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...fighting went on, Saddam Hussein tried to get new pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a peace deal could be worked out, Abdullah claimed, Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay Iran for war reparations. Said Abdullah: "Any price in terms of money is worth it if we can get rid of this pestilence...
...upward stares when he toured the sights of China, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 35 and 7 ft. 2 in., was even more the center of attraction on the basketball court. To the members of the Chinese national basketball team, Jabbar and the other visiting U.S. pros must have looked like a Western version of the Great Wall. "They are the world's best," says Chinese Center Han Pengshan, 20, something of a tourist attraction himself at 7 ft. 3 in. "They have springs on their feet...
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...
...expansive sweep of civil engineering, from the pyramids of the Nile to the construction of the Panama Canal, nothing so huge, or costly, as Jubail has ever before been attempted by anyone." Says Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail, whose government has already spent $35 billion on Jubail and its smaller sister project Yanbu, and plans to spend upwards of $100 billion more in years to come: "We simply cannot exaggerate what is going on out here." Jubail is, in brief, a project of moon-landing proportions, one that in the very grandeur and scope of its conception...
DIED. Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, 69, King of Saudi Arabia and Imam and Protector of the Wahhabis; of a heart attack; in Taif, Saudi Arabia (see SPECIAL SECTION...