VOL. XXXI

NO. 25

28-MARCH-1988

OPEC AND OIL PRICES

Algerian Media Expresses Concern over Saudi Oil Policy

Algeria's semi-official daily El-Moudjahid has expressed concern over what itinterprets as Saudi oil policy against a background of falling oil prices. Thearticle evidently caused some indignation in Saudi Arabia and elicited arebuttal from the Saudi Oil Minister, Mr. Hisham Nazer (see page A3). Thearticle in question, published in El Moudjahid on 16 March, had the followingto say:

"Alarm bells...