Word: yamani
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Included on the guest list were Sens. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun '29 and William J. Brennan, Gov. Michael Dukakis, Saudi Arabia's top oil man, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, and the Aga Khan '58. Members of the Corporation, the Board of Overseers, Radcliffe Trustees, several prominent faculty members, Bok's children and selected alumni were also invited...
...attention was on Prince Charles atlast night's dinner in his honor at Memorial Hall.But the real excitement may very well have been attable 17-C, where Sheik and Mrs. Ahmed Yamani,Gov. and Mrs. Michael S. Dukakis, Dr. and Mrs.Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and Mr. and Mrs.David Rockefeller '36 were conducting theirversion of a power dinner...
...spark for a settlement came, surprisingly, from Iran. On the morning of Aug. 2, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh approached Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Saudi Arabian counterpart. The two men talked for about 90 minutes in Yamani's suite, which had a sweeping view of Lake Geneva. Since OPEC members were unwilling to make long-term promises to limit their oil production, Aqazadeh reasoned, Why not try an interim measure? He suggested a temporary return to the group's 1984 quota of some 16 million...
...world demand. The group has periodically imposed quotas, but they never stuck. For most of this decade, Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest producer, kept its production far below capacity. Last year, though, it began a new strategy of boosting output and flooding the market. A price war ensued, as Yamani knew it would...
Speaking arrangements with Yamani were finalized this past week in Geneva when William Hogan, K-School professor of Political Economy, travelled to Switzerland on his way to Tokyo, especially to meet with the Saudi minister...