Word: nigerias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to work-until spring, when Carter wings off again, this time to Venezuela. Brazil and Nigeria for Part II of this serialized odyssey...
Nonetheless, prior to last week's meeting the 13 OPEC countries were badly split over the level of next year's price. Libya, Algeria and Iraq demanded increases of up to 23%. Libya muttered about raising prices unilaterally or walking out of the meeting. Nigeria, Indonesia and Venezuela, badly in need of more oil income to pay for instant industrialization projects, were making weak requests for an increase of 5% or so. They argued that a boost was needed to make up for worldwide inflation and the dropping value of the dollar, which has cost them 20¢ per bbl. this...
...item on his agenda, was nearing a crisis point in Congress. Whether his proposals would be accepted, he felt, depended on his being on hand to cajole wavering legislators. How would it look, his political advisers asked, if the President were off motorcading through the streets of Lagos, Nigeria, or lunching with the Shah of Iran when they were frantically trying to reach him on the phone so that he could talk to a recalcitrant Senator...
...defended it in public. During last year's presidential campaign, Carter said he would not travel abroad in his first year in office. Yet he had already attended the London summit in May, and here he was preparing to plunge into a grab bag of nations (Brazil, Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, India, Iran, France, Poland and Belgium) with little hope of emerging with a common theme or coherent message. The inclusion of Brazil and Iran ruled out an overall emphasis on human rights, and the European portion made it difficult to bill the exercise as a courtesy call...
...other Western members of the Security Council (Britain, France, Canada and West Germany) for a carefully worded resolution that would impose the arms sanctions and also brand South Africa "a threat to international peace and security." With the help of Tanzania's Ambassador Salim Salim and Nigeria's Leslie Harriman, Young then began negotiations with the 49-member African group, the U.N.'s largest bloc. Most of the Africans favored the far stronger action of all-out economic sanctions, but Young argued that such a resolution would almost certainly lead to U.S., British and French vetoes...