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King Hussein of Jordan, a strong ally of Iraq, received Time Inc. Senior Editor Murray J. Gart and TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis last week in his private office on the ground floor of Basman Palace, overlooking Amman. Hussein, who ascended to the Hashemite throne in 1953, has survived a dozen attempts on his life to become the region's senior leader. Generally regarded as a moderate, he has maintained close ties to the U.S., even though he rejected the 1978 Camp David accords on the grounds that they did not go far enough toward solving the Palestinian problem...
Richard II shows us a rightful but incompetent king. The two Henry IV plays give us an efficient ruler who usurped the throne. Only in Henry V are legitimacy and lustrous leadership combined in one man. Last summer, the American Shakespeare Theater's new artistic director, Peter Coe, chose Henry V to inaugurate his tenure and was lucky enough to enlist the formidable Christropher Plummer for the title role. Coe is kicking off this season with the second play in the sequence, which the AST has not offered for 20 years...
Even for a company of Bechtel's resources, experience and depth, Jubail represented a staggering undertaking. When the site for the new city was officially dedicated in October 1977 by King Khalid, who had ascended to the Saudi throne on the death of his half-brother Faisal two years earlier, there was little at Jubail but scrub, sand and the nearby fishing village of Al Jubail seven miles to the south on the Persian Gulf. Within twelve months, enough trailers to house 13,000 workers had been plopped onto the sandscape. A 13,000-ft. runway, capable of receiving...
Second in line to the throne behind his father, the royal infant will be known as Prince William of Wales...
...usually recognized as King the oldest survivor of the 45 legitimate sons born to the various wives of Ibn Saud. The princes last week demonstrated family solidarity again by naming Crown Prince Fahd to in the late King Khalid, and Abdullah, who had been second in line for the throne, to be the new Crown Prince and heir apparent of the immensely wealthy oil kingdom...