Word: yamani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added hard-pressed Japan and tiny Belgium to their list of friends. That means that these countries will now receive oil "according to their actual needs," instead of only the same amounts they had purchased during the first nine months of 1973. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani added some conciliatory language. "We do not wish the nations of the world to suffer," he said. "We only intended to attract world attention to the injustice that befell the Arabs...
From someone else, this might sound like political blackmail. Yamani, however, has a way of making such statements sound eminently sensible...
...eminent religious judge, Yamani was born 43 years ago in Mecca. After receiving an L.L.D. from the University of Cairo when he was only 19, he came to the U.S. in the mid-1950s and studied comparative law at New York University and Harvard...
Back in Saudi Arabia, Yamani went into government service. In 1958 he was appointed legal adviser to the nation's Council of Ministers, and by 1962 was Minister of Oil. Deeply trusted by King Feisal, he was in constant contact with Aramco, the giant U.S. oil company...
...great advantage is that he is as much at ease in a trimly tailored Western business suit as in Arabia's traditional flowing thobe. He straddles cultures, enjoying Arabian poetry and folk dancing, but also loving classical music and oilmen's lusty jokes. Western businessmen like Yamani and respect him because he knows the oil business inside out. "If that man ever went into private consultancy, he'd be swamped," says a U.S. State Department official. "All the American oil companies would want him on retainer...