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Chicago Tribune, Thursday, March 27, 1975 Section 1 5 Prince tied to drugs as student in U. S. WV -jit From Tribune Wire Servkei PRINCE FAISAL Ibn Musaed Ibn Abdul Aziz was a teen-ager when he came to the United States to study. When he went home to Saudi Arabia last year, he had been involved with drugs, had lived among campus radicals, and possibly had thoughts of avenging his slain brother. In announcing that the 27-year-old prince killed Saudi Arabia's King Faisal on Tuesday, Radio Riyadh called him "mentally deranged." His father, Prince Musaed Ibn Abdul Aziz, was King Faisal's stepbrother.

The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Lebanon said the prince had once been confined to a mental institution. THE SEMIOFFICIAL Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram said his father, Prince Musaed, was once sent to prison by King Faisal after a quick trial for killing someone in Jidda, UPI Telepholo Mkvl JlllllJlLLLLDllllDIMlllll llllllHniilllfll IT ilk Mil HllMW I )J' UPI Telephoto Christina Surma, who had lived with Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed Ibn Abdul Aziz, while he was a student in the U. S. Members of Saudi Arabia's royal family carry body of slain King Faisal in Riyadh Wednesday. Saudi Arabia.

Faisal Is mentally deranged. Slain king in unmarked grave She said she considers him Al Ahram described Prince Faisal as "a nervous person with aspiration for power, worldly joys, and fame." The newspaper said mem Saudi Arabia lives by a strict Islamic code under which murderers are beheaded in Punishment Square. brilliant. bers of the royal family fre 'Faisal is with us wailing Arabs told quently complained to King "I'M COMPLETELY baffled as to what possessed him to do such a thing because I remember how shocked he was Faisal about the young Jordan, President Hafez Assad mourners fought to touch the prince's behavior, but the king dismissed them, saying, "May whenever where was an assas coffin before it was turned of Syria, President Houari sination in this country or God redeem him." Boumedienne of Algeria, Sheik around the world," she said- A Los Angeles woman who over to the Ulma, the Moslem holy men, for private burial without fanfare or a tomb said she had lived with the "It used to just horrify him." Prince Faisal came to the U. S.

in the mid-1960s to study. In 1966, while he was attend ALTHO THERE was no official word on the prince's whereabouts, Al Ahram reported Wednesday that he is under arrest and being held in the royal palace in Riyadh. Other reports said he was fatally shot by the king's bodyguards. Prof. Edward Rozek of the University of Colorado said that, if the prince was the assassin, he probably was motivated by drugs.

"As I look now in retrospect to try to trace a cause, I thir.k it must have been drugs. He stone. There was speculation that prince for five years while he was in the U.S. told the Boulder Colo. Daily Camera that he "became more radi Faisal's body was placed in Sabah Salem Babah of Kuwait, President Gaafar Ni-meiri of Sudan, President Ha-bib Boujguiba of Tunisia, Prime Minister Sadi Armak of Turkey, Premier Rashid Solh of Lebanon, and other Arab leaders.

MEANWHILE, the alleged assassin of King Faisal is being questioned by Saudi authorities pending trial, the ing San Francisco State College, his brother, Khaled, was shot to death by Saudi Arabian police during a violent cal" while he was at Berkeley, a hotbed of student activism during the 1960s. She did not shrouded in a seamless white sheet, Faisal's body lay in the mosque while princes and commoners chanted, "Allah akbar" God is great. Faisal's brother, the new King Khalid, wept as he prayed over the body. He was flanked by members of the royal family and 16 other kings, presidents, and premiers. The wailing of the crowd outside the mosque could be heard over the chants of the muezzin, the Moslem priest.

