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Indonesian Energy Minister Subroto gamely tried to work out a compromise plan to cut production, but several delegates refused to budge. "Not one barrel," said Venezuelan Oil Minister Arturo Hernandez Grisanti, who is currently OPEC's chairman. Even as Saudi Arabia's Yamani was calling for other countries to cut back, he was at work in his Geneva hotel room lining up a large order for new oil deliveries, according to Kenneth Miller, executive editor of Petroleum Intelligence Weekly...
...Salvadorans who have been displaced by the war, the returnees had subsisted in urban slums or overcrowded refugee camps. By returning home, the people of Tenancingo have become the first refugees to resettle in a war zone without government supervision. Under a plan developed by Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas, Tenancingo has become inerme, a place without weapons, where government troops and leftist rebels are permitted to enter but are not supposed to incite hostilities. While both the military and the guerrillas have pledged to honor Rivera's plan, there is no binding agreement. "The plan is going ahead...
chief of Mexico City, from 1976 to 1982, Arturo Durazo Moreno enjoyed the good | life. Although he earned less than $1,000 a month, he acquired two palatial homes (one a mountain retreat on the edge of Mexico City), a collection of vintage automobiles, and properties in Canada and the U.S. Mexican officials charge that he built his fortune by extorting millions of dollars from police officers...
...home. The deposed ruler reportedly feels that the Reagan Administration has "thrown him to the wolves." Last week he asked the State Department to help him find a more suitable haven. Spain, his first choice, rejected him for internal political reasons. Then, late in the week, Panamanian President Eric Arturo Delvalle also refused to take the homeless leader, after his safe haven there seemed virtually guaranteed. Delvalle apparently made the decision in response to critics who said the issue was a "banana peel" that could jeopardize the stability of Panama. The unexpected move leaves the Reagan Administration in an increasingly...
...humanitarian aid, such as food, clothing and medical supplies. (The $27 million in humanitarian aid that lawmakers agreed to last year as part of a reluctant compromise expires at the end of the month.) To kick off the effort, Reagan met with three leaders of the Unified Nicaraguan Opposition, Arturo Cruz, Alfonso Robelo and Adolfo Calero. He made a tough speech to Jewish leaders gathered at the White House, and scheduled a television address for this coming Sunday. The issue was publicly cast by the President, and more strongly by his top advisers, in us-or-them terms, with...