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After the authorities nab Bernard Mickey and throw him in jail, Leigh-Cheri sits in her room for half a year and discovers the meaning of life by staring at a pack of Camel cigarettes. She promises to marry an Arab Sheik, provided he builds her a pyramid. The Woodpecker eventually gets out of the clink, meets her in the pyramid and reiterates the dilemma of transitory love. The sheik bombs the pyramid. The princess and the frog go deaf and, maybe, learn to make love stay. They live happily ever after...
...remaining 40% of Aramco, which produces the bulk of Saudi oil, from a consortium of four American oil producers, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California. Americans will continue working for Aramco, but only in technical and managerial roles. The kingdom's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, is also reported to have told British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington that Saudi Arabia would soon reduce oil production. Although Yamani did not specify the amount of the cutback, he has previously indicated it might be from the current 9.5 million bbl. per day to 8.5 million...
...travel in aid of racketeering. In addition to Errichetti, the defendants were Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Harry Criden, all from Philadelphia. The four were accused of sharing in a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as representatives of an Arab sheik in return for help on an immigration bill. The defendants face up to 25 years in prison...
...witness of the first ABSCAM trial. The defendants are Mayor Angelo Errichetti of Camden, N.J., and three Philadelphians: Democratic Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, City Councilman Louis C. Johanson and Lawyer Howard Criden. All are accused of accepting $50,000 from FBI agents posing as representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik in return for Myers' promise to introduce an immigration bill...
...video tape of a meeting in August 1979 between Myers and Errichetti and an undercover agent who called himself "Tony Devito" at a motel near New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On the tape, Myers boasted grandly of being able to fix the sheik's immigration problems, then gave some pungent advice: "I'm gonna tell you something real simple and short. Money talks in this business, and bullshit walks." As the agent handed over an envelope bulging with $50,000 in $100 bills, he told Myers, "Spend it well." Replied Myers...