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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY. JUNE 26. 1979 Thatcher replies to letter United Press International BATON ROUGE, La. — The handwritten note on impressive “10 Downing Street” stationery surprised Lynne Hair, who never ex pected to receive a letter from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Hair, chairwoman of the Louisiana Women’s Political Caucus, reg ularly types letters to prominent women who achieve an important goal. She recently congratulated Thatcher by mail on her selection as prime minister. Hair received a handwritten response, dated June 1979. “Thank you for your kind message of congratulations,” Thatcher replied. “The early days of the new administration have been busy and exciting as we start on carrying out the things we were elected to do. “Yours sincerely, Margaret Thatcher.” OPEC official warns prices may push market out of contr Eddie Dominguez 66 Joe Arciniega '74 United Press International MONTREUX, Switzerland — A senior OPEC official Monday warned that it is becoming increas ingly difficult for OPEC to control the price of oil and if the situation continues energy markets will be come “completely out of control. ” through next year as well. The mid-year meeting of 13- nation OPEC is generally consid ered the most crucial session since the 1973-1974 oil crisis. Speaking privately, OPEC offi cials said the boost could be 20 to 25 percent and possibly more. The warning was sounded at a forum of oil experts and executives by Dr. Fadil alChalabi, deputy sec retary general of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, on the eye of an OPEC meeting which is expected to approve another price increase. Dr. Ulf Lantze, executive direc tor of the International Energy Agency, told the forum he expects this year’s oil production shortfall of about 2 million barrels a day to last The Arab Emirates oil minister, Mana al Oteiba, current OPEC chairman, said in a pre-conference statement that the base price of oil should go up from $14.54 per barrel to $20 or $21. That would mean an increase of 40 percent or more. Western government and indus try observers in Geneva said the most optimistic guess would be a hike of around 20 percent, to $17.45 per barrel, and an end to the sur charges and premiums permitted by an agreement at the last meeting in March. Chalabi told the forum: “More than at any time in history the pricing of oil is currently over taken by the market forces rather than being fully administered by the collective action of the producers.” If this condition persists, the Iraqi-born Chalabi said, it will end up depriving the OPEC producers of the necessary tools to plan changes for their own economies and for world oil prices. “This situation, if it continues, would make energy markets com pletely out of control, ” he said. Chalabi made it clear that he did not consider uncontrolled price in creases were necessarily to the long term advantage of OPEC. OPEC’s control, he said, had the advantages of enabling the| countries to plan their i nomic development toj longterm trends of oil dem to prolong “the economicp OPEC.” Chalabi told the cortl entitled “Oil, Money andjj that trends towards com among the OPEC countr most likely increase infuh He said OPEC countries] veloping countries whoi most entirely on asinglec which is exported to world; Oil, he noted, is not only! foreign earner for OPECsJ the “basis of the technok formation of their society"! Dvvner- rissib ways offici Igt the nnissic idley s« [he sam Four Vietnam boats forced out; 2 others held If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . . . We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." Dallas location: 3071 Northwest Hwy 352-8570 United Press International KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian authorities Monday forced four small refugee boats out to sea and held two others in their stepped-up effort to check the mounting refugee tide. 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The neo-Fascist Italian Movement party andotheri ist parties are demanding government measures to terrorism, including institution of the death pel The death penalty abolished by Italy’s poi constitution." "The church isconcemd opening the hearts, esp<! the hearts of the young, the ideals of liberty, je« Umt t fraternity, love and theUDa good, the pope said, kxico — But the pope’s coir^y black marked the first time heearl cally warned of internal pcajpry to c backlash against terrorism g] before in hist* P 313 College Main in College Station [ouston Adai way t cripp a t Adair’s to pfr | |-iudad fire i f, out aft. Sunda r the ne >ng off about ping. 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