Word: ecuador
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jidda, but the mood of the participants was far from relaxed. Representatives from nine of the 13 feuding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries got together informally last week to debate what to do about falling oil prices. Several members of the group, including Nigeria and Ecuador, have been offering under-the-table discounts and exceeding their OPEC-decreed production quotas. As a result, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd directed Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Oil Minister, to deliver an ultimatum to the rest of OPEC. The King's blunt message: Saudi Arabia, which has been holding...
...gave away), a Steuben glass elephant and a leather flight jacket from Navy Secretary John Lehman, presented on the 40th anniversary of a bombing raid in which Bush was shot down at sea near Iwo Jima. In the self-improvement category, Bush received a 29-volume history of Ecuador (in Spanish), presented to him by President Leon Febres Cordero, while Reagan presumably had more fun with his gift of six movies on videocassette...
...only is the coca business growing but it is spreading into more and more countries. The most significant new entry, said the State Department, is ) Ecuador. Last year that country registered no significant production; in 1985, according to the report, Ecuador may be harvesting as much as 15,000 tons of the leaf, which would make it the world's third-largest producer...
...Colombians have taken care of 80% of the rest of the business, refining the paste into pure cocaine, then smuggling it into the U.S. As some of the Colombian drug dons have been forced out of their homeland, however, and as coca plants have begun to shoot up in Ecuador and Brazil, refineries have been springing up in Panama, Venezuela, Argentina and even Miami...
...complex of giant metalworks and mines in Ciudad Guayana, 300,000 people, many of them workers, greeted John Paul warmly when he said, "How long will the men of the Third World have to support unjustly the primacy of economic processes over inviolable human rights?" In Quito, Ecuador, he called for the "gradual disappearance of the intolerable abyss" between rich and poor, and appealed for land reform and medical and old-age protection for workers. At mountainous Latacunga, Ecuador, he met 250,000 members of deprived indigenous tribes, who greeted him with painted faces amid a din of pipes...