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...proven reserves of 40 billion bbl. and estimated potential reserves of 200 billion bbl. By comparison, Saudi Arabia has known reserves of 166 billion bbl. If the U.S. could eventually shift its oil dependence closer to home and away from the volatile Arabian Gulf that now satisfies about a third of U.S. imports, the country's security would be greatly strengthened. But other nations also are beginning to court the new Mexico. Japanese technicians have been exploring, Brazil is negotiating, and France's President Valery Giscard d'Estaing comes calling later this month...
...special relationship with the U.S. has enabled Mexico to achieve one of the fastest growing economies in the Third World; its gross national product after several very bad years, is once again increasing by about 6% a year. But the majority of Mexicans live in bleak poverty; per capita income was $1,070 a year in 1974, one-sixth of what it was in the U.S. Moreover, Mexico has one of the world's highest unemployment rates, up to half of its work force by some estimates...
Speakers at the Third World Conference on Human Rights last night criticized the United States for denying civil rights to its minority citizens and for infringing on the rights of citizens in other countries as well...
...concern and support for Palestinian, Chilean, and African human rights is no less than our concern and support for the black man in the United States," Mohammed Abdul-Assiz, third secretary to the Libyan mission, said last night...
Kevin Fong, an organizer of the conference and member of the Harvard Asian Law Students Association, said, "We tried to bring in domestic minorities and international third world representatives to participate in the conference. We never intended to set up an Arab-Israeli debate nor to take sides on the issue...