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After selling some of his bank investments to a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur and acting as a consultant in finding investment opportunities for oil-rich Middle East millionaires, Lance has been able to maintain much of the high life-style that his edifice of credit once supported. His lawyers might argue that if Lance did break some banking rules, he did so without either fraud or malice, and that little or no actual damage was done to anyone...
...biggest beneficiaries of all is the Arabian American Oil Co., the Delaware corporation that is jointly owned by Exxon, Texaco, Mobil and SoCal, and pumps the oil that flows from Saudi Ara bia. Last year the company earned profits of more than $580 million, but it paid no U.S. income taxes at all on its Saudi bonanza. In fact, it has paid no such taxes since...
...source, OPEC oil is cheaper than dirt. The cost of drilling, pumping and moving it from the Saudi Arabian deserts to Persian Gulf ports, for example, is about 30? per bbl. That is less than 1? per gal, since there are 42 gal. in one barrel. But by the time the crude is shipped, refined and sold as gasoline to U.S. motorists, the price rises more than...
...Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even an Air Force radar station. In addition, Kansas oil wells use solar electricity to inhibit the rusting of metal; a remote Arizona Indian reservation gets its power from cells, and even the Saudi Arabian government plans to line its Jidda-Riyadh highway with 400 solar-powered emergency call boxes...
Anne Montgomery also gives a fine performance as Hesione Hushabye, Shotover's deceitful and conniving daughter whose romantic delusion compels her to dress her suave husband, Hector, (Kevin Fitzpatrick) in an Arabian robe and to keep him around as a housepet. But Hector surprises the audience with his strength of character. In the final act, he displays both heroism and an astute self-consciousness of the indolence and uselessness plaguing his society. Fitzpatrick's smooth acting makes this transition quite believable...