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...whatever it is, to the rest of OPEC on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. By far the largest producers in OPEC, they could send prices through the floor if they chose to pump flat out. The threat could bring Nigeria and other wayward nations into line. As Mani Said al-Oteiba, oil minister for the United Arab Emirates, declared after the two-day Riyadh meeting, "If the other OPEC nations do not accept this accord, the gulf states will have to cut the price even more...
...cartel's largest single producer, with the remaining 200,000 bbl. being spread among other members. The group agreed to review its pricing and production arrangements in several weeks, when the organization's members gather for a previously scheduled spring conference in Quito, Ecuador. Said OPEC President Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates: "If need be, we are ready to cut production to zero, and OPEC as a whole is prepared to cut back to 10 million barrels...
...British decision to cut North Sea oil prices and the decision by Iran two weeks ago to reduce its prices finally pushed OPEC into action. Said a State Department analyst: "This has been one of the biggest threats yet to OPEC unity." United Arab Emirates Oil Minister Mani Said al-Oteiba, the current president of OPEC, announced that there would be a "consultative" meeting of the organization later this month. The session will sound out OPEC'S members on how much oil each is willing to keep off the market to stabilize prices...
...enough of its 600,000 bbl. in daily exports to pay for its war of attrition with Iraq, last week announced plans to cut $1 off its quoted price of approximately $33.20 per bbl., thereby threatening to spread price cutting to the Persian Gulf. OPEC's president, Sheik Mani Said al-Oteiba of the United Arab Emirates, last week indicated that further price reductions might force the organization to institute some cuts in output in order to firm up prices. But OPEC has never in its history been able to agree upon a program to curtail production...
...Aquino does return to the Philippines, his stop in the U.S. will be just another postcard visit in a career that has taken him all over the world. Born November 27, 1932, he started his professional life as a reporter, covering the Korean War for the Mani la Times ("Those Koreans, they're tough"). He then went to Southeast Asia, covering Vietnam for a couple of years, before becoming the paper's foreign affairs editor. He entered politics as a speech-writer for President Magsaysay...