Word: yamani
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...often inimical regimes as Marxist South Yemen and Somalia, Algeria and Morocco, the Christian Lebanese and the P.L.O. The Saudis hope eventually to be the effective mediator in healing the deep rift Sadat's trip has caused in the Arab world. Said Saudi Information Minister Muhammed Abdo Yamani last week: "We are trying to cool everyone down; Sadat's trip was a gesture made to ease Israel's enmity towards us, and it should not create enmity among the Arabs...
...anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...
...proven reserves (110 billion bbl.) indicate. Last year Saudi Arabia passed the U.S. to become the world's second largest oil producer, and this year it may overtake the Soviet Union to become No. 1. Even so, as the country's suave Oil Minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, "In the past year we discovered more oil than we produced. In the future, we will double our reserves." At present the country is producing about 9 million bbl. a day, but Frank Jungers, chairman of Aramco, the once American-owned consortium, says...
...many of the ministries. But the men who breathe life into the policy are a lively, hard-driving group of young technocrats whose attitudes are shaping the country. They are known as the "American Mafia," because they were educated in the U.S. The best known of the group is Yamani, 47, who studied at Harvard. Not a member of the numerous royal family (there are more than 3,000 princes), Yamani is a superb technocrat who combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the world oil industry and markets with political insight and dramatic flair...
...Prince Saud, 36, a son of the late King Faisal and a 1965 economics graduate of Princeton, is now Foreign Minister. Tall and spare, he bears a striking resemblance to his father. The prince worked his way up in the Ministry of Petroleum, where he became Yamani's deputy before switching over in 1975 to foreign affairs...