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...primarily a construction company. Much of the Mideast's oil flows through CAT-laid pipelines. From Kuwait to Algeria, CAT crews today are literally rebuilding the Arab world, dotting it with new schools and hotels, airfields and roads...
...also has a paw in Mideast Airlines, in Beirut's St. Georges and Phoenicia hotels, and in a dozen trading companies that sell everything from Land Rovers to soft drinks. In just a decade, CAT's yearly gross has soared from $5 million to $60 million and its profits from almost nothing to $1.5 million a year...
Life Sentence. Unwilling to be "just a businessman," Bustani is the confidant of most of the Mideast's rulers, and the author of two provocative books on "the Arab problem." A Maronite Christian and Western in his ways, he is both an intense Arab nationalist and an intense advocate of Arab partnership with the West. His formula for establishing such a partnership: both sides must forget the past, start over with mutual respect...
Though the business of Africa and the Mideast is now largely conducted in a bewildering variety of new national currencies, many back-country people in both areas still prefer to make their deals in a coin that their ancestors have bartered with for nearly two centuries...
...suspense novel in which a guileless Arab touring New York stumbles across a gang of Macadamia nut smugglers and is pursued across the wastes of Scarsdale by admen armed with barbecue spits, while sullen peasants riding power mowers close in menacingly. In the meantime, thriller writers still prefer the Mideast or Southern Europe for their setting. Two of the better new blood-and-Baedekers...