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...chief executive of one of the world's wealthiest countries, Fahd has in recent years become something of a workaholic, although he still keeps palatial mansions in Riyadh, London, Marbella, Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz...
...factor in their new calculations: medical services account for 75% of all noncash benefits. While important to the poor, such services do not help lift them above the poverty line; indeed, inclusion of medical benefits in the formula makes it seem that those in the worst health are the wealthiest. Yet even if Medicaid and Medicare were excluded, the number of those defined as poor would drop 16% if the market value of their housing and food benefits were considered as income...
...relentlessly higher. Now that demand for petroleum is slumping on markets everywhere, however, the price of crude has dropped from $40 per bbl. to $28 per bbl. on the unregulated spot market. As a result, the economic outlook for the 90 million inhabitants of Nigeria, black Africa's wealthiest and most populous nation, has suddenly turned bleak...
...village is like the tale behind the three bullet holes in the wooden door-terrifying, mysterious, obscured by fear. When the shooting began, eight members of the Ramón Portillo family had been squatting as refugees in the shuttered mansion once occupied by the village's wealthiest man, who owned all the cactus fields and a coffee finca (plantation) that stretched as far, it is said, as the volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo was killed instantly...
DIED. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 77, redoubtable financier, distinguished diplomat, enterprising publisher and the epitome of a U.S. patrician; of congestive heart failure; in Manhasset, N.Y. The Groton-and Yale-educated scion of one of America's wealthiest and most distinguished families. Whitney used his entrepreneurial skills in a grand array of profitable ventures. In the 1930s he astutely backed Gone With the Wind and the long-running Broadway hit Life with Father. He also made early investments in Minute Maid orange juice, Pan American World Airways and several radio and TV stations. A moderate Republican, he was named...