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...educated Saudi Prince Turki attended a lunch given by South Dakota's pro-Arab James Abourezk for 22 other Senators. Individually, Turki and another member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Bandar, met with other Senators. Also from Riyadh came Ghazi Algosaibi, Minister of Industry and Power, and Sulaiman As-Salim, Minister of Commerce. All were low-key but sophisticated salesmen who, in excellent English, made a strong case that their nation needed the planes for defensive purposes. Wisely, they feigned little interest in how many aircraft the U.S. might sell to Israel, saying that was none of their...
...theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly contributors are American or English, the authors come from a total of 131 countries. "A.S.A.," who writes on Mecca, for example, is Saudi Arabian Geographer Ass'ad Sulaiman Abdo...
...bucket-seated C-47, its U.S. Air Force insignia still showing faintly through a poor Iranian paint job, settled to the landing strip at Masjid-i-Sulaiman last week and rolled up to the hangar line. Out stepped Hussein Makki, firebrand of Iran's three-man Oil Liquidation Board, for a look at what an oilfield is like...
Since that time the doughty fanatical firebrand, also called "Champion of Islam" and "Holy Man of the Sulaiman Mountains," has lived by two premises: 1) never meet the British at a conference table (they are too good at it); 2) do your arguing with a gun in the mountains (he is good at it). Result is that whereas the humble Fakir used to be No. 40 on the British list of Waziristan's chieftains, he has now become Troublemaker...
Died. Ala'idin Sulaiman Shah, 74, Sultan of Selangor, third largest of the Federated Malay States; in Klang, Selangor. Some years ago the Sultan and the British agreed that his first son was not fit to succeed him. Two years ago the Sultan journeyed to London to persuade the Colonial Office that his second son should succeed. That trip was in vain: the British insisted on his third son, Cambridge-educated Tungku Laxaman...