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...offensive in three areas: 1) "forcefully" broadcast the achievements of Western liberalism such as the multinational corporation-"arguably the most creative international institution of the 20th century"; 2) assert that "inequalities in the world may be not so much a matter of condition as of performance," citing Brazil, Nigeria, Singapore and other Third World success stories; 3) compare the political and civil liberties that the Third World countries "provide their own peoples [and] those which are common and taken for granted...
...Dhabi has ordered Western oil companies operating there to increase production immediately -leaving those firms to find a way to sell it. The companies had reduced pumping because Abu Dhabi's oil was more expensive and less profitable to market than petroleum in some other OPEC countries. Nigeria has also been prodding Western oil firms to boost production despite sagging demand...
When estimating the surplus for 1980, the optimists tend to lump the cartel countries together. But the populous nations (Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria) may register payments deficits in several years, while the lightly populated countries of the Persian Gulf will be building ever bigger surpluses. The Morgan Guaranty report concedes that in 1980, Saudi Arabia's surplus will bulge at $100 billion, by far the world's highest...
Lawal received his B.A. from the University of Nigeria at Nsukka in 1966 in Fine Arts. He earned his MA and Ph.D. at Indiana University...
Lawal, who teaches both African and Western European art history in Nigeria, said African art had acted as a catalyst for modern art in Europe. He said the Europeans found the forms "original and stimulating...