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Too Little and 32 Years Late
Hiro, D. | April 13, 1992 issue

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Last month's royal decrees mandating constitutional and administrative reform in Saudi Arabia represent the first chinks in the armor of monarchical autocracy and Islamic fundamentalism that have girded the kingdom since its founding sixty years ago. The decrees call for a Consultative Council of commoners nominated by the King, adherence to the rule of law and an enlarged body of princes to select a new monarch. King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz linked the reforms to "the momentous events in the recent past"— a thinly disguised reference to the seven-month-long gulf crisis and war of 1990-91.

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SAUDI Arabia -- Politics & government; CONSTITUTIONS; RULE of law; KINGS & rulers; DICTATORSHIP; SAUDI Arabia
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