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...Mexicans apparently will go along. In Paris last week, Mexican officials huddled with OPEC representatives from Venezuela, Algeria and Kuwait. According to OPEC sources, the Mexicans indicated that they would follow the organization's lead on pricing and hold their production to 1.5 million bbl. a day, no higher than the average level of last year...
...advance warning, the Saudis had tossed on the bargaining table an additional demand that remained to be resolved on Monday morning. They would curb production, said Yamani, only if the African states would charge a premium price for their oil that fully reflected its higher-than-average quality. Nigeria, Algeria and Libya produce so-called sweet crude, which yields a particularly desirable mix of products after refining. Moreover, because these countries are relatively close geographically to their European customers, the cost of transporting the crude is lower. For these reasons, the OPEC members have tacitly agreed in the past that...
DIED. Georges Bidault, 83, French politician who rose to national fame during World War II as head of the clandestine National Resistance Council, but descended into ignominy and exile after leading the clandestine right-wing resistance to Charles de Gaulle's Algeria policy; of a brain hemorrhage; in Camboles-Bains, France. After serving as Premier and Foreign Minister in several postwar Cabinets, he resigned from the government in 1958, finally fled the country in 1962 after his parliamentary immunity from arrest was lifted because of his support for the terrorist Secret Army Organization. He returned six years later under...
Commented Jacques Soustelle, former Governor-General of Algeria and a 1959 cover subject: "These magazine covers are a textbook of French history of the past 60 years." TIME is proud to be celebrating those 60 years of French history with 60 years...
...were sent to a desolate camp at Oued Zarga, 60 miles from Tunis. Within a week, the Palestinian authorities had a near mutiny on their hands. Some of the inmates of the camp, which is surrounded by Tunisian police and army units, reportedly tried to escape to neighboring Algeria but were caught and brought back. Their heads were shaved, and they have since been kept separate from the other fighters. Nonetheless, as many as half of the P.L.O. fighters have somehow managed to leave Tunisia for Syria, Jordan, Iraq and other places closer to home...