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...Jordanian jet was under charter to Nigeria Airways, which each year runs a special shuttle to ferry Nigerian Moslems making their pilgrimages to Mecca. Jordanian and Nigerian authorities differed on the cause of the crash. The Jordanians maintained that the runway had collapsed and that Pilot John Waterman, 53, an American with 22,000 jet hours, lost control because of the depression in the strip, which snapped the plane's rugged landing gear. The plane then slued off the runway and burst into flames when fuel lines were punctured...
...Nigerians denied that the runway was responsible for the crash and claimed that the pilot had ignored control-tower orders not to land because of weather conditions. Actually, the cause of the crash might have been a combination of factors. Aircraft experts pointed out that jet fuel in Nigeria is so expensive that the 707 might have been carrying an extra supply. Even though it was an estimated 10,000 Ibs. below its permissible landing weight of 247,000 Ibs., the heavy plane might have crumpled the runway. The resulting hole could have caused the landing gear to collapse...
...months of last year it did little better than break even; operating profit was $10.7 million, but currency-exchange losses reduced net to $764,000. Prospects are looking better now. Oil demand is booming in Europe, the company's prime market. Occidental has made new oil discoveries in Nigeria and Peru, and last week a consortium that it heads brought in its first well in the North Sea-a promising development, although the potential cannot now be accurately assessed. On the other hand, the Libyan government is moving to acquire 50% of all Western oil interests in the country...
...year it voted for only a few resolutions, including one to reduce its own budget contribution from 31% to 25% of the total. By comparison, such African states as Zambia and Burundi voted with the majority 92% of the time, according to the World Association of World Federalists, while Nigeria and Yugoslavia scored 85% and the Soviet Union 60%. The U.S. withheld support from 15 out of 20 key resolutions. It refused to support a proposal that the Indian Ocean be declared off limits to foreign navies, and it came out against a resolution once more ordering Israel...
Crude oil may be a very important source of revenue to other countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, and Iraq, where its share of the total exports varies from 60 per cent to 95 per cent. It certainly is not so in Angola, where the exports are diversified into a large number of products sold all over the world. Sincerely yours, Reque Felix Dias Press Attache Portuguese Embassy, Washington...