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...powerful visitors from the world of oil are due at the White House this week: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd and his Harvard-educated Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. The two Saudis may be able to help answer a multibillion-barrel question that has been troubling Western countries for months: Will the price of oil go up again, further threatening the still fragile recovery from recession, or will fuel costs level off for a while...
...also lies at the heart of Arab protests. Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud of Al Azhar University in Cairo, has said: "The Koran is revelation, and the life of the Prophet is a divine commentary on that revelation. The idea of them being portrayed by others is particularly offensive." American viewers may find the theological objections of the faithful difficult to fathom. But they will have to accord them high marks as movie critics...
...Cocky Sheik. The instigator of the rupture was Saudi Arabia, whose sands and offshore waters contain by far the world's largest proven oil reserves. Eleven of OPEC's 13 members* voted to raise prices another 10.4% on Jan. 1 and yet a further 5% next July 1. But the Saudis, backed by the United Arab Emirates, announced that they would post only a 5% increase for the whole year. Moreover, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani declared that Saudi Arabia would lift its self-imposed production limit of 8.5 million bbl. a day and pump...
...capital of Saudi Arabia, six Arab leaders who are most deeply concerned with the war met at the invitation-or command, considering the weight of his oil subsidies to other Arab nations-of the Saudis' King Khalid. At the end of the two-day summit, the six-Khalid, Sheik Sabah as Salim as-Sabah of Kuwait, the Presidents of Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, and Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat-had hammered out an agreement that will strengthen Syria's hand as a peacemaker in Lebanon and drastically reduce the fighting power of the hapless Palestinians. Leaders on both sides...
James Kassouf is perpetually harassed these days. He is manager of the Beirut Restaurant in London's chic Knightsbridge, and this summer his phone is forever ringing with the news that some Kuwaiti sheik or Saudi princess has just left Harrods and was last seen heading for the restaurant for coffee and mouhallabiya. Kassouf and his staff are caught smack in the middle of an Arab invasion that makes the drought-dry London streets look almost like Cairo...