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...when ministers from the Big Seven and 17 other non-Communist countries gathered in Paris last week for a meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the spirit of harmony was carefully nurtured. The delegates issued a joint communique outlining general principles for fostering growth that could form a blueprint for a Williamsburg accord...
...Goldman further contends that contact with the West in the form of detente adds to the pressures for change. Although he believes that the Soviet goal is to "neutralize or intimidate the non-communist bloc, while holding on to the bloc Eastern European countries," Goldman points out that detente...
...getting out of hand, OPEC members held a desperate round of meetings in Paris and Riyadh. For the first time, non-OPEC members were being welcomed into the discussions. The oil ministers sought out representatives from Britain, Norway and Mexico, a step that symbolized the success of the non-OPEC world's attempt to free itself from the organization's stranglehold. Last year, for the first time in at least 20 years, the rest of the non-Communist world produced more oil than the 13 OPEC nations...
...much as 250,000 bbl. per day (Prudhoe Bay pumps out 1.5 million bbl. daily), the Santa Maria basin would still account for a mere 3% of total U.S. demand. Yet it is part of an encouraging trend that has seen the discovery of new oil in the non-Communist world begin to outstrip consumption. Since 1979, the Western nations have added 112.2 billion bbl. to proven reserves, while they have burned up just 49.4 billion...
...Says the University of California's George Breslauer: "He has tended to take a more tolerant view of Eastern Europe because he is more familiar than most with the complexities of those countries." But those are about the only countries he is familiar with; he has never visited a non-Communist nation...