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Their views are anathema within OPEC. At the Quito meeting, Venezuela, Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Kuwait pushed hard for a 63? increase in posted prices to offset the effects of inflation on the prices of the goods that they buy from the U.S., Europe and Japan. Iranian Finance Minister Jamshid Amuzegar, who has accused the Saudis of hypocritically calling for price reductions while actually raising prices, favored a slightly smaller hike, "to show the industrialized nations that we are serious when we say that they must keep inflation in check." Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani reportedly threatened to force...
...White collection includes a superb variety of masks, from cumbrous affairs that need an athlete to lift them to a wooden Ogoni mask from Nigeria, with its curving protrusion of lips like a bird's beak, too small to fit a human head. Thompson has included films showing how these personifications of spirit and moral forces are used in communal dances: Gaa Wree-Wre, for instance, the Dan personification of "ideal justice," with its white-rimmed eyes, worn in a dance characterized by ponderous walking and sitting...
...Karefa-Smart came to Harvard in 1947 to study public health, and, after a year, returned to his village to apply community health measures he was sure would cut down the number of patients needing treatment for contagious diseases. But, before he could begin, the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, asked him to train other Africans in preventive medicine. He lectured there until...
Today, famine is rampant in Ethiopia, the African nations of the Sahel (Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta), Gambia and in areas of Tanzania and Kenya. Near famine also plagues Bolivia, Syria, Yemen and Nigeria. One poor harvest could bring massive hunger to India, the Sudan, Guyana, Somalia, Guinea and Zaire. In two dozen other nations, the populace faces chronic food shortages. Among them: Bangladesh, Iran, Indonesia, the Philippines and Haiti...
...economy-and no more," says an Arab spokesman. The implication is that some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will reduce output to keep supply and demand in balance and prices high. Indeed, Venezuela, Kuwait and Libya have already decreased their production of oil; but Iran, Nigeria, Indonesia and others have stepped up theirs, more than making up the slack...