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...cutting the amount of crude sold to British Petroleum from 450,000 bbl. per day to 150,000 bbl. Earlier, Kuwait had agreed to increase sales to the two largely state-owned French oil companies by 85,000 bbl. daily. Said Kuwait's Oil Minister Ali Khalifa Al Sabah after the decision: "If the oil companies don't like it, they may buy their oil elsewhere...
...Kuwait, Oil Minister Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah declared a price increase of 9.3%, retroactive to Feb. 20. He blamed the decision on what he called price profiteering by oil companies, implying that if Big Oil was somehow ripping off the public, Kuwait was going to get in on that game...
Problems of state? Not at all, as Queen Elizabeth II, on the first leg of her three-week tour of Arab Gulf states, paused to chat with the Emir of Bahrain, Sheik Isa Bin Sulman al-Khalifa...
...Black Muslim-Hanafi dispute boiled over into an appallingly grisly deed. Seven killers who were Black Muslims broke into the Washington home of Hanafi Leader Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. They brutally murdered five of Khaalis' children, his nine-day-old grandson and a devoted follower. (Black Muslim officials have denied that their organization was in any way involved.) Khaalis swore revenge...
...other oil ministers pretended to be unimpressed by Yamani's theatrics. Said Iraq's oil minister, Karim: "It is a big game that he always plays." When word came that Yamani was returning to the conference. Qatar's minister of finance and petroleum, Abdul-Aziz Bin Khalifa Al−Thani, went to the airport to accord him a proper protocol. "I am going to meet the big star," he smilingly told reporters...