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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today Contadora is Panama's star resort, with a government-owned casino and 210-room hotel (average room price: $70 a day). About 80 weekend homes owned mostly by wealthy Panamanians dot the beaches and hills. Palm, papaya and banana trees shade the island, and peacocks and deer roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shah's Haven | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

While Venezuelan air force helicopters whirred in the sky above and 5,000 soldiers patrolled on the ground below, armed motorcades wound through the clogged streets of Caracas. It was a typical Panavision entrance for the 13 oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The price-fixing cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: OPEC Fails to Make a Fix | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Midway through the fourth day, the ministers called it quits. An exhausted Yamani pledged to hold Saudi prices firm at $24 per bbl., but he was well aware that the survival of the cartel was now in question. Said he, trying to put the best face on his defeat: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: OPEC Fails to Make a Fix | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

With OPEC in disarray and vulnerable, bold action by oil-importing nations to cut their dependence on foreign petroleum cannot be easily countered by cartel members. Operating through OPEC, their monopolistic, price-propping has placed an enormous and continuing burden on oil consumers everywhere. Economist Otto Eckstein, president of Data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: OPEC Fails to Make a Fix | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

The Islamic revolution in Iran has sent out shock waves of confusion and distress throughout the monarchies of the Middle East. A state of jitters prevails in the Arabian peninsula, whose petroleum exports are vital to the security of the U.S. and its allies. The rulers of Saudi Arabia, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Proceed with Caution | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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