Veronica Brazil
August 2, 2001
On April 19, 2001, Mr. Donaldson, as the pilot of the floatplane (registration number OB-1408), took off from the Amazon River at Iquitos and headed for the Peruvian town of Islandia. With him as passengers were James Bowers, his wife Veronica, and their young children Cory and Charity. They were going to the Colombian town of Leticia in order to complete the consular paperwork mentioned above. Mr. Donaldson filed his flight plan from Iquitos to Islandia by radio with the Iquitos control tower immediately after taking off from the Amazon River. The control tower, in turn, notified the Leticia control tower of that flight plan by phone. ... [Read More]
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Article Alert, Archives--Environment & Global Issues
This paper investigates how far OPEC influences world oil markets. We ask the question: What is the impact of the decisions of the OPEC Conference, the supreme authority of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, on world oil prices? Extracting the Conference's decisions from the communiques of fifty meetings from 1984-2001, these decisions were compared with the subsequent market developments. The result is that this impact is weak at best, and if at all then restricted to meetings recommending a price increase. However, the opposite claim (found in the literature) - the Conference is simply following the market - was also not supported either. Another interesting observation is the little autocorrelation between the decisions of Members of Earth Island gathered in Boston November 20 to hear Dr. Charles Chester talk about biodiversity. The event was held at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, ... [Read More]
Key Officers - All
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1996 Country Commercial Guides
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