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Show Adnan Khashoggi: Inside the Billionaires World at a sweeping lawn in front of a French-styl- e farm and restaurant. His stomach swells under his handmade brighter-than-navsuit; his reddish cheeks bulge. As he walks, his hands flop at his sides. His manner is confiding, his voice soft, his gaze intent. At 49, he has proven himself a controversial middleman, a trader, born out of centuries of haggling, bringing together East and West, pasting together deals with an adhesive that has always stuck money. He is one of the richest men in the world. 17th-centur- y Editor's Note: Its 0 billionaire's world full ot vochts, lets and lavish estates, and It stretches from Utah to Kenya, plus dozens of other countries. It's the world ot Adnan Khaihoggl. The following writer article, authored by free-lanc- e Jonet Walloch, appeared In the Sept. 16 of The Washington Post's Sunday Issue magazine and Is ottered exclusively In this area by The Salt Lake Tribune. By y d Janet Wallach Adnan Khashoggi alights from his helicopter, settles in a Lincoln limouride up a sine, and after a pathway, arrives with his entourage His luncheon guests wait on the lawn. They always wait. It is a minor display of power. Everyone waits: the television cameras, the news reporters and the still photographers. They switch on as "A.K. appears, surrounded as always by members of his family: his wife, his son, his brother, his brothers wife, his sister, his sis- ter's husband. There are 30 guests here at his pleasure. They have been flown in, first class, given hotel suites stocked with liquors and foods. They are their po and well-dress- lite conversation sprinkled with French and Arabic accents. They sip champagne served by bosomy women in low-ccostumes, and admire the scenery. In the distance, a pair of swans graces a small pond, peacocks parade on acres of clipped grass It is a setting that would qualify as spectacular anywhere in the world, but this is La Caille. a country restaurant in Salt Lake County. Khashoggi is visiting his worldwide investments, and this is one of them. s tx; A m if Vi ... ikiiii f By Bernard Gwertzman New York Times Writer ft - WASHINGTON Foreign MinisA. Gromykos meetings ter Andrei with the Reagan administration : ; s n h it h ft j y n con- cluded Saturday with an agreement J it ti h it it tu on a process follow-u- of ex- p changes between the two sides, a senior State Department official said. Associated 1,590-to- n carried 98 Lindblad Explorer passengers on a recent- - 7,000-mil- e i Press Loserphoto journey through the icy Northwest Pas-l- y sage. The historic voyage lasted 41 days. Swedish Passenger Ship Sails Frigid Northwest Passage By Eugene Moosa Associated Press Writer A Swedish liner on Saturday YOKOHAMA, Japan became the first passenger ship to complete a voyage through the Arctics Northwest Passage, the frigid site of disaster and death for many a mariner through the ages. Lindblad Explorer berthed at YoAfter the 1,590-to- n kohama's South Pier, Capt. Hasse Nilsson exulted over 7,000-mil- e a fantastic voyage that started at the port of St. Johns in Canadas Newfoundland. I feel very privileged and honored to have traced the steps of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, our great predecessor, said Nilsson, of Stockholm. The 98 mostly American and European passengers, who paid as much as $20,000 each for the trip, were crew in rubber dinghy side guided by the ships Eskimo communities. and islands to desolate trips They even took a swim in officially freezing waters, Nilsson said. In search of a direct, navigable route from Europe to the Orient, European explorers mainly from Britain, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries from the 16th century on made numerous attempts to reach Asia through the Arctic Ocean. Most voyages disintegrated in disaster caused by unpredictable Arctic pack ice and frigid weather, including the 1845 expedition led by Sir John Franklin. n British team Three bodies from the doomed 50-m- 128-ma- recently were discovered in excellent condition by Canadian researchers. The Lindblad Explorer, fitte4jtitifcjeinforced bow to withstand drifting ice, weighed anchor aFst. John's on Aug. 20 and followed the route taken by Amundsen, who in 1906 became the first man to successfully navigate the treacherous passage. The Lindblad Explorer sailed past Greenland. Baffin Island, Lancaster Sound, McClure Strait for Point Barrow, Alaska before steaming south through the Bering Straits and on to Japan. The vessel is the first passenger ship to get through the passage, according to Nilsson. In 1969, after oil was tanker discovered in northern Alaska, the Manhattan became the first commercial ship to transit the route. Sir William Edward The procession of explorers Parry, F.W. Beechey, Robert J. Le M. McClure, Frankwho failed