Word: summits
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When they get together, Africa's leaders are great talkers. When they return home, however, they too often seem to forget what the talk was all about. Last week, at the fourth "summit conference" of the Organization of African Unity in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, heads of state from 18 African nations passed a number of resolutions that could go far toward bringing order to the Continent-if anything is ever done about them. One of the main achievements of the conference was that the chiefs were able to assemble...
...aftermath of their Khartoum summit meeting, some Arab nations finally began to patch up their quarrels with one another. They also began to deal more rationally with the West. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt...
First Saudi Arabia, then Kuwait, Libya and Iraq-the four major Arab oil-producing states-agreed to resume shipments in keeping with the deal struck two weeks ago by Arab heads of state at their summit session in Khartoum. Another three months of embargo, explained Egyptian Minister of Economy Hassan Abbas Zaki, would cost the West $770 million worth of oil but would deprive the Arab producers of $870 million of income. Only Algeria, the fifth-ranking producer, kept its embargo. And even that involved more symbolism than substance, since the overwhelming percentage of Algerian output goes...
...home, meanwhile, he played to the Arab grandstands by nationalizing two American-owned oil-distribution companies. Syria, where the Six-Day War is called "the Temporary Setback," sent Foreign Minister Ibrahim Makhous to Khartoum, then recalled him before the summit began. "There is no prospect for positive action," the departing Makhous announced...
...defeat. Led by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the rich oil-producing states agreed to put up $392 million to rebuild Egypt and Jordan-on condition that they be allowed to resume oil shipments to the West. But instead of pursuing destructive schemes for all-out rearmament against Israel, the summit dwelt on more sober thoughts. Nasser himself set the tone...