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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three times during the past month, Fahd's considerable entourage of doctors, nurses, advisers, relatives, friends and servants has been dispatched to the airport for an overseas flight, only to be told to return to the royal palace. The sudden changes in plan apparently result from the determination of Fahd's closest relatives to secure their positions in the new order before the King is sent away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MONARCH IN NAME ONLY | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...media out for safety reasons," says TIME's Patrick Dawson. "Of course the FBI is not terribly fond of public scrutiny, either." Another possible reason for the withdrawal: Agents may be trying to isolate the Freemen. "I think anyone in there would be nervous if all of a sudden the media were pulled away," Dawson says. "To them, the media have been a buffer, a referee of sorts." -->