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...purpose is to foster awareness among Arab students about the challenges that are facing them in the Western and Arab world," said IASC organizer Yasmin T. Alireza...
...wanted to create a forum in which [students] could exchange ideas," Alireza said...
...IASC was a joint effort between students at Harvard and MIT. Alireza and Succar were the principal organizers, which began last...
Politically, the implications are also great. Yamani's move is something of a victory for U.S. economic diplomacy. TIME learned that President Ford called Saudi Ambassador Ali Abdallah Alireza to the White House for a private talk. Cyrus Vance, who is Jimmy Carter's choice to be Secretary of State, met separately with the ambassador, and after the split in Qatar, Vance praised the Saudis' "courageous and statesmanlike" action. Yamani, for his part, declared, "We expect the West, especially the United States, to show appreciation for what we have done." The U.S., he said, could indicate gratitude...
From an Onassis associate in Cairo came another denial of the whole business. Ali Alireza, brother and business partner of Minister of Commerce Mohamed Abdullah and a key figure in the negotiations, said: "I can swear no such payments were made . . . Mr. Onassis made his offer directly to His Majesty's government ... So whom would he bribe, or why? Suppose he bribed two, even three men. The agreement still needed the Cabinet's unanimous consent . . . Certainly Onassis couldn't bribe men like these with a million dollars...