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...policy of partnership is supported by King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz, who succeeded the slain Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud in 1975, and the older men, mostly royal princes, who run many of the ministries. But the men who breathe life into the policy are a lively, hard-driving group of young technocrats whose attitudes are shaping the country. They are known as the "American Mafia," because they were educated in the U.S. The best known of the group is Yamani, 47, who studied at Harvard. Not a member of the numerous royal family (there are more than...
...Abdel Aziz Qoreishi, another Southern Cal graduate, is governor of the Saudi Monetary Agency, a position equivalent to chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board...
...Yamani's proposals though we did not accept them," said one oil minister. When the other OPEC chieftains failed to buy his reasoning, Yamani dramatically rose from the conference table and strode out of the hall. He flew to Riyadh for talks with King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz. The other oil ministers pretended to be unimpressed by Yamani's theatrics. Said Iraq's oil minister, Karim: "It is a big game that he always plays." When word came that Yamani was returning to the conference. Qatar's minister of finance and petroleum, Abdul-Aziz Bin Khalifa...
...John's Bargain Stores that attracted a couple of oil-rich Arab shoppers last week. In Seattle, spokesmen for the Boeing Company confirmed having discussions with agents of King Khalid ibn Abdul Aziz, 63, of Saudi Arabia. His Majesty, it seems, is in the market for a monster five-story-high 7475P jet that would probably cost upward of $50 million and include a stratospheric throne plus a royal hospital room wired for communication via satellite. Back in Chicago, meanwhile, emissaries of Qabus bin Said, 35, Sultan of Oman, were content merely to rent space...
...said the late Abdul Aziz Zuabi, Israel's onetime Deputy Minister of Health, in summing up the identity crisis that faces the largest minority living in the Jewish state. The one million Arabs of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank who suddenly found themselves under Israeli rule after the Six-Day War have no question about their identity; they are Palestinians. But for the Arabs living within Israel's pre-1967 borders as Israeli citizens?a community that has grown from 150,000 in 1948 to nearly half a million today?there has been a continual tug of loyalties...