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
Robert Rigsby the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, who served alongside him on the Superior Court until 2006. Robert Rigsby Robert Ray Rigsby (born December 4, 1960) is the former corporation counsel of the District of Columbia and a current judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Rigsby was born in San Francisco and raised in Vallejo, California. His father was a cook in the United States Army, and his mother was a nurse. While in college at San Jose State University, Rigsby was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. He became a JAG