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Word: yamani (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various papers found in Carlos' hideouts, police discovered other as yet unhatched plots: a scheme to block the Suez Canal by dynamiting a ship, the kidnap or murder of the Israeli Ambassador to France and the possible assassination of Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani-one of the hostages seized at OPEC headquarters last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Man Known as 'Carlos' | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...owns 60% of Aramco, the Persian Gulf region's only integrated oil company, and is negotiating to buy out the remaining 40%. It once expected to complete the takeover by the end of 1974, but talks have been stalled. Last week, however, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani and officials of Aramco's four American owners slipped quietly into London for secret negotiations that are said to have reached a decisive stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Buying Out the Wells | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

...boost finally decided will raise further an already greatly inflated price. Still, the moderate size of the increase represents a huge victory for OPEC'S price doves, led in Vienna by Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani. He was joined, surprisingly, by the delegation from Algeria, previously a hard-liner on oil prices. On the hawk side, a bloc including Libya and Iraq lined up behind Iran's Interior Minister Jamshid Amuzegar to demand initially a boost of 20% or more. Personally, no love is lost between Amuzegar and Yamani, and the arguments became sulfurous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: OPEC'S Price Doves Win a Big One | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: An End to Isolation | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...conference closed, delegates promised to keep in touch. But the outlook for a full-dress global meeting-or any sort of oil amity-is dim. At week's end while visiting Washington, Saudia Arabia's petroleum minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, warned Americans that in the event of a new war in the Middle East, or even some vaguely defined "situation like war," the Arabs would not hesitate to impose another oil embargo on the U.S. and to extend it to Japan and Western Europe if they dared to share their supplies with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Off to a Bad Start | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

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