OPEC measures to strengthen cooperation between these countries... [The OPEC Special Fund's] resources are additional to those already made available by OPEC states through a number of bilateral and multilateral channels." The Fund became an official international development agency in May 1980 and was renamed the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), with Permanent Observer status at the United Nations. On 21 December 1975, Saudi Arabia's Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Iran's Jamshid Amuzegar, and the other OPEC oil ministers were taken hostage at their semi-annual conference in Vienna, Austria. The attack, which killed three non-ministers, was orchestrated by a six-person team led
Anna Blackburne-Rigsby Blackburne, is a former chair of the New York City Housing Authority (1990-1992) and judge on the New York Supreme Court. She is a member of Shiloh Baptist Church and Alpha Kappa Alpha. Anna Blackburne-Rigsby Anna Elizabeth Blackburne-Rigsby (born May 6, 1961) is the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest appellate court for the District of Columbia. Born in Washington, D.C., Blackburne-Rigsby graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York, in 1979. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Duke University in 1983 and a law degree from the Howard University