Word: algerias
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...some of the heads of radical Arab states, which refuse to grant Israel the right to exist, never wanted to attend the summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place...
...Saudis, who were touring Arab capitals last week drumming up support for their plan, had some opposition. The Libyans were working just as vigorously against the plan among their allies, including radical P.L.O. groups, Syria, Algeria and South Yemen, which at this point are not prepared to recognize Israel's right to exist at all. As the Fez summit approached, the future of the Saudi plan depended on two key questions: 1) Would the Libyans draw the other Arab hardline states into intractable opposition? 2) Would the P.L.O. endorse the proposal...
...force. Syrian Prime Minister Abdul-Rauf Kassem has criticized the Fahd plan as "ineffective." But Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam is known to favor it, and President Hafez Assad has yet to be convinced. Should the Syrians and the P.L.O. finally side with the Saudis, other intransigent states like Algeria would probably go along, leaving Libya the main opposition to the plan...
...crude by $2, and Saudi Arabia indicated that it will lower production immediately from 9.3 million bbl. per day to 8.5 million bbl. The only real disagreement at the session was over the various premiums that members could charge for their crude in addition to the new base price. Algeria and Libya, for example, will be permitted to demand $4 per bbl. more for their crude, while Nigeria can ask an additional...
...price picture only adds to the uncertainty. Since December of last year, international prices have ranged from Saudi Arabia's low of $32 per bbl. to Libya's and Algeria's $40 per bbl. Last week the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced that it was calling a special meeting for this week in Geneva. Out of it could come an agreement by the Saudis, who pump almost half of OPEC's total production, to raise the price of their crude by $2, to $34 per bbl., re-establishing that...