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...That would be about the same amount that members pumped during 1982, but it would be higher than the 17.5 million-bbl. ceiling that OPEC set for itself last March. Said a U.S. oil-company executive who observed the meeting: "Prices now will probably continue to drift down slowly, just as they had been doing...
...Reagan: "I have to prepare a script. Otherwise he will get me off the subject and turn what I have to say to mush. I have about six or seven minutes, and then he guides the conversation." Says Meese: "He is such an entertaining person that the conversation may drift...
...tendency by hard-pressed governments to erect trade barriers in attempts to safeguard their ailing industries at the expense of those of other countries. So serious is the problem that former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford issued a rare joint statement calling for a halt in "the drift toward economic anarchy." In his weekly radio address, President Reagan sounded a similar warning. Said he: "When governments get too involved in [hampering] trade, economic costs increase and disputes multiply. Peace is threatened...
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...victory last week of Felipe González, Spain's moderate Socialist leader, was not seen in European capitals as evidence of any continent-wide drift to the left. In the past five years, socialist governments have lost power in Great Britain, Luxembourg, Belgium and Norway, and this year alone, in West Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark. Rather, the election of the first Socialist Prime Minister in Spain since 1936 appeared to be part of a trend confined to Southern Europe, where voters have grown disillusioned with decades of ineffective center-right governments. France's President Fran...