In Riyadh, the desert capital of Saudi Arabia, nervous courtiers have become accustomed to keeping one eye out for signs of revolt inspired by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one eye on the latest dispatches from the French Riviera. There, ailing King Saud, 61, is installed in Nice's gleaming Hotel Negresco in 55 rooms on the fifth floor with his veiled wives, concubines, a passel of offspring, courtiers and maids. Last week the rumors were flying along the Côte d'Azur that the dyspeptic Saud was sick unto death.
There seemed good reason for...
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