Word: qatar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab countries that pledged two weeks ago to reduce oil output at least 5% a month began vying with one another to go farther than that individually. Four of the biggest producers-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Algeria and Qatar-decreed immediate slashes of 10%. That will produce a global shortage; before the cutbacks, world oil production had been barely 2% ahead of demand...
...Five countries-Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq, Abu Dhabi and Qatar-extended the export embargo to The Netherlands. The Arabs have been incensed by reports-denied by The Hague-that the Dutch government has offered alternative transit facilities for Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel, replacing the center that Austria promises to close (see following story). The Netherlands is also an important exporter to the U.S. of heating oil as well as other petroleum products refined from Arab crude. Thus the Arabs may well have hit The Netherlands in order to further squeeze...
...Saudi Arabia late last month to tighten relations with conservative King Feisal, enlist his aid in oil diplomacy, and persuade him to part with sizable financial aid for Egypt. Sadat also began seeking closer relations with Syria and with the oil-rich Gulf states; he visited Damascus and Qatar and met with the ruler of Kuwait in Cairo...
...country home, 50 miles north of Cairo, with Libya's mercurial strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Sadat had just concluded a jet-propelled, hush-hush tour of his own to two oil-rich neighbors and Syria. With Saudi Arabia's King Feisal and the Emir of Qatar, Sadat had discussed how best to use Arab oil and funds in the fight against Israel, and had wrung promises of lavish support. These commitments strengthened Sadat by leaving him less dependent on money from Libya's bubbling black gold...
Bangladesh, Botswana and Qatar. There was another country, too, called Biafra. Like those radioactive elements produced in a laboratory, it was destined for a brief, intense half-life before it vanished forever. But the eyes of its starving children still stare from old magazines-and in the memory...