Word: turki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, 49, and his wife Princess Hend seemed decorous, at least at first. Indeed, he is still listed as Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of Defense and is a brother of Saudi King Fahd. But the couple, like Mohammad and Tarek, tended to party all night and sleep all day, and traveled in a convoy of three limousines, two security cars and a van. They also became chummy with Alvin Malnik, a Miami attorney said to have underworld connections. It was not until last February, however, that their image problem got serious. After a series...
When Prince Turki and Princess Hend moved to wealthy Indian Creek, neighbors were soon taken aback. The prince's small herd of goats began to roam onto adjacent lawns. Last spring the royal couple threw a party for their three-year-old son that featured circus performers, an orchestra, fireworks, kosher hot dogs and a birthday cake on which live flamingos perched. The final straw came when the prince and princess renovated their house-once the staid Woolworth mansion-in dissonant contemporary style, including a discothèque and a device that simulates thunder. "It looks," a local arbiter...
Beginning this spring, the déclassé clan tried to turn over a new leaf; typically, it was gold. They became philanthropists, giving away as much as $1 million in a few months, apparently to buy good will. Turki gave $300,000 to the University of Miami School of Medicine. Mohammad, among his other donations, doled out $50,000 to Washington and $30,000 to Opa-Locka, Fla. (pop. 14,600). At least one offer was refused: when Tarek volunteered to pay for a new $161 million Miami stadium, city officials said it was an attempt to undermine local...
...large audience frequently interupted the speakers, prompting moderator Roger Fisher '43, Williston Professor of Law, to call for order half a dozen times. Partisan members of the audience shouted down questioners several times, and on one occasion a policeman had to restrain an angry man from shouting his opinion. Turki, who also said the Palestinians "would be totally self-deceiving if we didn't see the Camp David accords as totally divorced from reality," drew the sharpest reaction from the crowd and from fellow panelists...
Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, called Turki a "metaphysical cheerleader" and said, "We must isolate people like Mr. Turki--get them out of the dialogue, and get some people willing to discuss the issue. No one in this room really believes Israel or Palestine will go away...