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Amid the growing complexity of East-West power games around the Horn of Africa, relations between Cairo and Tripoli remained tense last week, even though the shooting had stopped. At the urging of Arab peacemakers, in particular Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, both sides agreed to a mini-summit to settle the miniwar. There was no certainty that either Sadat or Gaddafi-who was mysteriously out of public view during the fighting -would attend. The mood was surly, particularly since losses appeared to have been high for so brief...
...which El Paso signed a contract before the Arab oil embargo, will sell in the U.S. for about $1.25 per 1,000 cu. ft., v. a top federally controlled price of $1.44 for domestic gas shipped across state lines and $2 or more for uncontrolled intrastate gas. Algerian gas bought under a postembargo agreement, however, will cost Americans $3.30 per 1,000 cu. ft. The Algerians are expected to lift the price even higher in future contracts...
...still considering the request. On top of that, independent gas producers, who fear competition from imports, loudly argue that buying from foreigners would only make the U.S. more dependent for its energy needs on unreliable sources. Asks Dallas Gasman D.K. Davis: "Do you want Chicago to become dependent on Algerian gas so that they can shut the pipe some...
Another entry in the Carter social steeplechase is Alabama-born Yolande Fox, 44. She is a former Miss America (1951), the widow of a film executive who died 13 years ago and a constant companion of Cherif Guellal, the former Algerian ambassador to the U.S. Her first effort at entertaining for the Carter circle was a dinner for Andrew Young, Carter's U.N. ambassador. Yolande owns three houses in Georgetown: the 18-room digs she occupies with Guellal; a second home, now rented by LaBelle and Bert Lance, director of Carter's Office of Management and Budget...
...Historian Walter Laqueur, the terror elite works like a multinational corporation. "An operation," he writes, "would be planned in West Germany by Palestine Arabs, executed in Israel by terrorists recruited in Japan with weapons acquired in Italy but manufactured in Russia, supplied by an Algerian diplomat, and financed with Libyan money...