Word: tariki
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...American students often gain valuable international contacts. Take the University of Texas, for instance, where many of the 2,000 foreign students are studying petroleum engineering. When it sponsored an alumni conference on energy a couple of years ago, one 1947 grad came a long way back: Sheik Abdullah Tariki, a former Petroleum Minister of Saudi Arabia and a founder of OPEC...
...Abdullah Tariki is in and out of Cairo frequently, helping organize arms shipments to Saudi Arabian dissidents by air and across the long, empty border with Kuwait. Nasser has won over Saudi Ara bia's Ambassador to West Germany, who resigned a fortnight ago in protest at his country's failure to institute reforms. At least six other Saudi ambassadors are sympathetic to Nasser's cause...
Moving Faster. Construction projects that halted two years ago will get going again, though the budget is to remain in balance. Talal and Tariki are busy on a $45 million-a-year program, drawn up by the World Bank, of small basic-development projects. Says Tariki, a University of Texas-trained geologist: "We need water, roads, education and, if possible, diversification of our economy. We have a planning board now, and things move much faster." Talal and Tariki talk about a petrochemical industry to make use of the 200 million cubic feet of gas that go to waste daily...
...palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...Budget-Balancer Feisal. Recently a dozen of them showed their feelings and snubbed the King by refusing to show up at the airport to greet him when he made a ceremonial visit to Jiddah. If the reforms come too swiftly-or if spending gets out of hand-Talal and Tariki could find themselves out and the Feisal crowd back in. The dilemma, according to one Saudi, is that "Feisal 'feels that reforms will topple the throne, while Talal feels that without them the throne will topple." But both are loyal to the King, and depend on him. Says Tariki...