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...protest of the snubbing. Vellucci has sent a letter to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and several Massachusetts Congressmen complaining about the poor treatment the city received from Sheik Mohammed Fassi...
...Saudi Arabian sheik who has donated sizeable gifts to several Florida cities and recently offered a Pennsylvania town &3 million to vote against President Reagen in 1984 failed to appear Thursday day at a meeting scheduled with Mayor Alfred E. Vellecci at which he was give $150,000 to the city's Boys' and girls Clubs, It was learned last night...
...letter Vellucci states that Fassi as "done me dirt," adding that the people of Cambridge thing that his excellency Dr sheik Mohammed Al-Fassi was representing king Fahd and the Saudi Arabia government...
...interview with TIME, the Prime Minister of Bahrain, Sheik Khalifa bin Sulman al Khalifa, said: "I'm all for maneuvers [such as those scheduled for Oman later this year], and I welcome full cooperation with the U.S. in the security of our area, but only on the condition that it is handled and presented properly." Translated, that means "Stay out of sight...
...they are not quite inexplicable. Horse breeding, once the sport of kings and nobles, is now the delight of international moguls and financial princes. Well-heeled foreigners, particularly the Arabs, like lavish-spending Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktun (who bought the record-breaking filly at Saratoga), have brought piles of new money into the enterprise. In addition, Thoroughbreds are tax sheltered and relatively portable collectibles whose value has appreciated not only more than inflation but well beyond most other investments. The Dow Jones index rose a bare 7% in the past 20 years. Prices at sales like Keeneland...