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...conflict with Iran through either force or negotiation. Some Middle East experts wondered whether his trip to Saudi Arabia last week, an unusual move for a man who does not often venture outside his own country, was a sign of nervousness. After visiting the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Saddam went on to al Ihsa for talks with King Fahd. The two leaders were said to have discussed the gulf war and the Islamic summit conference to be held on Jan. 26 in Kuwait...
...well as its influence over potentially seditious Islamic fundamentalists. Iran warned in July that military reprisals might be directed at Saudia Arabia, Kuwait and any other country that gave Iraq money to buy arms. Yamani's dismissal ended a remarkable career. The son of a religious judge in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, Yamani graduated from Cairo University and in 1956 received a degree from Harvard Law School. In 1958 he became a government legal adviser and protege of Crown Prince (later King) Faisal, who named the 32-year-old attorney oil minister in 1962. At that time OPEC, which...
...Shiraa also said Rafsanjani's supporters claim Hashemi was responsible for smuggling weapons into Saudi Arabia aboard an Iranian airliner carrying pilgrims to Mecca earlier this year. The same sources accused Hashemi of engineering the kidnapping of Syrian Consul Iyad Mahmoud in Tehran last month...
...green-paneled, glass and steel home of the Office of Information Technology is as incongruous a place as any for the Happy Hacker to begin his search for term-paper heaven. But that's the campus mecca where papers written on computers get printed out in a high-quality, professional-looking style...
...street. Following his eviction, he was immediately moved into a subsidized apartment in Manhattan. Nor, perhaps, was that the only roof over his head. He appears to have had access to a rent-controlled apartment on Manhattan's Columbus Avenue, a thoroughfare that has become a yuppie mecca. Mauri has claimed that the apartment belongs to his estranged wife, but neighbors say he has also lived there for at least ten years...