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TEHRAN, Iran — Tens of
thousands of pro-Khomeini demon
strators marched Tuesday while air
force jets flew over Tehran in a show
of force. More than 400 Americans
left Iran in a steady evacation of
U.S. nationals.
Three military flights Tuesday air
lifted some 300 Americans out of the
country and more than 100 others
left on regular flights. Several
hundred more Americans were
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Americans in Iran on private busi
ness to also go because of the dete
riorating situation.
Prime Minister Shahpour Bakht
iar, meanwhile, dismissed a new
riv al Islamic government an
nounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini as a “joke” and said the
country’s political turmoil could be
solved through its existing constitu
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Gas negotiations a possibility B
when Carter goes to Mexico
United Press International
MEXICO CITY — Embassy
spokesmen said there is a “possibil
ity” President Carter will crack two
years of frozen negotiations for sales
of Mexican natural gas when he
meets with President Jose Lopez
Portillo here.
Carter, accompanied by Secre
tary of State Cyrus Vance and other
high officials, will visit Mexico be
tween next Tuesday and Feb. 16.
An embassy source said Carter
would hold private talks with Lopez
Portillo on several bilateral topics
highlighted by oil, gas, braceros and
trade.
Two years ago six U.S. oil com
panies and the Mexican government
agreed in principal to delivery of 2
billion cubic feet of gas, worth $1.9
billion annually at $2.60 per 1,000
cubic feet. It was to be transported
through a pipeline built from south
eastern Tabasco state to Reynosa,
Texas.
The Carter Administration vetoed
the deal, refusing to pay more than
$2.18 as paid to Canadian suppliers.
In response, Mexico suspended
construction of a link to Reynosa and
suspended construction of the gas-
o-duct 75 miles short of the border.
The gas has been redirected to
Monterrey and other industrial cen
ters.
An embassy source said an
agreement on gas between the two
heads of state “is a possibility” but
that negotiations would be “dif
ficult” and the “Mexicans aren’t
about to compromise their pride
and nationalism.”
Lopez Portillo has repeatedly said
Mexico is ready to use its gas for
internal purposes unless the United
States offers a better price.
While discussing the coming talks
with Carter with local reporters re
cently, the Mexican president said,
“If we can agree to an accord we will
sell to them. The United States is a
logical client.”
Now that Congress has passed
Carter’s modified energy
possibility of a deal has increas
The U.S. domestic price forj
formally fixed at $1.75 perthoii^
cubic feet, is now $2.07 and ski.
continue to rise towards the Mi |
can asking price
The Canadian selling price isi|
on the rise.
Energy Secretary Jac
Schlesinger recently dampi
hopes for a natural gas dealwht
said development of domei
supplies take a priority over ]
can pipeline gas.
Oil resources in Mexico
to promote social change
The embassy source saidalth®
there are difficult “issues andpr
lems remaining” in Mexican-11
relations, “they are a lot betters
than during the (President b
Echeverria time. The ambassa
(Patrick J. Lucey) believesrelati
have improved.”
United Press Internutional
HOUSTON — A Mexican
economist says his nation will use its
growing oil power to bring on social
change and will not give into foreign
powers — such as the United States
— to increase petroleum imports.
“Mexico’s policy will tend toward
reducing its dependence on the
United States,” Dr. Victor L. Ur-
quidi, an economist and president of
El Colegio de Mexico, said Monday.
“Mexico will tend to diversify its re
lations around the world.
“Oil resources in Mexico are seen
not as something to be squandered
and exported indiscriminately but as
something to lead us to help speed
Mexican social changes,” Urquidi
said.
He emphasized to reporters in
advance of his speech to the Ameri
can Enterprise Institute’s confer
ence on U.S.-Mexico relations that
he did not speak for the Mexican
government.
“The Mexican approach to rela
tions with the United States is es
sentially one of mistrust,” Urquidi
said.
Many factors, from Mexico’s de
pendence on American imports and
financial backing to its inability to
stop drug traffic, will hinder his
country’s resistence to petroleum
profiteering in the 1980s when an
estimated I million barrels of oil per
day become available for export, he
said.
Mexico’s nationalized oil com
pany, Pemex, has estimated the un
tapped oil and gas reserves at 40 bil
lion barrels.
“Pressure on the part of the
United States upon Mexico to in
duce Mexico to rapidly increase pe
troleum output is likely to be re
sisted, in the own interests of
Mexico, both medium-and long
term, by the Mexican government
and by Mexican public opinion,”
Urquidi said.
Mexico is not as manipulative as
Americans think, he said, although
“there are subtle ways that ideas can
be pushed through. I have heard
there is a lot of pressure from the
think tanks such as Rand, the Brook
ings Institute, and others.”
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recent American newspaper articles
which he said encouraged Mexico to
“use your oil to become like us.”
Another conference speaker.
University of Texas professor Dr.
Peter T. Flawn, agreed with Ur
quidi that Washington does not re
spect Mexico.
U.S. government sources
Washington say presidential
visors are asking Carter to urge
Mexican president to raise oil
ports in the coining years too
come possible U.S. shortages
could arise with Iranian supply
jeopardy.
In return, the United Statesco
offer Mexico trade concessions
such items as tomatoes, textiles!
petrochemicals when they are as
able.
The Mexicans, fearing inllaii
dislocated economic growtlq
social pressures like those beinp L
perienced by Iran, have decidfi nfHV
delay oil production and ei|
growth until after 1980.
In 1980, Mexico will produce
million barrels a day of crude,
porting 1.5 million. U.S. sourc«|
lieve Mexico could produce
tween 4 and 5 million barrels
by the mid-1980s if they wanted
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Two more natural gas producing states — Net
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Mexico and Wyoming — have joined Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiau 111 other
in a legal challenge of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 and fiveoi
six’ other states have expressed interest in joining the action
in the c
and displ
Attorneys for four of the states met Monday in a strategy meeting sired slici
for an “exploratory” session because many of the attorneys were net
to the case. Since the lawsuit was filed in November, new adminfr
“It’s as
the body
trations have come to power in Texas and Oklahoma, while Ne» nachine
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Mexico and Wyoming have just recently joined the action.
New Mexico, however, was not represented at the meeting.
Gary Keyser, assistant attorney general for Louisiana, said 'fiveo
six other states, including one on the East Coast, have expressed
interest in joining the court action
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Wyoming arc asl utgrowt
ing a federal district court in Oklahoma City to declare the Naturd luced tl
Gas Policy Act unconstitutional.
The new law gradually decontrols the price of natural gas, buti
the meantime it extends federal price controls for the first time tog)!
produced and consumed within a single state.
The states claim the federal government has no authority toeontri
the price of natural gas that never crosses state lines.
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