Posted on 03/08/05
A simple burial fit for a king
RIYADH -- With hymns and official platitudes but scarce public grief, Saudi Arabia buried the monarch who ruled over this oil-rich desert kingdom for most of the past quarter-century as the West looked for signs about how the House of Saud will function after the other octogenarians at its head pass on.
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