This report discusses the background of the G-20 (an international forum for discussing and coordinating economic policies) and some of the issues that it has addressed. It includes historic background on the work of the G-20, information about how the group operates, overviews of G-20 summits, major issues that the group is likely to address and the likely effectiveness of the G-20 in the near future. The members of the G-20 include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.

This report discusses the background of the G-20 (an international forum for discussing and coordinating economic policies) and some of the issues that it has addressed. It includes historic background on the work of the G-20, information about how the group operates, overviews of G-20 summits, major issues that the group is likely to address and the likely effectiveness of the G-20 in the near future. The members of the G-20 include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.

Map shows cities, major roads and trade routes, and physical features for the southern portion of the Asian continent: Arabia, Persia, Hindoostan, China and the Chinese Empire, Tibet, the Burman Empire, the Philippine Islands, and portions of Korea and Japan. Includes historical notes and alternative place names. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:11,000,000].

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Saudi Arabian oil minister who told the Japanese that his country is interested in industrial equipment and technology.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Saudi Arabian oil minister who has suggested in Japan that king Faisal is willing to lower oil prices.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Israeli forces who gave up their positions along the Cairo Suez road in the first phase of their pullback on the Suez Front.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Saudi Arabia's oil minister who warned japan against president Nixon's conference of oil consuming nations.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a strike by independent truck drivers who appears to be all but over. Also, about Kissinger who takes his negotiating talent in opening of a 13- nation energy conference.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of reports from London which indicates that Britain is about to finalize an agreement with Saudi Arabia for 30 million tons of oil per year in exchange for sophisticated arms and heavy machineries.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Saudi Arabia's oil minister who says that Japan, Britain and other nations considered friendly will be provided with oil to satisfy their needs.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about president Nixon who reportedly has taken full responsibility for a series of wiretaps of officials and newsmen from 1969 to 1971.

Interview with Howard Yergin, an employee of Caltex Petroleum Corporation from New York City. Yergin discusses his career with the company, including his education and Army service, hiring by Caltex, move to Shanghai in 1948 and business conducted there, businessmen who helped reestablish Caltex's Chinese market after WWII, fleeing China in 1949, attempts at recouping capital from the Chinese government, operations in Hong Kong, changes in the oil market over the years, corporate financing, internal reorganization, OPEC, Persian Gulf economies, South African operations, the tanker fleet, and the company's move from New York to Dallas.