It's 'Petter Nore'. He's Norwegian and, when I last heard some years ago, was a senior bureaucrat in the Norwegian Ministry concerned with oil. michael thanks for the info. this message is actually a test since i do not seem to be getting copies of my own OPE-L messages (i hadn't got nicky's penultimate message either). sorry to have bothered everyone. but since i am here: is samir amin still on this list? i remember that his short book on the arab economy (zed; 1980?) to have been a very illuminating study of the distortions of dependent development. aijaz ahmad's lineages of the present (verso, 2000 or 2001) is rather thoughtful and detailed regarding india-pakistan relations... Rakesh
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