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tary of State George Shultz stayed during his meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in January, is a regular setting for OPEC meetings. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani maintains a pied-a-terre there. Manager Herbert Schotte, who transformed the 18th-floor restaurant into a four-room, $1,430-a- night royal suite, complete with Chinese dining room furniture, now describes it as "all ready to receive President Reagan if they ever decide on a summit here...
...Stone is the world's finest fundraiser. He is, without doubt, the best there is, When you talk about the sheik of somewhere who might have an interest [in giving money to Harvard], his eyes light up and he's off taking the next plane. He's indefatigable; he has absolutely no hesitation to say to people. 'I'm sorry--that's not enough...
...from behind the pharmacist's counter after a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling made it legal to advertise and display them. Today about the only difficult part of buying them is choosing from some 50 brands of varying colors and textures. Such old established types as Trojans and Sheik have been joined by slickly packaged ones with names like LifeStyles Stimula...
...seat council were needed for a quorum. To cobble the necessary numbers, Arafat aides persuaded the deputy speaker to appoint several dozen loyalists temporarily to vacant seats. On the second day the delegates voted to dismiss Khaled Fahoum, the council speaker and an Assad ally, and replace him with Sheik Abdul Hamid al Sa'eh of Jordan...
...past four weeks, Yussuf, known as Jenaza-atabi (Cleaner of the dead), has washed 400 bodies, and, he says, "the numbers keep going up." After he has finished his sad task, Yussuf lifts up the wasted corpse and lays it on a bed of fresh eucalyptus leaves. Then Sheik Ali Hassan says last rites and prays for the departed soul...