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Prospects for agreement, however, are poor, and the North-South meeting has been postponed, probably until next spring. Thus, OPEC's leaders now will meet on schedule Wednesday in the tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar. As usual, their deliberations will probably be dominated by Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who will seek to keep the increase as low as possible, and Iran's Minister of State, Jamshid Amouzegar, who will argue for a boost of at least...
Sept. 17, 1975. We're here in New York doing preproduction. The script is in great shape. Now we've got not only spies and terrorists and plain old cops, but also oil millionaires, Saudi Arabian ambassadors and the whole U.N. General Assembly. I smoothed out the plot with Alan Trustman, who once wrote Bullitt. Cornelia will be swell in the picture...
...possibility of a trip to Saudi Arabia "provoked the decision to restrict foreign travel in the future," Thomson said, adding that there had been no discussion of possible political complications concerning travel restrictions of the Saudi Arabian government which does not permit Jews to enter the country...
However, Salel Osman, vice-consul of the Saudi Arabian Consulate in New York, said yesterday exceptions to the requirement are made in special cases, particularly in the case of journalists...
...statelessness and relative weakening of political and military strength allows, the PLO has become a much more independent group and has therefore much greater flexibility of operation. The first signs of this flexibility are hints of a more pro-American stand, accompanied by a leaning towards the Egypt-Saudi Arabian side, the pro-western wing of the Arab world. (Hussein should also be mentioned as part of the pro-western wing, but for the time being he seems to be fairly isolated in the Arab world, except for some Syrian support...