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...their imports. This can be accomplished fairly easily by seven of the OPEC members: Iran, Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Algeria and Ecuador. They have relatively big populations and much poverty?hence much need for internal development. The huge problem is that six other, lightly populated Arab states?Saudi Arabia, Libya, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar?are collecting far more money than they can possibly spend. These six, embracing only 9.3 million people, earned $54.7 billion from oil last year. For all their industrialization and social welfare, their military and foreign aid, they can dispose of only a fraction...
...members of OPEC, in order of last year's earnings are: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria, Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Al geria, Indonesia, Qatar, Ecuador and Gabon, which is an associate member. The United Arab Emirates is a federation of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Quwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah...
...decisions on spending and development are ultimately made by Faisal. Other kings of Arab nations have disappeared from Egypt, Yemen, Iraq and most recently Libya, after a military coup there mounted by Muammar Gaddafi; and the thrones of Jordan and Morocco are shaky. But Faisal, whose name in Arabic means sword, remains for now a strong and absolute monarch. His prolific family gives him a solid base. Ibn Saud sired 36 sons, and his son King Saud produced 54 girls and 52 boys. Faisal has had eight sons and six daughters by four wives, two of whom he divorced many...
...years or so was the shooting of a pornographic movie, Thank You, Mrs. P., two summers ago. Now, however, the islanders are worried about an even more serious threat to their serenity. They are convinced that they are about to be taken over by either NATO or oil-rich Libya-and perhaps by both...
Most islanders are equally apprehensive about the intentions of Libya, which has bought 370 acres of lava rock near the island's east shore. Among the most militant of the Arabs, the Libyans boggled Pantellerian minds by announcing plans to build a 2,000-bed tourist center, complete with a heliport on the island. Some suspicious souls, both at home and on the Italian mainland, are afraid that Pantelleria may be invaded by Arab tourists carrying something more dangerous than cameras. A Social Democratic member of Parliament recently demanded that the government explain why Libya had purchased "the most...