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Last week's meeting had hardly got under way when it ran into trouble. Nigerian Oil Minister Tam David-West sparked an uproar by discrediting a report prepared by Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates. The study came from a committee that attempts to find out which OPEC members are secretly exceeding their quotas or selling at discounts from official prices. Financially strapped Nigeria is one of the suspects. Oteiba stormed out of the conference, telling reporters that David-West "is stabbing OPEC in the back by defying our pricing structure...
Oteiba's surprise comment came after his Nigerian counterpart, Tam David-West, ruled out joining the cartel in reducing production to prop up its prices...
...different type of talent," she said of this year's tam, which prefers to run around opponents instead of run them over...
...varying degrees of skepticism or approval. In a joint statement with Helsinki Watch and Americas Watch, two human rights groups, Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, accused the Administration of "disturbing biases" toward countries in which it "has a strong political stake." Hue-Tam Tai, a Vietnamese professor of history at Harvard University, questioned the conclusion that Hanoi was last year's most egregious human rights violator. "There are other countries, including China, Iran and some U.S. allies in South America, that I would consider very likely worse," she said...
From West Germany. Argentina acquired two patrol boats, two conventional Type 209 (Salta) submarines and 125 TAM medium tanks...