Word: cameroons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorsement by U.S. officials would lend his plan credibility. He arrived in Washington in 1980 and began courting the capital's top lawyers, bankers and politicians. His pitch: the $6 billion, privately financed pipeline would allow Saudi Arabia to transport oil through Sudan, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. The oil could then be shipped across the Atlantic to the U.S., detouring the Persian Gulf. Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, found the idea appealing. Said Hatfield last week: "I maintain the fierce conviction that an oil pipeline through Africa would substantially reduce the potential for conflict...
...watch France defeat Brazil 2-0 in the final match last Saturday. The confrontation was the climax of a cross-country tournament that drew cheering crowds in Cambridge, Mass., Annapolis, Md., and Palo Alto, Calif., and had as competitors teams from such unlikely lands as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Cameroon. Both finalists survived tense overtime tests to reach the championship contest: France beat Yugoslavia 4-2, while Brazil nipped Italy 2-1. Some of the action was almost tough enough to warrant shoulder pads and helmets; in the semifinal, France's Didier Senac fractured his skull...
Discussing the outcome in the courtyard of Quincy House--the players' home for the week--the Cameroon players were even more bitter...
Referring to the play which caused the Canadian's first goal, one of Cameroon's coaches, Jean Michele Njele-Zek, said, "My players continued to play correctly up to the point of the penalty, which I thought was correct. But when the penalty happened to us, the referee closed his eyes...
...result of the game was an extension of the world's political and economic situation and the position of the Third World countries," said Eugene Ekeke. "The referee was obligated to call infractions against the Canadians after what he called against the Cameroon team." Apparently in Ekeke's eyes...