Word: talal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...gentle and cultivated man when rational, King Talal at 43 was forced to abdicate in 1952. "Please thank the government," he said when told the news, and then quietly removed himself to a sanitarium near Istanbul, where he now lives...