Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible without the billions of barrels of oil that lie beneath the region's sands. Gaddafi and the other oil-rich Arabs have exploited their resources with a shrewd combination of cooperation and militancy. Under the auspices of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), founded by Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia in 1960 to fight a reduction in prices by the oil companies, the eleven major petroleum-producing countries have increased prices 72% since 1970. Last week in Beirut they demanded further compensation to cover the recent erosion of the dollar and pound sterling. Lest the oil consumers...
...sabre team pays the rent for this team," Venezuela said yesterday. "I don't see any way CCNY is going to stop the payments...
...Latin America, the Union Corse is extremely influential in a number of countries, including Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Paraguay, Bolivia and Panama. In some cases, the influence has proved strong enough to protect a handful of heroin laboratories that have recently been moved there from Marseille. In Paraguay, Corsican influence is believed to have been behind the U.S.'s recent difficulties in extraditing French-born Auguste Ricord to the U.S. to face narcotics charges...
...owner of a string of aliases (Mr. André, Lucien Darguelles, "El Comandante") and a police record that includes a bust for theft in prewar Marseille, a 1950 French conviction as a "dangerous" wartime Gestapo agent, and links in more recent years with prostitution in Argentina and Venezuela. Not long ago, Ricord picked up a new moniker: among U.S. narcotics agents, he began to be known simply as the "Latin Connection...
...prosperous Venezuela's middle-of-the-road Christian Democratic government. A rapprochement between Havana and Caracas, which was the victim of a particularly vicious Cuban-sponsored terrorist campaign in the early 1960s, would be a major coup for Cuba. It achieved a minor one last week, when Dudley Thompson, a Jamaican Minister of State, turned up in Havana to discuss trade and, possibly, resumption of airline service between Kingston and Havana...