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...from a consortium of four American oil producers, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California. Americans will continue working for Aramco, but only in technical and managerial roles. The kingdom's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, is also reported to have told British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington that Saudi Arabia would soon reduce oil production. Although Yamani did not specify the amount of the cutback, he has previously indicated it might be from the current 9.5 million bbl. per day to 8.5 million bbl. per day. For about a year, the Saudis have kept their petroleum output...
...Iran, Carter seemed willing to bow to European pleas for restraint; even Thatcher's Foreign Minister, Lord Carrington, has been telling him that economic sanctions will do nothing to free the hostages and may help push Tehran into the Soviet orbit. But there was a chance that Carter might still call for a general condemnation by the summit participants of terrorist acts...
...Western diplomats greeted this array of Soviet proposals with considerable skepticism. Muskie and his British, French and West German counterparts discussed the new Soviet campaign at a breakfast meeting in Vienna. Muskie called the Afghanistan plan a "cosmetic and not a meaningful proposal." But British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who has long been pushing his own ideas for the neutralization of Afghanistan, thought the Soviet proposal should at least be explored. Said he: "We should see if we can build on it." Carrington observed, however, that the Soviet plan would simply ratify the conquest of Afghanistan and did not even...
...less he said on an issue the better, Muskie is talkative to the point of garrulity. Only once did his diplomatic presence fail him totally. During a lengthy speech on Austrian history at the festivities in Vienna, Muskie fell asleep in his very prominent front-row seat. Lord Carrington tried to wake him with a jab of his elbow, but finally gave up. Not until applause rang out did the Secretary of State's head snap up and his body straighten. Muskie did not seem particularly embarrassed. In his first diplomatic venture, he had demonstrated that when necessary...
...Ministers listened politely to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie's argument that they should do nothing that might interfere with the Camp David peace process. As a group the Western Europeans are not prepared to remain inactive until after the U.S. elections. Some, including British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, favor an immediate thrust toward a U.N. resolution recognizing the right of Palestinians to a homeland in return for acceptance by the Palestine Liberation Organization and all the Arab states of Israel's right to exist within secure frontiers. Says a ranking British diplomat: "I don't think...