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Hadi Abdul Taher, Saudi Arabian Minister of State and governor of the Petroleum and Minerals Agency (PETROMIN), told an audience of about 75 in Science Center C that unless both oil producers and consumers take a "moderate approach to the price question," the result may be "really important imbalances...interruptions of continuity of supply on a high level" sometime in the next 10 to 15 years...
Although the international political situation precludes an immediate raise in oil prices, eventual increases will be necessary in order to balance supply and demand, Taher said. He added these increases might follow inflation in oil-consuming nations...
Citing a joint U.S.-Saudi solar energy project now underway, Taher also emphasized the need for industrialized nations to develop alternative energy technologies that would allow for the conservation of hydrocarbons "for a very valuable few years longer...
...Camp David agreement. Iraqi Oil Minister Tayeh Abdul-Karim blasted it as "a policy of surrender" and made clear that he thought the Saudi policy of "moderation" on oil prices had done nothing to advance the Arab cause in the Middle East peace negotiations. Saudi Representative Abdul Hadi Taher replied bluntly that Middle East politics should scarcely be "the most important factor" in OPEC price policy...
Careful Planning. Iraq was ripe for revolt. Under the regime of General Aref, who took over in 1966 after his predecessor and brother Abdul Salem Aref died in a mysterious helicopter crash, the country suffered from so much corruption that the Premier, Lieut. General Taher Yahya, was widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed...