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...evidence everywhere were the King's bodyguards, four swarthy, husky men in short, blue, lace-trimmed jackets, each carrying a sef (sword), khanjar (dagger) and pistol, all of which, Abdullah Balkhair explained, were merely ceremonial. They stood in sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur...
...shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there are few inner boundaries, and sheiks control not a domain but a tribe constantly on the move as their flocks wander in search of pasture. The Old Lion ruled them through the power of the sword, held their allegiance with the promise of protection and with gifts, cemented it with his prodigious sexual prowess. He used to take a sheik's daughter as wife for a night, divorce her next day with royal gifts-leaving the tribe well pleased at the honor and perhaps contributing...
...steps of a church in Spain. It passes through the forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon him. His arm weakened. A final thrust...
...American heads on their bayonets. On the second afternoon, as the bone-weary, mouth-parched prisoners waited alongside a cold, bubbling stream hoping for their first drink of water, one of the men broke ranks and buried his face in the stream. "A Japanese noncom ran up, unsheathing his sword . . . I heard a quick, ugly swish. Before I could realize what had happened, I saw the head roll away in the stream...
...years ago assigned Staff Writer Walter R. Martin to study the sect. Martin, a "research polemicist," who has already excoriated the Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists from a Funda mentalist point of view, set to work and found to his astonishment that he brought not a sword but peace...