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
Don Rigsby music full time. Rigsby produced the album "40" by Larry Sparks, which in 2005 was awarded Recorded Event of the Year and Album of the Year by the IBMA. Rigsby sang on Alan Jackson's "The Bluegrass Album" in 2013, and a tour with Jackson included an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman on CBS. Rigsby still lives in Isonville with his daughter, and son. Don Rigsby Donald Glen Rigsby is an American mandolinist, fiddler, guitarist, vocalist, and producer in the bluegrass tradition. He is known for his solo career, and for his work with the Lonesome River Band and