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Companies have also withdrawn ads that might be deemed insensitive or inappropriate. RJR Nabisco dropped a print ad claiming that Chips Ahoy cookies are "richer than an OPEC nation." And NYNEX stopped airing a TV spot of a Marine Corps drill team dancing to rock-'n'-roll music...
Control of Kuwait and the subsequent intimidation of the other oil-bearing Arab nations gives Saddam Hussein virtual hegemony over OPEC. Control of Saudi Arabia would give Saddam Hussein one-half of the world's oil reserves and would elevate Iraq to superpower status...
Pegged a comer early on, Khalifa worked for the Finance Ministry between graduate studies in London and Beirut, often jetting home weekly for meetings. Before he was 30, Khalifa was representing Kuwait at important OPEC meetings. "I remember once when I went to Baghdad to explain our views on oil prices," says Khalifa. "After I finished my presentation, I was called to another building to see Saddam. Before I could go through it all again, Saddam said, 'Khalifa, your explanation is not valid.' There had been no time for anyone at the earlier meeting to have briefed him, but Saddam...
...December 1975 you and your fellow OPEC ministers were taken hostage in Vienna by Carlos, the international terrorist. Two people were killed before you were set free. As a victim of terrorism, how do you evaluate the phenomenon and its possible role in the gulf crisis...
...more than 20 years you were OPEC's chief strategist. You introduced the world to an oil embargo, to gas lines and stagflation. How do you view OPEC today, and what are the organization's prospects...