Word: yamani
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arabia is still essentially a feudal state badly in need of both industrial and agricultural development. In the past year or so, the U.S. has signed agreements to provide the Saudis with military and technical assistance, including electrification projects and agricultural development programs. Says Saudi Information Minister Muhammed Abdo Yamani: "We see signs that make us optimistic about American policy...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...