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...country to solidify support for the royal family. Crown Prince Fahd, Deputy Prime Minister and heir presumptive to the throne, continues to handle day-to-day chores; most-although not all-observers in Riyadh believe his authority has increased as he seeks to carry out reforms to quell potential unrest. The next princes in line, National Guard Commander Abdullah and Defense Minister Sultan, seem to have buried their long-running feud in the interests of family unity...
Arab control. These Saudi conservatives argue that high production will not solve the problem of internal discontent, as evidenced not only by the Mecca siege but by sporadic unrest among Shi'ite Muslim workers in the oilfields of the country's eastern province...
...been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have been mutated; Castroism is infecting other islands, notably Grenada. In many parts of the West Indies, political, economic and social unrest are curdling the coconut milk...
...recent take-over of the mosque in Mecca--now known to be a well-organized attempt by Moslem fundamentalists to overthrow the Saudi leadership and not the isolated work of Shiite fanatics--showed that instability in the region is more likely to stem from domestic political unrest them from foreign intervention...
...Ruhollah Khomeini's government had ejected a handful of Western journalists, including TIME'S Bruce van Voorst and Roland Flamini. Those who remained met relatively little hostility as they covered the daily anti-U.S. demonstrations in Tehran. But when the press rushed last month to cover unrest in the city of Tabriz, government officials were infuriated. Says Robert Semple, foreign editor of the New York Times: "It persuaded them that the U.S. press was a greater liability than benefit...