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...fastest growing banks in Britain, BCCI has assets of more than $2 billion, much of it from Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The bank was founded in 1972 by innovative, hard-driving Agha Hasan Abedi, who left his native Pakistan five years ago, when the government nationalized banking. It was Abedi who got Lance together with Ghaith...
Elsewhere as well, terrorist violence continued. At Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq-based Palestinian gunmen accidentally killed the local Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Seif Bin Ghobash. Their presumed target: Syria's visiting Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam. In a remote region of northwestern Africa, guerrillas of the Polisario front, which is seeking independence for the former province of Spanish Sahara, kidnaped two French nationals in Mauritania, bringing to 13 the number of French hostages they are believed to be holding somewhere in Algeria. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Paris, French Defense Minister Yvon...
...refused to accept further aid. The Arab world has rewarded their defiance by "adopting" West Bank municipalities. Hebron has been taken under the wing of Saudi Arabia's holy city of Medina, which is underwriting a $15 million gift. Mayor Freij of Bethlehem, which was adopted by Abu Dhabi, returned last month from a visit to that oil-rich Persian Gulf sheikdom with pledges of $600,000 now and $10 million later to develop his town's tourist business...
...Saudi prince bought a $30,000 Rolls-Royce Corniche to tool around England with, and after two months gave it to his British chauffeur. Another likes to play with 16 hooded falcons, which go for $3,000 a throw. Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi, President of the United Arab Emirates, has "a palace or two" in Pakistan, where he hunts for two months every year, and London digs with four-figure faucets designed by Godfrey Bonsack of May fair. Then there is the ruler of Dubai, who likes to hoist up his skirts-all the way-and then see which...
...program appears to have millions of listeners in many Arab countries; Basri says taxi drivers from Jordan to Abu Dhabi are implored by their passengers to tune in, and Arab men regularly gather round radios in coffee houses in such places as Syria, Egypt and Kuwait. Even though there are no postal links between Israel and Arab nations, Doctor has received some 15,000 letters in the past five years; they are either brought into the Israeli-occupied West Bank by Arab visitors or mailed through neutral third countries. In a typical note, a Jordanian named Kasim Abu Abas complained...