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...point over disposition of water from the Euphrates River. Baghdad charges that Damascus has deliberately stored up so much water behind its new Tabqa Dam that Iraqi crops have been ruined and that 3 million Iraqis who depend on the river are short of drinking water. Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Zaki Yamani, whose negotiating skills have been honed at endless meetings of Middle East oil moguls, has been mediating between them. The split is so deep that even Yamani has had no success so far in bringing the revolutionary Arab neighbors together...
Left-wing Lebanese believe that the country should do more to assist the Palestinians, despite its limited resources and mediocre 16,000-man army. Some rightists argue that the presence of armed fedayeen is a threat. The head of the Phalange, crusty Sheik Pierre Gemayel, 70, has characterized the fedayeen as "a state within a state" that has brought Lebanon "chaos...
...Kazimi, at the royal palace in Riyadh. Outside the King's office, Kazimi was greeted by Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, 26, a nephew of the King's and one of the 3,000-odd princes of the House of Saud. While Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, briefed the King on the audience, Kazimi and Prince Faisal, apparently a former classmate of Kazimi's, waited outside. When Yamani returned to usher Kazimi inside, the prince tagged along...
Landing in the evening in Kuwait, the businessmen passed over brilliant flares of burning gas from acres of oilfields. In Dubai they toured the Persian Gulf harbor in the Sheik's dhow. The hour-long audience with Faisal (see THE WORLD) took place beneath crystal chandeliers in the royal palace in Riyadh while bodyguards poured tiny cups of bitter coffee...
...want is our daily rice and lentils," said a Dacca shopkeeper. "If we get enough at a price we can afford, we don't care what system is used to govern us." That was a widely shared feeling throughout Bangladesh last week as Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the country to independence from Pakistan in 1971, assumed sweeping presidential powers. Under a new constitutional amendment the parliamentary system was abolished and Bangladesh embarked on what Mujib grandly described as "a second revolution...