The Economist (US), October 8th, 1994
Indications are that the Saudi regime is beginning to experience some economic and political difficulty. The royal family is finding money less plentiful, about 110 Saudi citizens have been arrested for threatening national security, and there are stories of government corruption.
NEVER underrate the survival power of the Saudi regime, insist old Saudi hands, as they peer sagely into the mists. They are right, of course. But it has become harder for the (relatively) impoverished Saudi royal family to buy its way out of trouble. Squeezed between debt, an unusually outspoken Islamic opposition ...
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