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...sports-minded country have endured boycotts and other sanctions. But now a number of Third World foes of apartheid have come up with a new, potentially more devastating weapon: a boycott against athletes from other nations guilty of playing in, or having other ties to, South Africa. Last month Nigeria detained three visiting British tennis pros because they had played the South African summer circuit. Guyana expelled a visiting British cricketer with South African connections, only to have the entire English team leave in a huff before the first match was played. Then, earlier this month, Trinidad canceled a planned...
...onetime British colonies, the words vary widely: a bribe in Nigeria is called dash, in India a backhander. The popular Japanese word for bribe is wairo, but corruption is poetically called kuroi kiri, or black mist...
Though it remains by far the most potent force in the oil trade, OPEC is seeing its role being gradually eroded, both by disputes among its members and by happenstance. Production is tailing off in Venezuela, Nigeria, Libya and other African countries, while for much of this winter the war between Iran and Iraq choked off almost entirely exports from those two producers. Result: in 1980 OPEC production slid by 13%, its biggest drop ever...
...tighten the market back up, was precisely what the six OPEC ministers had gathered in Geneva to discuss. At the meeting was not just Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose nation accounts for almost half of the cartel's oil output, but representatives of Kuwait, Nigeria, Algeria, Indonesia and Venezuela as well...
...back across the border, SWAPO would be in Namibia." However, crossing the Angolan border at will, as South Africa has been doing, could backfire. Third World frustration over Pretoria's failure to make concessions at Geneva has generated renewed demands by black African nations like oil-rich Nigeria for international sanctions against South Africa. The call for an embargo by the U.N. Security Council is likely to get widespread support. The South Africans hope to get a more sympathetic hearing from Reagan's Administration. Washington's European allies, however, are expected to continue to push...