He intoi.i1: "Regard not as dead those that are killed for the sake of God. 0 ye tranquil soul, return to thy God willingly ffi ft 'MM I IMMmM A elaborate. the earth next to that of his father, King Abdel Asis Bin Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. The Wahabis do not mark graves because they believe veneration of the dead detracts from worship of Allah. Earlier, King Khalid, 62, and In 1969, while enrolled at the 1 University of Colorado in i CHRISTINE SURMA, 26, now an auctioneer, said the Boulder, the prince was ar-1 must have been hooked," saia rested and charged with con-1 Rozek, who taught the prince Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar prince had told her there was a lot of political animosity in three comparative govern said Thursday.

spiracy to sell LSD. He plead From Tribun Wirt Services RIYADH, Saudi Arabia King Faisal was buried in an unmarked grave Wednesday after thousands of mourners wailed and wept and passed along his coffin from shoulder to shoulder. "Where goes our knight? Where goes our protector against confusion and poverty?" shrieked the crowds as the coffin of the assassinated monarch was brought out of El Eid mosque. "Faisal is with us. He is not leaving us," a weeping broadcaster responded.

"You will see him in King Khalid, in Prince Fahd, in every faithful son of Islam." UNITED STATES Vice President Rockefeller flew to Saudi Arabia, which has the world's largest proven oil reserves, with a personal message from President Ford. He arrived 3 hours after the burial and was greeted at the airport at Jidda by Prince Ahmed Bin Abd al Aziz, one of the slain king's many brothers. Rockefeller, who planned to against King Faisal but that ment courses in 1969 and 1970. ed guilty and was placed on his 53-year-old brother, Crown The alleged assassin, King he did not share it. probation for one year.

"He held no ill feeling to Faisal's nephew Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed Ibn Abdul Aziz, would be tried according to the Prince Fahd, received pledges of allegiance from princes of the royal family, military commanders, Moslem reli A FREE BOTTLE cf Red or White BURGUNDY WINE gious leaders, Bedouin trival strict Islamic code of ethics that prescribes beheading as the only penalty for murder, the and join my slaves in paradise." The prayers lasted for 10 minutes. Then the body was placed in a simple wooden cof chieftains, and commoners. to couples having Cantonese or American type 1. DINNERS paper said. ward has uncle.

He knows he will be killed for this," Miss Surma told the Daily Camera. "He would say that people like him never lived to be very old. I don't know what he meant, but he did not think he would live past 30." Miss Surma later, told KNBC-TV in Los Angeles that she doesn't believe Prince IN 1971, HE received a bachelor's degree in political science and left the Boulder campus to return to the San Francisco Bay area. He enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, taking graduate courses in political science, but, according to university records, he never received a master's degree. King KhaUd continue on to Riyadh on Thursday, said he came "to convey to you and the people of Saudi Arabia our sincere condolences at the tragic death of King Faisal, and to reaffirm the deep friendship of the President and people of the United States for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia." THE SIMPLE funeral rites were prescribed by the puritani-cal Wahabi sect of Islam.

Earlier, bathed by holy men, fin and carried outside the Saudi authorities decided to try the prince after doctorf mosque from shoulder to shoulder by the waiting crowd. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was the first foreign head of state to offer his condolences. He then stood by Kh a lid's side as the king received King Hussein of reported he was sane and re sponsible for his actions, thd AN EMOTION-CHOKED announcer said crowds of report said. Ex-Chicago cleric cleared in Sydney; aided drunks brought by the Rev. John A.

D. Hall of Gloucester. He claimed that two pamphlets the Rev. Mr. Noffs wrote 10 years ago disputed the teachings of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.

SYDNEY, Australia AP-The Rev. Ted Noffs, who spent three years ministering to drunks and runaways on the streets of Chicago and 11 years doing the same in Sydney, was cleared by a church court Wednesday of charges he was "unfaithful to the doctrines of Christ." A disciplinary committee of the Methodist Church of New South Wales acquitted the 48- FRIDAY MARCH 28 EASTER CLEARANCE 13 T0 12 OFF DETAILS OF THE charges and the committee's reasons for rejecting them were not made public. The Rev. Mr. Noffs was at the Inter-City Wesley Church in Chicago from 1960 thru 1963.

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