VOL. XLI

No. 03

19-January-1998

OPEC

Confusion Surrounds Date Of OPEC MMC Meeting

Efforts by some OPEC countries to set the stage for effective action by the oilexporters' Organization to remedy the current parlously weak condition of the oil marketseemed, at MEES press time on Friday, to have succeeded in creating nothing betterthan even more confusion. It would appear that the current campaign of intra-OPECconsultations - spearheaded by Algeria, Iran and Libya - has a two-phase objective: to...