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Saudi Arabia fires OPEC leader
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani,
Saudi Arabia's long-standing petroleum minister and leader
of OPEC, has been fired, the official Saudi Press Agency
reported In a terse announcement Thursday.
There have been rumors that Yamani was on the outs with
the royal family, and King Fahd appeared to undercut him
at a critical juncture of the Oct. 6-22 OPEC meeting. But
there was no evidence that he was in danger of losing his
job.
The surprise announcement issued before dawn in
Riyadh said Planning Minister Hisham Nazar had replaced
Yamani. Nazer is considered one of the key ministers in this
kingdom of 1 1 million.
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil-exporter and the
leading OPEC member. In recent statements Saudi Arabia
has made it clear that it will demand an increase in its own
production quota of 4.35 million barrels a day.
The announcement ofYamani's firing came amid reports
within the oil industry that Saudi Arabia was offering a 50
cent-per-barrel discount on its oil prices. The Saudi
government denied this Monday.
Yamani, his country's oil minister since 1962, is the
architect of the Saudi oil policy and the figurehead in
OPEC's rise to prominence worldwide. He was appointed oil
minister by King Saud, the present monarch's half-brother.
Yamani, a lawyer by trade, is considered the architect of
the 1973 Arab oil embargo that triggered the first major oil
price rise and reshaped the world economy.
He remained the key OPEC powerbroker, the top man in
the oil cartel's hierarchy.
In Brief
Science Academy opposes Star Wars
WASHINGTON National Academy of Science members think Presi
dent Reagan's "Star Wars" program cannot produce an effective defense
against Soviet nuclear attack and they believe spending for the program
should be cut, according to a survey released Thursday.
The survey was conducted among NAS members in scientific fields
relevant to SDI, such as physics and mathematics. The NAS is a private
organization chartered by Congress..
Of those responding, 78 percent said prospects are either "extremely
poor" or "poor" that a survivable and cost-effective SDI system can be
built within the next 25 years. Only 4 percent said the odds of success are
better than even.
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WASHINGTON Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev is planning to
visit Latin America, apparently in an
attempt to penetrate peacefully an
area where the United States has long
been the dominant influence, adminis
tration officials say.
The Soviet Communist Party Gen
eral Secretary plans to visit Cuba, Mos
cow's closest ally in the hemisphere,
and also is expected to become the
first Soviet leader ever to travel to Mex
ico, Argentina and Brazil, the officials
said.
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard She
vardnadze visited Mexico City three
weeks ago and laid the groundwork for
the Soviet-Mexican summit, according
to the officials, who insisted on
anonymity.
Other officials, however, said they
were concerned that the Shevardnadze
talks and the prospective visit by Gor
bachev raises the possibility of an
expanded "Soviet foothold" in this
hemisphere.
A long-term Soviet goal in Mexico is
the opening of consular offices in
northern Mexico, which would enable
the Soviets to widen their intelligence
gathering capabilities in the southern
United States, the officials said.
As far as is known, the only Soviet
leader to have visited Latin America
was the late Leonid Breznev, who tra
velled to Cuba for a Communist Party
congress in 1975.
But Moscow has been quietly ex
panding its diplomatic ties in Latin
America, increasing the number of
countries with which it has formal rela
tions from five to 16 over the past 26
years, according to the State Department.
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cocaine seizure
MIAMI U.S. Customs agents
inspecting a furniture shipment
discovered 4,620 pounds of cocaine,
the largest amount ever seized in
this country, federal officials said
Wednesday.
The cocaine, seized earlier
this month, had a wholesale value
of more than $46 million and
would be worth at least 10 times
that on the street, said Drug
Enforcement Administration
spokesman Jack Hook.
Customs, agents were check
ing two 4-foot-long containers
that held sofas and chairs when
they spotted empty, false com
partments inside the merchan
dise, said George Heavey, com
missioner of the Southeast Region
of the Customs Service.
No arrests have been made
and none are expected imme
diately, but an investigation is
continuing, said Diogenes K.
.Galanos, head of the DEA office
in Miami.
Cargo ship MALARGO I brought
the shipment from La Guaria,
Venezuela, to the Port of Palm
Beach. The rusty blue furniture
containers were unloaded Oct. 9,
and the vessel had left port
before agents found the cocaine
Oct. 17, Galanos said.
The cocaine was packed in
plastic-wrapped bundles stuffed
under the container's false floor.
Before discovery of the cache,
the largest cocaine seizure in the
United States was a March 1982
find of 3,940 pound aboard a
Colombia Airlines Cargo jet that
traveled from Medellin, Colom
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