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...scratches the surface of life here, neither do Fellini's large doses of insanity. Uncle Teo climbs a tree and refuses to come down until ordered to do so by a midget nun who will have none of his nonsense. A peddler claims that one night a diminutive arab sheik checked into the grand hotel with his harem and invited him up for a tiring evening. Even the priests are allowed to join Fellini's beatific vision. Foolish as the churchmen are, Aurelio's termagant wife turns out to be the genuine image of sainthood...
...Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's urbane Petroleum Minister, often professes a desire for the price of oil to come down. Last week he said that his government had indeed decided to lower the price by 40? per bbl., in a move designed to "take from the oil companies and give to the consumer." However enticing that Robin Hoodish remark might seem to suffering consumers, the consequences promise to be different from what they would expect. The cost of oil to the major companies -and to their customers-stands to rise about...
...Sheik, with Rudolph Valentino, and Mark of Zorro, with Douglas Fairbanks, Friday and Saturday...
...periodic conferences of the cartel's oil ministers, the real power is wielded by five members of this new generation. The two most important are a pair of rivals: Saudi Arabia's Harvard-educated Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, 44, who publicly argues for slightly lower prices, and Iran's Cornell-educated Jamshid Amuzegar, 50, who argues for even higher prices. The other three are Kuwait's Abdel Rahman Atiqi, 44, Algeria's Belaid Abdessalam, 43, and Iraq's Saadun Hammadi, 44. Last year Hammadi excused himself for arriving late at an OPEC conference: "Sorry...
...price drop would lighten the burden on the oil-importing nations, which this year face the prospect of spending $ 100 billion for foreign petroleum, a fivefold jump since 1972. But as Saudi Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani stressed, compassion had little to do with the Saudi drive to lower prices. The Saudis, he said, want to avoid a "worldwide recession because that will hurt us," and to prevent rising unemployment and inflation from strengthening "the leftists in the major industrial nations." Moreover, Yamani warned, economic weaknesses in the West could shift the balance of power in favor...