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...issue was the fate of Pennsylvania Congressman Michael ("Ozzie") Myers, 37, who had been captured on FBI video tape accepting $50,000 from an agent posing as the representative of a fictitious Arab sheik. Myers was heard promising hi return to sponsor special legislation that would enable the sheik to settle in the U.S. The tapes had been used by the Justice Department to convict Myers in August of bribery in the first of its series of ABSCAM prosecutions involving six Congressmen.* Said Myers at the time of his conviction: "The jury was confused. I may be guilty of being...
...deny taking the money. Said he: "I owe this House an apology for my action." But he insisted that accepting the money was "strictly playacting" because he never intended to do anything in return. He complained: "I was set up from the word go." In one meeting with the sheik's intermediary, Myers said, "I was intoxicated. I was drinking FBI bourbon." Myers, a former longshoreman, contended that he was not used to hard liquor. Turning bitter, he charged that "I was not given a fair trial" by the House, and accused the members of "lynching" him. Protesting that...
...member OPEC cartel was highly unusual. The Austrian capital is OPEC's administrative headquarters, but no meeting of oil ministers had been held there since December 1975, when pro-Palestinian terrorists kidnaped some of the delegates and held them hostage. Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the principal target of the 1975 raid, was taking no chances on a repeat performance. First he sent his private plane to Vienna's Schwechat Airport, and then let rumors circulate that he would arrive on Monday. In fact, he showed up in another plane on Sunday night...
Kuwait is politically and economically the most advanced of the gulf states. It became a constitutional monarchy after it gained its independence from Britain in 1961. In 1976, the 50-member National Assembly was suspended, but last month the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Saad al Salah, announced that the assembly would be restored in February, after general elections. The move to bring back parliamentary life is a clear bid to contain rising discontent...
...financial center of the gulf. More than 120 banks have opened offices in Bahrain with an eye on the ballooning revenues of the oil producers. But some 70% of the population (250,000) is under 20 years of age, and there have been rumblings against the absolute rule of Sheik Isa bin Sulman al Khalifa, who has decided to reopen the National Assembly...