Word: cameroon
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...endorsement by U.S. officials would lend his plan credibility. He arrived in Washington in 1980 and began courting the capital's top lawyers, bankers and politicians. His pitch: the $6 billion, privately financed pipeline would allow Saudi Arabia to transport oil through Sudan, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. The oil could then be shipped across the Atlantic to the U.S., detouring the Persian Gulf. Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, found the idea appealing. Said Hatfield last week: "I maintain the fierce conviction that an oil pipeline through Africa would substantially reduce the potential for conflict...
Discussing the outcome in the courtyard of Quincy House--the players' home for the week--the Cameroon players were even more bitter...
After the game, Cameroon team members were burning with rage over the officiating, and suggested that racism may lie at the root of the calls against them...
Referring to the play which caused the Canadian's first goal, one of Cameroon's coaches, Jean Michele Njele-Zek, said, "My players continued to play correctly up to the point of the penalty, which I thought was correct. But when the penalty happened to us, the referee closed his eyes...
...result of the game was an extension of the world's political and economic situation and the position of the Third World countries," said Eugene Ekeke. "The referee was obligated to call infractions against the Canadians after what he called against the Cameroon team." Apparently in Ekeke's eyes...