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Citibank did not trade the portfolio of stocks heavily on a day-to-day basis, which upset Sheik Salem Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, Kuwait's director of U.S. investments. "If you do not do it our way," he wrote to the bank in December, "we'll transfer the funds. There are lots of good banks who want a chance to help us." The Kuwaiti government became more disturbed with Citibank when some confidential memos and the lists of its holdings were leaked to Financial Writer Dan Dorfman. In retaliation, Kuwait last month transferred the $4 billion stock...
...total of 40,000 independent mosques, which had operated without government supervision and were often the centers of denunciations of the Sadat regime, were "nationalized," meaning that their imams (preachers) are to be replaced by "enlightened," government-sanctioned Islamic leaders. Complained one fundamentalist: "Every Muslim has his favorite sheik and his favorite mosque. How is he going to feel when he goes to pray on Friday and finds a government employee there instead...
...felicitous movie scenarists of his generation (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday, who is forced into acting as intermediary between the Ruler, the Pike and NATO intelligence, finally meets the sheik in a house above an abandoned silver mine in Austria. Though the mine is supposed to be a potential treatment center for respiratory diseases, Halliday discovers that the potentate has far more sinister intentions. What follows thereafter is a frenetic and wholly plausible chase, with enough twists and alarms...
...Time, as in Ambler's 17 other novels, it is finally not so much the plot that grips the attention, superbly handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops and spies. No one except perhaps Graham Greene knows or describes his atmosphere or terrain as meticulously as Ambler. It encompasses the topography of fear. -By Michael Demarest
...Myers of Philadelphia, has been expelled from the House. Two others resigned and three lost their seats in elections. Williams believes that his case is the strongest: tapes show that he refused a bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note in the history books," though it would not affect his pension-a generous $43,500 a year...