in attempts to get lin, to name a few through over the centuries, managed to leave a lasting impression in the names of islands and straits of the area. I feel like a part of history," said passenger Caro-lyn- e Weasner, 73, of San Anselmo, Calif. When we were in the Arctic, we were the only ones around for thousands of miles. Now its civilization again, and I strangely feel at home, said Mrs. Petra Herz, 29, of Hamburg, West Germany. ings as a leader concerned about reducing world tensions. There seemed to be no substantive agreements emerging from the discussions, which covered three separate meetings involving Shultz and Reagan. The senior official, however, argued that the talks had been worthwhile and could lead to an easing in tensions in coming months if the two sides, after pondering the results of the meetings, come back with constructive replies. Rigorous The official, who took part in Gromykos two meetings with Shultz, on Wednesday and Saturday, and in Fridays White House session with Reagan, said that in the nearly nine hours of talks there was a rigorous on nearly every global and bilateral issue. Give-and-Ta- Briefing reporters on Gromyko's final session, a r meeting with Secretary of State George P. Shultz at the State two-hou- The and off the pages of major newspapers and supermarket tabloids for more than a decade. His name conjures up images of a flamboyant Saudi billionaire who was paid hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions by American arms manufacturers to sell weapons to the Saudis. Many of his arms deals have been among those questioned by the Pentagon, the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and two Senate committees. The inquiries ended with no action taken against See Page 3, Column 1 give-and-ta- $$$ Department, the official said it had been "a construe- tive, useful meeting. Saturdays talks brought to a conclusion an unusual week of foreign policy activity that marked an interlude in President Reagans campaign. At the same time, White House officials have made no secret of their goal of using the meetings with Gromyko and others this rat- , week to enhance the presidents Gromyko, himself, upon leaving No the State Department, said more to reporters when they asked him to comment. Shultz said, I had another substantive discussion, and among other things we have agreed, as the president said yesterday, that we will keep in touch and we will do so not casually but carefully through diplomatic channels. Reagan, providing his own personal evaluation of the meeting in his y By Larry Margasak Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Senate, in a victory for civil rights forces, voted 92-Saturday to crush a filibuster by conservatives against the major antibias bill before Congress this year. The action limits debate on the "Civil Rights Act of 1984 and will permit a vote this week on attaching the legislation to a vital money bill needed to keep the government solvent after the new fiscal year begins - 4 Monday. The civil rights measure has 63 coSenate sponsors in the and already has passed the House in a slightly different form. It has the backing of virtually every major civ- il rights organization in the nation. Sixty votes were needed to pass the motion, called cloture, but once that threshold was passed, a score of senators who opposed the move switched their votes in favor. debate-limitin- g Opponents of the legislation still will have one hour each to speak, and also can insist that the Senate take roll call votes on amendments. The vote was a significant accomplishment for chief sponsors Bob and Edward M. Packwood, who were able to Kennedy, persuade senators to attend a week- e. Reagan Blasted From Three Democratic Sides Presidential candidate Walter Mondale and former President Jimmy Carter greet guests during a Georgia barbecue. By Robert Furlow Associated Press Writer In new Democratic attacks against President Reagan on Saturday, Walter Mondale bemoaned a failure in arms control, Jesse Jackson asked blacks to vote Reagan out of office as an oppressor and Geraldine Ferraro accused him of ducking blame for "outrageous mistakes in the embassy bombing in East Beirut. Reagan, meanwhile, spent the day at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., and Vice President George Bush was at home in Washington. Reagan did broadcast his regular weekly radio remarks, a paid political talk in which he commented on his Friday meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. I told him, if your government wants peace, then there will be peace, Reagan said. And he pronounced the talks useful. However, Mondale, campaigning in Georgia, said, In arms control, all we have seen are photos and no progress. No Progress Whatsoever "Thus we have completed four years of this administration with no progress whatsoever, the first administration