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Saudis Reject Reports of Big Deficit 

An official spokesman of the Saudi Ministry of Finance and National Economy last week refuted a forecast by Britain's National Westminster Bank that Saudi Arabia's balance of payments deficit in 1985 would be the second largest in the world after the US. The bank's forecast was based on assumed oil revenues of less than $30bn and investment income of $8bn this year, and it suggested...