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 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