VOL. XLIII

No. 15

10-April-2000

OPEC

Senate Urges Legal Action Against OPEC

The following letter to President Clinton was circulated in the Senate on 30 March by Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA), Joseph Biden (D-DE), Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Herb Kohl (D-WI). The senators, in asking the president to consider litigation against OPEC and other oil-producing countries because of their efforts to raise production and thus increase prices, identify the US laws that, in their view, are being breached and...