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In a move that could provide relief from
worldwide oil shortage, Saudi Arabia
1 • Bdecided to boost its oil production, the
ri 1 llblM press agency said Monday.
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;tra oil will be produced, or for how long,
[he Saudis currently produce about 8.5
[ion barrels per day — about 35 per-
of total OPEC production,
il analysts note that if Saudi Arabia in-
sed its exports by 1 million barrels per
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|reased their production —- it would
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market conditions which have existed for
the past six months.
The total world oil shortfall has been es
timated to be between 1.5 million and 2
million barrels per day.
The report from Jiddah, Saudi Arabia,
quoted official sources as saying the in
creased oil output would provide the funds
necessary to speed up the implementation
of the country’s five-year economic de
velopment plan.
“Saudi Arabia today (Monday) decided
to raise temporarily its daily (oil) output
within the framework of its policy, to
provide enough cash to spend on de-
^ justices will leave
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SS "ourt term open
United Press International
******§* WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Monday took a rare procedural step
i Bowing it to act this summer on challenges to the administration’s authority to
Bthhold federal contracts from violators of wage-price guidelines,
i TT T mThe high court issued all remaining opinions of its regular 1978-79 term before
k I .1 . Bjourning Monday, hut Chief Justice Warren Burger announced in the courtroom
pi.it the term will technically remain “open” until October when the new one opens.
lOne official in the court clerk’s office said the action was so rare that “I’ve never
Beard of it happening.”
■ The announcement on the last day of the court’s regular term leaves the justices
■eway to act during the summer, if it wishes, on an AFL-CIO appeal challenging
President Carter’ authority to withhold federal contracts from violators of its voluntary
arti-inflation guidelines.
JAU.S. appeals court has ruled in favor of the administration on the issue. But the
Tquestion is so important for the president’s inflation-fighting program that both sides
|aske d the high court to act quickly on it.
■ The full court rarely hears arguments and rules on a case during the summer. The
■st time it did so was in 1974, when it heard arguments on whether President Richard
■ixon must give up his Watergate tapes on July 8 and issued an 8-0 ruling July 24
-Brcing him to do so.
■ The AFL-CIO has been sharply critical of the guidelines program, and brought the
J* Biginal suit challenging the president’s authority to use this means to enforce it. It
Kgued the program infringes on the collective bargaining system.
H Under the administration’s program, companies declared to have violated the
fjfuidelines are ineligible for government contracts exceeding $5 million. Companies
Bfceking such contracts must certify they are in compliance.
& Austin!
In between classtime
Phil Stallings, a junior geophysics major, has this frisbee in hand. Stal
lings and friends spin the disc most every day around noon in front of the
Academic Center and welcome anyone interested to come out and join
them. Battalion photo by Clay Cockrill
velopment projects in the country in ac
cordance with the five-year plan,” the
agency said, quoting official sources in the
Saudi royal court.
Before last week’s OPEC meeting and
the Big Seven energy summit in Tokyo,
Saudi Arabian oil minister Sheikh Ahmed
Zaki Yamani had said the Saudis might in
crease their oil production to 9.5 million
barrels per day if the major Western con
suming nations made serious moves to
wards conservation.
Saudi Arabia has a sustainable oil pro
duction capacity of about 10.5 million bar
rels per day.
In another oil development, Kuwait,
the world’s seventh largest producer, said
Sunday the 2 million barrels of oil it
pumps a day will now sell for $19.49 a bar
rel, but did not say what, if any, surcharge
would be added to the new base price.
Despite its temporary move to east the
oil shortage, Saudi Arabia has warned
along with radical Libya that the West
faces a cutoff of supplies unless the United
States can force Israel to resolve the Pales
tinian issue to their liking.
Yamani, in an interview with Newsweek
magazine released Sunday, warned that
unless Israel is forced to withdraw to the
pre-1967 lines and allows creation of a
Palestinian homeland, desperate Palesti
nians may interrupt the flow of oil from the
Middle East.
In Kuwait, Libyan strongman
Moammar Khadafy defended his threat to
halt his country’s exports of 2 million bar
rels of oil a day as a legitimate political
weapon, though he said there were no
immediate plans to so.
“The use of oil by Arab states against
those nations who fail to respect the Arab
nation, and side completely with its
enemy (Israel), is a legitimate action,”
Khadafy told a news conference in Kuwait.
The twin warnings came as President
Carter told the nation that last week’s 24
percent price increase by the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries in
creases chances of serious recession,
higher inflation and unemployment all
leading to a curtailment of economic
growth.