since the bomb went off to fail to make any progress, he said. Mondale said such a record, coupled with the handling of the recent V political radio address Saturday, promised that the Russians would "get a fair deal if they seek the path of negotiation and peace. In discussing the substance of the talks that were held with Gromyko, the senior official said it was very healthy that after months of refusing to discuss questions dealing with nuclear arms control after the Russians walkout from the Geneva talks, there was a good about the problems of nuclear weapons and how to control them. Discuss Showing Restraint The Reagan administration has offered to discuss showing restraint such as a moratorium on future antiif the Soviet Union satellite tests g arms control agrees to negotiations, including resumption of the stalemated nuclear issues. The Soviet side broke off the negotiations both on limiting medium-rang- e missiles and on reduction of strategic arms after NATO went ahead at the end of last year with the start of deployment of new American missiles in Europe. The Russians had said these two sets of negotiations could not resume until the United States removed the obstacles, meaning a halt to the See Page 2, Column 1 five-minu- give-and-ta- wide-rangin- Conservative Filibuster Crushed By Senate Civil Rights Forces Mondale, Jackson and Ferraro Flail Away : Adnan Khashoggi Low-KeTycoon Gromyko, Slmlllz Concluide Talks . V 1 Khashoggi has popped on Adnan 'V bombing of the American Embassy annex showed growing evidence of a failure of foreign policy and foreign policy leadership by the administration. The Democratic presidential candidate campaigned during the day at events in Georgia, with former President Jimmy Carter at his side. Carter accused Reagan of sending out a steady stream of false allegations" about the Carter-Mondal- e term that preceded his own. He added, "I had a Harry Truman sign on my desk saying the buck stops here, and I think that President Reagan lives on just the opposite philosophy: The buck stops everywhere else except at the Oval Office. Another main political focus of the day was the annual gathering in the nations capital of supporters of the Congressional Black Caucus, with a events on the series of schedule. Prayer Breakfast Jackson, who battled Mondale for the presidential nomination last summer, used one of those events, a prayer breakfast, to renew his criticism of Reagan. fund-raisin- g Chuckle Todays The advantage to living in a big city is that its so convenient to all the things you cant afford. He said black leaders must encourage confused blacks who might see no good reason to vote in the Nov. 6 election. We cannot elect an oppressor by default by confusing personality with politics, he said. You measure leadership by character. Reagan has failed the character test. Addressing another election topic the issue of he said mixing politics and religion such mixing was nothing new for blacks. We separate church from state but not religion from leadership, he said. Our religion makes us political. It obligates us to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to pursue peace and to study war no more. . . . Embassy Bombing Farther north, in Pittsburgh, Ferraro, the Democrats vice presidential nominee, joined the past two days outcry over remarks Reagan made in the aftermath of the Sept. 20 bombing that killed 14 people including two Americans at the embassy annex in East Beirut. The Reagan administration, she said, made "outrageous mistakes" in moving Americans to the building and then not installing better protective devices. "But instead of taking responsibility, Ronald Reagan is now mat ing excuses," she said. end session and to express their willingness to attach the civil rights measure to the catch-al- l money bill. As a precaution against disruptions in federal operations while the de- bate continues, the Senate passed by voice vote a stopgap measure to keep most of the government solvent through Tuesday midnight. The House would be able act quickly on the measure Monday. After losing the vote, the conservatives tried to tack on other controversial measures dealing with gun control and school busing. The moves placed the Senate into a parliamentary maze and after an afternoon of wrangling, Majority obLeader Howard Baker, served, "We are in deeper and deeper procedural trouble. The civil rights proposal aims at overriding a Supreme Court ruling last Feb. 28 that a law banning sex discrimination at colleges receiving federal aid applied only to the specific program receiving assistance, and not the entire institution. The measure would require recipients of federal money to comply with See Page 2, Column 3 debate-shortenin- g at the prayer breakfast Today's Forecat InSalt Lake City and vicinity showers. scattered clouds, creasing Highs in low 70s. Details, B-- 4 v |