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
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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.”
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entitled “Oil, Money andjj
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most entirely on asinglec
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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.
Eyewitnesses said Malaysian sol
diers loaded 319 refugees into four
small boats from the northeast
Merang village and a police boat es
corted them to international waters.
The authorities reportedly re
provisioned the boats with food and
water before pushing the refugees
out to sea.
Eyewitnesses said the refugees,
who arrived recently from Vietnam,
were taken from their makeshift
camp on the beach and put on the
boats. They said the refugees did
not resist.
A Malaysian naval vessel Monday
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600 refugees off Kuala Trengganu,
200 miles northeast of Kuala Lum
pur, to prevent them from coining
ashore.
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and the women and children in it
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