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...fall in prices should help industrial countries reduce inflation. But for oil producers, lower prices could bring a precipitous drop in export earnings. OPEC members are so alarmed that Sadek Boussena of Algeria, the group's acting president, has been consulting with other members to consider calling an emergency meeting to deal with the glut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Cheap Crude By the Gusher | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...export of waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Planet-Saving Report Card | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...trade policy. The international group concerned with such matters calls the U.S. sugar scheme an unfair trade practice, an ironic finding given Washington's pique at other nations. As foreign policy, the sugar program is an unmitigated disaster. In the CBI nations, where sugar is the most important export commodity after coffee, more than 400,000 jobs have been lost since 1982 because of sugar protectionism, and the CBI's few positive effects have been wiped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: The Free-Trade Hypocrisy | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...same time, the suspects were arrested at Heathrow. Those charged with trying to smuggle the capacitors were Daghir; Toufic Fouad Amyuni, 37, a Lebanese engineer; and Speckman, 41, a French export executive with EUROMAC. In addition, Iraqi citizen Omar Latif was arrested and deported to Baghdad. Latif, ostensibly an official with the state-owned Iraqi Airways, was believed to be the head of Iraq's intelligence network in Britain. The next day, the U.S. district court in San Diego unsealed an indictment that charged two British-based companies and five people, among them Daghir and Speckman, with conspiracy to export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East The Big Sting | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...international response was largely muted. After the sting, British authorities considered breaking off diplomatic relations with Iraq, then chose not to, concerned that such a move might harm two British prisoners being held in Iraq. In Washington President George Bush called upon suppliers "to exercise special restraint" in the export of nuclear, chemical, biological and ballistic weapons. Iraq has had little trouble acquiring arms and component parts from countries in Europe, South America, North America and Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East The Big Sting | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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