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Another commonly mentioned possibility to succeed Thieu is a military directorate: an army group consisting of the most influential military figures in the country, including "Big" Minh. The military directorate might consolidate a defense but, given the long-term military disadvantage of the Saigon side, its aim would of necessity be a negotiated settlement with the Communists...
...submachine guns seized the prince. The King was rushed to a nearby hospital; shortly after noon an announcer on Radio Riyadh, his voice sobbing with emotion, said that Faisal was dead. Soon after, Radio Riyadh reported that the royal family had chosen Crown Prince Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz to succeed his brother and that Interior Minister Prince Fahd had been named Crown Prince (see box following page...
...issue was over which half brother of King Faisal should succeed him: the ailing, ineffectual Khalid, who a decade earlier had been named Crown Prince following Faisal's accession to the throne, or the able, ambitious Prince Fahd, Saudi Arabia's Second Deputy Premier (King 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...
...other main non-Communist opposition force, the most militant Buddhists, who favor entering directly into a coalition government with the Communists. Neither Ky nor General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, an ex-chief of state who now leads the Buddhist opposition, seems to have enough of a personal following to succeed in replacing Thieu. Moreover, if government forces stop the Communist advance in Military Region III, the eleven-province area around Saigon, then much of the pressure on Thieu will evaporate...
...failure in the Middle East was initially greeted with far more sympathy than might have been expected. Europeans, many of whom had not expected the shuttle to succeed, were disappointed but not surprised. Said a West German Foreign Ministry official: "It was a good try. He did all that was humanly possible." A top official in Canada's Department of External Affairs agreed, "He came closer than anybody in a quarter of a century toward an agreement in the area." An editorial in the Guardian reminded Britons, "No one wins every poker game, not even Metternich, not even Henry Kissinger...