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Police officials said yesterday that at least 12 officers from the University and Cambridge Police and the U.S. Department followed Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani, Saudi Arabian minister of petroleum and mineral resources, during his visit yesterday. Yamani's personal security force also accompanied...
Yamani opened his stay by attending a board meeting of the Arab-American Oil Company in San Francisco. The company is "for all practical purposes a Saudi Arabian company" and the meeting was Yamani's principal reason for visiting the U.S. a government source, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday...
...Western regimes in the Third World appear vulnerable to revolt and subversion. The U.S., and to a far greater extent its allies in Western Europe and Japan, depend for their very survival as economic powers on oil supplies from one of the most flammable regions on earth-the Arabian peninsula and the Persian Gulf...
...local autonomy) and economically linked with Israel. Achieving that admittedly difficult goal would depend, of course, on getting Jordan's King Hussein to join the Egyptian-Israeli talks. Hussein so far has adamantly refused to do so. After the January summit of Islamic leaders in the Saudi Arabian city of Taif, the King once again insisted that the P.L.O. was the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people; nonetheless, he has never entirely given up his interest in the West Bank, which Jordan ruled from...
What of the future? Goodman does not indulge in hollow optimism or shrill pessimism. He is worried. If Saudi Arabia, which accounts for nearly one-third of OPEC's output, drastically cuts the flow, there will be economic depression in the West. On the brighter side: Saudi Arabian moderation may prevail in the Middle East; conservation and higher production in the West may curb the growth of petrodollars, increase confidence in currency and spur a greater sense of community. The bottom line of Paper Money is that, depending on those pesky exogenous variables, things could go either...