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...Fahd clearly plans to keep the Saudi welfare state intact. He pledged last month to continue free education and medical care for all citizens and to maintain generous subsidies for such services as transportation, communications and electric power. Says Planning Minister Hisham Nazer: "The government is committed to providing every Saudi citizen with a minimum standard of living. But once he is healthy and educated, it is the individual's responsibility to improve his condition...
Several Harvard Square businessmen showed up at the meeting to oppose the plan. "It will cost the Coffee Connection a substantial amount of money to change its menus," manager Steve Aldrich said. Crimson Hisham Youssef ALFRED E. VELLUCCI
Concludes Hisham Nazer, the Minister of Planning, confidently: "It was the lack of development in Iran that was the problem, not rapid development. The Shah built a navy, but he didn't build houses. In Saudi Arabia we have built 200,000 houses. Development here concentrates on wealth filtering down...
...experts emphasize, as do Jimmy Carter and Administration spokesmen, that last week's pact was but a single step toward a comprehensive peace. Says Hisham Sharabi, a Georgetown University historian and president of the National Association of Arab Americans: "The treaty doesn't even touch the central problem of Palestinian self-determination. As a result, the Arab world is more bitter and frustrated than ever...
...catapulting their country forward into the most ambitious building program that money can buy, the Saudi rulers also set in motion a kind of social revolution whose long-range effects are not easy to foretell. "We are just about keeping pace with our five-year plan," says Planning Minister Hisham Nazer, "but we still have more money than we can spend." They are building two of the largest and most modern airports in the world for Riyadh and Jidda, to accommodate the armies of migrant workers and businessmen who are coming to seek their fortunes...