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...Rogers last week had to kiss that serenity -- and a $600,000 two-year contract -- goodbye. The wealthy client: Sheik Kamal Adham, the former director of Saudi intelligence and a key figure in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International scandal. According to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the well-connected Adham was a B.C.C.I. front man for the illegal purchase of Washington's First American Bank and B.C.C.I.'s main contact with Clark Clifford, the chairman of First American. Adham also received more than $300 million in B.C.C.I. loans, according to bank documents...
...tiny country, with a population of 500,000 and a land area only four times the size of Washington, D.C., is unabashed in its desire to foster a warm relationship with the U.S. Last week the President greeted Bahrain's emir, Sheik Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa, with a 21-gun salute at the White House in honor of his nation's role as the principal allied naval base during the gulf...
...Sheik Mohammed Mehdi Shamseddine's statements came amid intense speculation that freedom for one or two of the Western hostages was imminent. Other religious leaders with ties to the kidnappers had predicted a hostage release in a matter of days...
...Sheik Ahmed Taleb, a Shiite Muslim cleric with ties to the kidnappers, said Saturday from his home in Jibsheet, south Lebanon that a hostage, probably a Briton, would be released...
...ites after receiving a full report on its soldiers, verifiable by either videotape or international observers. The second stage would see the release of the remaining Shi'ite detainees (is the total 375, as Israel maintains, or more than 400, as others claim?), including the south Lebanon spiritual leader Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid. In exchange, Israel would retrieve its surviving soldiers and the remains of the rest. Israeli officials offered on Saturday to allow the Red Cross to visit Sheik Obeid if it is also given access to Israelis in Arab custody...