Word: khashoggi
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...Khashoggi lives in two cultures. His identity is split between East and West, between the simple white thobe he wears with fellow Arabs and the handmade cashmere jackets he wears with Westerners, between the austere ethos of Mecca and the hedonism of Marbella. "When I am among you," he says, as if addressing all of the West, "I do as you do so well that practically I am one of you. But when I am in Saudi Arabia, I am a real Saudi Arabian. I obey and preserve the customs and traditions that give Saudi Arabia its identity and moral...
...attempt to bridge East and West, Khashoggi does make distinctions. His image in the West as the ultimate voluptuary both pleases and annoys him. "People in the West believe they have a higher morality than we do. But in fact we have a higher inner morality. All of us do naughty things from time to time. But when it comes to the really naughty things, we think twice...
America, however, is still the home of his greatest ambitions. "My dream is to take over an important American company and use it as a base of my operations," he says as he sits in his Monte Carlo apartment. Khashoggi wants to leave his mark on the world the way he stamps AK on the cufflinks he gives employees for Christmas. But like such ancient figures as Midas and Croesus, he may end up remembered as something more ephemeral, a man known for the way he accumulated and spent his phenomenal fortune...
...wisecracking American-born British subject operating out of Alexandria, Va., who is unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth of U.S. weapons left behind when America pulled out of Viet Nam. The most prominent of all, of course, is Adnan Khashoggi, the sybaritic Saudi Arabian whose jet planes, opulent yacht, lavish parties and glamorous companions seem intended to promote his image as the world's richest...
...Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar have emerged as prominent back-channel figures in the series of hush-hush shipments of American-made weapons to Iran that has flowered into the U.S. scandal of the decade. Of all the dubious aspects of that affair, one of the most unsavory is that U.S. national policy became entangled with the maneuvers of private arms dealers. At best, President Reagan and some of his aides, prominently including Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, showed atrocious judgment by plunging into a devious policy without professional diplomatic guidance. At worst, the White House has laid itself open to the nasty...