Word: talal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ended in political disaster: his extravagant giving and building exhausted the treasury and debased the currency, his clumsy plots against President Nasser exposed his regime to ridicule and isolation in the Arab world. The crowning blow had fallen when his younger brothers, led by the openly contemptuous Prince Talal, tongue-lashed him last year in private family council...
...shoot down his grandfather, King Abdullah, before Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock; legend has it that the boy stood erect and defiant as the King's bodyguard fell to the ground in fright. As a lad of 16, he had seen his mad father, Crown Prince Talal, removed from the throne. At 18, slight, down-mustached Hussein became King of the impoverished desert kingdom of Jordan. Most of his country's people-the 900,000 Palestinians incorporated into his kingdom after Israel became a nation-plainly felt no loyalty to King or kingdom. His most trusted...
Murder at the Mosque. Hussein grew up in this back-country court in a feverish atmosphere of family jealousies. Grandfather Abdullah had three wives, whose offspring schemed to-obtain the succession. His father Talal was an un happy, unstable man who beat Hussein's mother and denounced his own father Abdullah as a British puppet. The old King took to the young princeling. Hussein galloped on his blooded Arabian mare through the hills of his grandfather's summer place near Jericho, and hunted small game with the rifle that Abdullah had given him. One of his grandfather...
Last July, for the observance of the third anniversary of El Solh's murder, another Ibn Saud heir, brawny, globetrotting Talal, son No. 18, journeyed to Lebanon to pay his respects to the bereaved. His piercing eye soon singled out Mona, the dead Premier's sparkling 18-year-old third daughter. After one quick glimpse. Talal invited himself to dinner on the following day. A day later, he proposed marriage. Mme. El Solh said it was up to Mona, and Mona cast down her eyes and murmured yes. Last week, after agreeing to pay a modest dowry...
...rich Talal provided his bride with a few trinkets as well. Items: a necklace containing 263 diamonds and an emerald; an engagement ring with a marquise diamond approximately an inch long, half an inch wide; a gold mesh bracelet, a diamond-studded necklace, and a hunting-case wristwatch adorned with seven large diamonds and several smaller ones. More important, Talal bought himself a 20-room mansion on the mountain road to Damascus, which suggested that Mona would not be cooped up all year round in a Saudi Arabian harem...