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...saying things that I would not tell many other people," Saudi Arabia's King Faisal cautioned while discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict with some Americans last week. His audience was flattered, but not for the first time. After leaving Washington on Jan. 17, the 53 U.S. businessmen, journalists and TIME editors and others on TIME'S Middle East news tour found themselves the subjects of earnest attention by the area's Kings, Emirs, Prime Ministers, and Presidents...
Landing in the evening in Kuwait, the businessmen passed over brilliant flares of burning gas from acres of oilfields. In Dubai they toured the Persian Gulf harbor in the Sheik's dhow. The hour-long audience with Faisal (see THE WORLD) took place beneath crystal chandeliers in the royal palace in Riyadh while bodyguards poured tiny cups of bitter coffee...
Never before in history has such an immense transfer of wealth and power come about so abruptly as in the past two years. For the first time in memory our very life-styles are affected by the decisions of a handful of foreign rulers. King Faisal is definitely the Man of the Year...
...Faisal has become the most important Arab leader in modern times. He symbolizes the glorious era of the Arabs when the legendary Saladin, Haroun al-Rashid and Tariq ben Ziyad were so linked with the history of the West...
...King Faisal was your choice this year because he met your criterion as "the person who has most significantly affected-for good or ill-the course of events...