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...Syrian President Hafez Assad to stop the fighting and to other countries to help avert a possible "massacre" of his followers. For weeks there had been rumors that Assad was determined to bring down Arafat before the next Arab summit conference, which is due to convene Nov. 25 in Riyadh...
...have Saudi Arabia's troubles. The Saudis still have an estimated $150 billion in monetary reserves invested abroad. Many Saudi officials, moreover, consider the slump a blessing of sorts, for it allows the country a chance to pause. Says a U.S. banker in the capital city of Riyadh: "The Saudis are not going to run out of money. But they are going to watch what they spend and begin setting priorities...
DIED. William W. Caudill, 69, architect and a founder of the Houston-based Caudill, Rowlett and Scott Group, an international architecture and construction company; of a heart attack; in Houston. The C.R.S. Group's innovative designs include the U.S. embassy complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Harvard's Roy Larsen Hall...
...postpone an announcement, scheduled for last Friday, of a drop in its oil prices. The implication was that Mexico would wait to see whether a broad agreement could be reached this week. Although the Saudis and their allies were mum, many experts believed the gulf producers had agreed in Riyadh to cut the official price to $30, too high to compete with Nigerian oil at the new price. But at week's end the British warned that they would make further reductions if OPEC sharply undercut the $30.50 North Sea price...
...largest producers in OPEC, they could send prices through the floor if they chose to pump flat out. The threat could bring Nigeria and other wayward nations into line. As Mani Said al-Oteiba, oil minister for the United Arab Emirates, declared after the two-day Riyadh meeting, "If the other OPEC nations do not accept this accord, the gulf states will have to cut the price even more...