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...Dhabi Nuptials...
...will have to go far to top a style of royal nuptials unusual even for fabled Arabian sheikdoms. For the wedding of his eldest son Mohammed and his bride Princess Salama, Sheik Zayed, the President of the United Arab Emirates, threw a $40 million bash in Abu Dhabi...
Houstonians may be more interested in another newly bottled product: oil. Packaged in classic Bordeaux and Burgundy bottles, the black gold selections include Abu Dhabi Premium '59 ("rich and full-bodied, extraordinarily spirited"), Ghawar Valley Saudi Arabian Light '73 ("lively, complex, rich yet lean") and, for connoisseurs of domestic oilages, Texas Heavy Crude '78 ("ready for immediate enjoyment...
...headed one of the largest construction firms in the Middle East and was reportedly a top financier of the Palestine Liberation Organization; of complications resulting from a fall; in Cannes, France. Abdel Rahman, whose Consolidated Construction Co. built more than 2,000 km of roads in Oman, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, left an estimated 75% of his $150 million estate to Palestinian and other charities...
Today the same people incarnate modern Arab lore emerging from the magic elixir of oil. The oil price boom in 1973 began barely two years after seven gulf emirates-Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah-set aside tribal quarrels to form a loose federation. The cornucopia of oil money has yielded perhaps the highest per capita income in the world for Emirates citizens (in excess of $100,000 a year) and created a cradle-to-grave welfare state. But the Emirates face the most serious population imbalance in the region: of a population...