Word: quito
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stormy OPEC meeting of government ministers (see pictures, top and bottom this page) in Quito, Ecuador, the Saudis blocked yet another sizable increase in oil prices-though they had to settle for a tiny...
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...
...total of $151,510 in fines. With a 50-boat flotilla headed down from San Diego and the prospect of yet another showdown, the State Department last week sent a diplomatic flotilla of its own, headed by Charles Meyer, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, to Quito to try to reach some kind of settlement...
...Troubles. Last week the sounds of stress seemed all too familiar and ominous to Velasco. In Quito, the capital, seven consecutive days of student violence ended in a three-hour battle involving tanks, tear gas and the chatter of machine guns. As if on cue, Velasco summoned his military chiefs. "I quit," he announced. This time, however, there was a change in the script. At the urging of Defense Minister Jorge Acosta, 49, who is Velasco's nephew, the generals refused to accept the President's resignation. Instead, they urged him to accept the backing of the barracks...
...help loosen the oligarchy's stranglehold on the country's economic life. The military took advantage of the takeover to crack and shave student skulls and to fill the jails with indiscriminate arrests. Among those seized was TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia, who was arrested without explanation in Quito and then expelled from the country after spending a night confined to a 6-ft. by 9-ft. cell in a Quito penitentiary...