OPEC siege members of OPEC were taken hostage in Vienna, Austria, where the ministers were attending a meeting at the OPEC headquarters at Dr-Karl-Lueger-Ring 10 (renamed Universitätsring in 2012). The hostage attack was orchestrated by a six-person team led by Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal (which included Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, Hans-Joachim Klein and Anis al-Naqqash). The self-named "Arm of the Arab Revolution" group called for the liberation of Palestine. Carlos planned to take over the conference by force and kidnap all eleven oil ministers in attendance and hold them for ransom, with the exception of Ahmed Zaki Yamani and Iran's Jamshid Amuzegar, who
Don Rigsby Duncan (fiddle], Carl Jackson, Rob McCoury (mandolin), Kenny Malone (percussion), and Vassar Clements. Rigsby recorded two albums with Dudley Connell (The Seldom Scene) in the Appalachian brother duet style: "Meet Me By The Moonlight" (1999) and "Another Saturday Night" (2001). In 2010, Rigsby released "Doctor’s Orders: A Tribute to Ralph Stanley". Stanley appears on the album, as do former Clinch Mountain Boys Larry Sparks, Ricky Skaggs, Charlie Sizemore, Steve Sparkman and Stanley’s lead guitarist, James Alan Shelton. In 2016, Rigsby and David Thom collaborated on the album "New Territory" which also featured Peter Rowan, Randy Kohrs, and Tim Crouch. Rock