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Clinton, in fact, is earning a reputation as Closer in Chief. If George Bush was famous for getting out the Filofax and phoning world leaders in pursuit of diplomatic goals, it was Bill Clinton who picked up the phone last summer and talked King Fahd of Saudi Arabia into buying $6 billion worth of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas civilian aircraft, and then got the Export-Import Bank to sweeten the deal so that European rival Airbus could not steal it away. Last May the President helped AT&T close a $4 billion deal for Saudi telecommunications modernization. He intervened again...
Such notions stirred not only predictable opposition from the Vatican but also an uproar in the Islamic world, where abortion is generally forbidden. Belatedly, conference supporters tried to fend off a Muslim boycott. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called his old friend King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was meeting with the Council of Ulama, his nation's highest body of religious authorities. But Mubarak's effort was futile. On the following day, the council condemned the Cairo conference as a "ferocious assault on Islamic society" and forbade Muslims from attending. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq then joined Saudi Arabia in announcing...
...South hope that their 14 million people would no longer be dependent on the largesse of their wealthy neighbors. Until the Gulf War, Yemen relied on money sent home by millions of Yemenis in the oil sheikdoms of the gulf. But Saleh's support of Iraq so infuriated King Fahd that he evicted nearly 1 million Yemeni workers from Saudi Arabia, severely disrupting the country's fragile economy...
Notable gifts from foreign governments included: a $5 million donation from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to the Law School for Islamic legal studies, $3.5 million from an organization connected with the South Korean government to establish a chair in Korean literature and a $20 million gift from a Swiss countess to the School of Public Health...
...nineteenth-century photographs of the Near East in 1970 has led, slowly and steadily, to a distortion of the primary tasks and goals of the Museum. The collection of old photographs proved a marvelous source of publicity and a lure for important gifts culminating in the gift of king Fahd of Saudi Arabia which funded the staff of the Museum for some three years. The staff of the Museum has traveled worldwide to add to the collection. The king Fahd Archive has become the primary source of the Museum's deficit, as well as monopolizing the time of most...