Persian Gulf, Kuwait is so rich from oil that it literally does not know what to do with all its money. Kuwait's portly ruler, Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah, has an annual income of $200 million but modestly keeps only one wife and a single Cadillac. Saud has a yearly income of $320 million, keeps four wives, some 100 concubines, countless cars...
...comes hard anyway, Nasser's street mobs and secret agents have so riled the Arab leaders that nearly all mistrust him. Though they still are wary of his power over the bazaars and the street mobs, neither Jordan's King Hussein, nor Saudi Arabia's King Saud nor Iraq's Premier Karim Kassem has proved willing to accept his leadership. The Sudan, Libya and Lebanon remain cautiously aloof, despite Nasser's best efforts. Though Nasser supported the Algerian rebels with arms and sanctuary, the current peace negotiations are the work of Tunisia's moderate...
...King Saud of Saudi Arabia gave no reasons, but his message was plain: as of April 1962, the U.S. would no longer be permitted to use its multimillion-dollar airbase at Dhahran on Saudi Arabia's east
Baksheesh Back. The King offered a new Cabinet balanced between four princes and six commoners. The key post of Finance went to Saud's brother Prince Talal, whose powerful voice in the family councils had cinched Feisal's rise and Saud's demotion two years before. The new Minister of Petroleum, Mines and Education is Abdullah Tariki, the aggressively nationalistic University of Texas-trained geologist who in Arab councils argues that all the Arab countries should be getting a larger share of oil-company profits...
...King Saud talked vaguely of setting up a legislature and holding elections. But if the shake-up had a political lesson to offer, it was rather that austerity does not go down well with the princes of Saudi Arabia-especially in a year when oil revenues are expected to rise from $304 million to $320 million. Sighed one Arabian merchant happily: "The King of baksheesh is back on his throne...