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...Gaddafi, who has apparently come to the belated realization that he was isolating himself from practically everybody but Cairo and Moscow, has moved hesitantly toward renewed relations with the West. Meanwhile he has been ignoring Soviet requests to let units of their Mediterranean fleet call at any Libyan port Gaddafi may designate...
...last fall, wins a larger settlement in negotiations beginning this week or next. Libya's Deputy Premier, Major Abdel Salam Jalloud, has already served notice that the gulf agreement "does not even reach the minimum of our demands." Adopting a pattern that it has used successfully before, the Libyan government has also decreed that it will deal with the oil companies one by one. Negotiating along with Libya will be Algeria and two of the gulf states, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, which have not yet settled on a price for that part of their oil production that reaches...
After the Libyan showdown, the oil companies must agree on a new price with Venezuela and Indonesia before a worldwide pattern of oil prices can be reestablished. The Teheran agreement illuminates the new power over industrial countries that the world's producers of raw materials can exert if they act in unison. Having made his point with oil, the Shah of Iran last week was talking of forming similar groupings of nations that produce coffee, copper, tin, rubber and other commodities to bargain with consuming countries...
...Swedish match labels pictured as offensive to the Libyan government [Feb. 1], only one has six-pointed symbols similar to the Israeli star, while the other has seven-pointed symbols similar to the star of the Jordanian flag...
...them not to supply Mobil tankers with "any products of Israeli origin, or seeming to have Israeli or Jewish connections." Mobil's caution stems from the fact that the boycott has been intensified of late by the fanatically anti-Israel government of Libya. Whenever a tanker enters a Libyan port, it is searched. If there is anything aboard that has been made or grown in Israel, the owner of the ship is fined or the vessel is seized. The Libyan government recently moved to new extremes, and so did Mobil. To the taboo list, the Libyan government added...