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...years. In anticipation of a renewed Iranian military offensive after the rainy season ends next month, the Iraqi regime has mounted a broad diplomatic effort to improve Baghdad's ties with the West and buttress its position in the Arab world. Last week Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz flew to Paris on a multiple mission. He met with Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the leftist Iranian guerrilla organization that seeks to overthrow Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Tehran government. Later, Aziz and Rajavi issued a joint communiqué calling for a halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Multiple Mission | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...Israeli invasion and asked that Reagan "exercise a more potent role [and] shoulder his responsibility in full, for Arab patience has run out. In Kuwait, some members of parliament called for severance of diplomatic and economic ties with the U.S., including the imposition of an oil embargo. Tarik Aziz, a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, told TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Push Comes to Shove: Israel flouts U.S. diplomacy with an attack on Beirut | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...fighting went on, Saddam Hussein tried to get new pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a peace deal could be worked out, Abdullah claimed, Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay Iran for war reparations. Said Abdullah: "Any price in terms of money is worth it if we can get rid of this pestilence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Struggle in the Desert | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...five Saudi sheiks living in the Miami area, but not by much. His sister and brother-in-law stumbled upon south Florida a couple of years ago when they were en route to Disney World. Mohammad and three brothers followed, and all stayed, according to Princess Hend Al Fassi Aziz, 25, because they liked "the climate and the action." Since then they have squandered perhaps $90 million and become a center of the greedy, glitzy action. The blizzard of cash-a petroleum byproduct, of course-has businesses, philanthropies and local governments scrambling for a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheiks Who Shake Up Florida | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, 49, and his wife Princess Hend seemed decorous, at least at first. Indeed, he is still listed as Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of Defense and is a brother of Saudi King Fahd. But the couple, like Mohammad and Tarek, tended to party all night and sleep all day, and traveled in a convoy of three limousines, two security cars and a van. They also became chummy with Alvin Malnik, a Miami attorney said to have underworld connections. It was not until last February, however, that their image problem got serious. After a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sheiks Who Shake Up Florida | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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