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What goes on behind the garden walls of oil-rich Arabs? Linda Blandford, an English journalist, decided to find out. Her book is no better than her superficial investigations, but they are not without a certain gossipy appeal...
...oil-rich Saudis sponsoring an experiment in solar energy? Because the sun will not only heat Terraset in winter but air-condition it in summer...
...bodies in capes and drapes, shawls, cloaks, trains, panels, hoods, furbelows and twiddlybits, the great fashion houses emerge, year after year, as masters of trompe l'oeil. Otherwise, monitoring these collections would be like sitting through Aida for the 42nd time. As Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, of the French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What Paris offered last week was manic vacillation...
...renovate his ego. Terrorism is now an upward path to social status. Third World terrorists belong to a jet set that is more likely to hide out in luxury hotels than in village hovels. When he runs short of cash, for example, Yasser Arafat simply calls Libya's oil-rich Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi...
...fought Neto's M.P.L.A. in the bloody, mammoth civil war: Holden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and FLEC, a Zaire-supported front that seeks independence from Angola for the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. Despite the continuing presence in Angola of at least 13,000 elite Cuban troops, which supplement his own Soviet-supplied army of 20,000, Neto concedes that "the defense of the country's sovereignty and security remains one of the most important preoccupations...