Word: khalid
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...point out to them that this is a main topic of conversation in the country, as indeed it is." Since corruption causes social unrest, Akins considers this so important that he believed the warning should be delivered by President Carter "or an emissary of the President" to King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahd or another member of the Saudi royal family. He conceded that such a warning would be unwelcome to the Saudis, but thinks that they might grudgingly take it to heart. Indeed, Akins cites a fascinating historical footnote to buttress his point: "There are many Saudis who believe...
...lives of its people. Its members are married into the families of commoners all over the country. They take their places in the chain of command below nonroyal superiors in the civil service. Saudi rulers take their "desert democracy" seriously: even the lowliest citizen can approach King Khalid or Crown Prince Fahd with a complaint at their daily majlis (council...
...Iraq, which got the Shah to stop Iranian support for a rebellion of its Kurdish separatists in 1975, feared the revival of ethnic and tribal tensions in the region. Fearful that a successful move to topple the Shah would unsettle other monarchies in the area, Saudi Arabia's King Khalid called on Arab nations to give the Shah all possible support...
...predictable. More worrisome to the Egyptian President was the fact that his moderate allies, particularly the Saudi Arabian royal family, had so far said little or nothing in his favor. Sadat last week sent his closest confidant, Deputy Prime Minister Hassan Tuhamy, to Geneva to call on King Khalid; the Saudi monarch was resting there on a flight from Riyadh to Cleveland, where he was to undergo heart surgery. Tuhamy reported back to Cairo with the ambiguous message that Khalid was "satisfied with our clarifications...
...moderates, under the leadership of Hussein and Khalid, concluded that the Israelis had made no real concessions. They noted that the Camp David agreement ignored such Palestinian questions as the establishment of a homeland for refugees, as well as the P.L.O.'s claims to being the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians, as agreed by the Arab states at the Rabat summit of 1974. Like many other Arabs, Khalid was particularly angry that the whole question of Jerusalem had been skirted at Camp David; he was almost livid when he heard that Begin was boasting that Jerusalem would remain...