Causes more diplomatic grief
Saudi Arabian displeasure over a British-American television production, Death of a Princess, continued to stir up diplomatic storms last week. The "dramatized documentary," which re-enacts the execution of a Saudi princess and her lover in 1977 for adultery, had already aroused a howl of Saudi protest three weeks ago when it was first shown over Britain's independent television network. But when the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation showed another documentary on Saudi Arabia that, like the Princess film, was highly uncomplimentary to Saudi royal life, Riyadh's wrath boiled over.
Last week the Saudis ordered British Ambassador James Craig...
