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...market's spasms the day after their remarks, OPEC delegates proceeded carefully. Instead of deciding to switch to free-for-all prices, the ministers appointed a committee to consider strategies. When the market continued to plummet, the ministers finally restored order by making soothing remarks. Said Alirio Parra, the chief adviser to Venezuela's oil minister: "We are astounded by the way the market has reacted." While individual members will no doubt continue to make under-the-table discounts, as they have for several years, no official price cuts are likely to come until the group meets again in February...
...cleared by eight bodyguards, Salvadoran Constitutional Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson struck an aggressive pose last week as he approached a specially erected platform in the remote Salvadoran farming cooperative of Parra Lempa. D'Aubuisson wore white and a .38-cal. revolver, an emblem by which he is familiarly known. "Some people write that we are barbarians and bloody," he shouted to an audience of some 400 campesinos. "But today, you have seen that we stand for land reform. In return for your vote, we Nationalist Republicans promise to work for the people." The crowd cheered...
...Aubuisson has played skillfully on both sides of the land-reform issue. Despite his grandstanding act of handing over land titles at Parra Lempa, D'Aubuisson and ARENA fought hard to limit the size of Salvadoran holdings that could be expropriated under the agrarian reform for peasant...
...Ernesto Parra and Jose Lazo, Summer School students who initiated the original petition, said last night that best studying conditions are late in the evening and the intensity of a Summer School course requires longer library hours...
...annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear forever from our markets...