Equally at home in the Bedouin tents of Arabia, the chanceries of Europe and America, and at the conference tables of the United Nations, the late King Faisal ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz Al Saud, third ruling monarch of Saudi Arabia, brought his country into the twentieth century of balanced budgets, universal education, free medical care, modern communications and rapid industrialization, without sacrificing the traditions of Islam and the Arabian heartland.