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...does not look or act like one of the world's most powerful men. His eyes are gentle and thoughtful. His hands fondle prayer beads. He speaks softly. Yet because he is Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani wields greater influence over the lives of consumers in the U.S., Europe and Japan than some of their own elected officials...
Last week, after visiting European capitals, Yamani went to Washington to explain the Arab embargo and exchange views with top U.S. officials. In each meeting, he made Saudi Arabia's position clear. "We will be more than happy to relax our oil measures if there is reason," he said after a 90-minute meeting with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. His definition of being reasonable: Arab oil will flow...
...Israelis do not have to vacate all the occupied territories, Yamani said, to get Saudi oil exports to the U.S. started again; if there is a phased Israeli withdrawal, there will be a phased step-up in oil shipments...
From someone else, this might sound like political blackmail. Yamani, however, has a way of making such statements sound eminently sensible...
Underlining domestic warnings, Saudi Arabia's King Feisal was bluntly hinting as long ago as last April that unless the U.S. altered its Middle East policies, Saudi Arabia would begin to close the oil spigot. The hints were ignored, and Feisal sent his oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, to Washington to give the word directly to then Secretary of State William Rogers. When Washington yawned, Feisal himself gave the alarm in interviews with American reporters...