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April 8, 1995
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BY CHRIS BLACKHURST

Westminster Correspondent

Jonathan Aitken, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, will come under renewed pressure on Monday when ITV's World in Action programme explores his relationships with members of the Saudi Arabian royal family.

Lawyers acting for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia are understood to have contacted the programme to try to stop it. Peter James, of the law firm Peter T James, has been in touch with the producers of the programme which centres on arms deals and the way Western companies won orders from the largest purchaser in the world.

The programme has been brought forward after the revelations in the Independent about Mr Aitken's directorship of an arms company ...

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