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Maybe it doesn't pay to live in Cambridge after all. A Saudi Arabian sheik, who previously doled out lavish cash gifts to several Florida cities and offered a Pennsylvania town $3 million to vote against President Reagan in 1984, never showed at a meeting scheduled with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last week...
...sheik was supposed to present the mayor with $150,000 for the city's Boys' and Girls' Clubs...
Refusing to take the snub lightly, Vellucci sent a letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and several Massachusetts congressmen protesting the poor treatment the city received from Sheik Mohammad Fassi...
Fassi originally contained his office about the visit while "We were busy in our City Hall trying to figure out our heating oil budget. "Vellcci states in the letter. He adds that the Sheik "called hour office time again to confirm, reconfirm and then reconfirm his visit...
Vellucci said in an interview last night that in addition to arranging a luncheon at the Faculty Club at which the sheik was to give a check to go to building a permanent clubhouse for the Boys' Club, his office secured limousines for Fassi's entourage. He said the incident was particularly embarrassing because the gift had already been announced to the club members...