Yamani told Newsweek the United
States must be prepared “to face the con
sequences” — a cutoff of Middle East oil
— unless it acts to pressure Israel to allow
a Palestinian homeland.
He was asked what could curtail the
flow of Middle East oil, priced at $18 to
$23.50 a barrel last week by OPEC.
Dancing in the sky
Steve Dault of Conroe, Texas took this picture at
Cain Pool at Texas A&M while participating in the
High School Communications Workshop held on
campus last week. The picture was made by overex
posing the sky, thereby underexposing for the de
tails in the people and trees.
A&M_ ^professor says^ it may reach U.S.
Mexican oil spill could be largest
By ROBIN THOMPSON
Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M University civil en
gineering professor, one of the few
experts on oil spills, said the current
spill in the Gulf of Mexico could
“very likely” become the largest in
history.
The Ixtoc I well, off the coast of
Mexico in the Bay of Campeche, has
been spilling oil into the ocean since
June 3.
Dr. Roy Hann, head of the Oil
Spill Technical Assistance Program,
recently visited the spill.
“It looks like a witch’s cauldron
boiling out in the ocean, with more
oil coming out every day,” he said.
If the oil continues to flow at its
present rate, it can cause severe
damage to the shrimp industry and
to beaches it comes in contact with,
he said.
“Oil can get stored in the beach
and be a source of pollution for a
long, long time.”
There is a chance, Hann said, that
the oil could reach the United States
by currents which come up as far as
Padre Island.
The spill could “severely affect”
the shrimp industry, Hann said, be
cause the Campeche Bay is one of
the largest shrimp pools in the
world.
However, Hann said he knows
more about the spills than the
ecological problems that result from
them.
If Mexico asks for assistance,
Hann said, his team will tell it what
technology and equipment is availa
ble to control the spill and clean the
shore, if it reaches the beaches.
In conjunction with the oil spill
program, Hann has done extensive
research on oil spills all over the
world including the Amoco Cadiz
spill in 1978 in which 223,000 tons
of oil were lost.
“It was a result of seeing how
many nations were unprepared that
planted the seed for this program,’’
Hann said.
One part of the program, for the
United Nations, involves presenting
one-week spill prevention courses
in various countries. So far Hann
has conducted courses in Columbia
and West Africa with future ones to
be held in Italy and Singapore.
“We teach them the technology
to prevent spills in the first place
and how to deal with them when
they actually occur,” he said.
The program also offers technical
assistance at the time of the spill and
provides detailed documentation of
what happened, Hann said.
“This is important for research
and for court cases.”
Hann has also used his research to
develop a graduate course on the
control and clean-up of oil spills.
Austin loses bias suit appeal
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court
let stand a lower-court ruling Monday that
the Austin school board intentionally dis
criminated against Mexican-Americans in
drawing up its desegregation plan.
The decision returns the case to a U.S.
district court judge for a hearing on just
what sort of plan is required to remedy past
discrimination.
Litigation on school desegregation in
Austin has been going on for nearly 10
years.
Austin has 81 schools and about 59,000
students, of which 15 percent are black and
23 percent Mexican-American. Blacks and
Mexican-Americans are concentrated in
the northeast part of the city.
In 1970, the United States filed suit
charging segregation of Mexican-
Americans in Austin schools and saying
past segregation of blacks by law had not
been fully remedied.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
three times has ruled the Austin school
board guilty of intentional discrimination
against Mexican-Americans.
It twice overruled a trial judge on the
issue, while affirming his findings that the
school board had failed to eliminate the last
vestiges of a state-imposed black-white
school system.
On Dec. 6, 1976, however, the Supreme
Court set aside its orders requiring im
plementation of a “comprehensive tri-
ethnic” desegregation plan which would
involve extensive cross-town busing.
It told the appeals court to look more
thoroughly into the reasons for racial
segregation in Austin. It noted a recent
ruling said the mere fact of racial dispropor
tion does not necessarily mean intentional
Fourth of July celebration
scheduled at Tiger Field
A crowd of more than 10,000 is expected in and around Tiger Field in College Station
Wednesday for the annual Fourth of July celebration and fireworks show sponsored by
the College Station Noon Lions Club.
An evening of family fun, food, clowns, singing and fireworks is planned, said Bill
Lafield, chairman of this year’s event for the local Lions Club. In addition, a special
program tracing the history of the U.S. flag from colonial days to the present is
planned.
Events begin at 6:30 p.m. with various games for everyone over age 6. These include
sack and two-legged races, tug of war and an egg toss.
During the evening, clowns will be handing out balloons to children and concession
stands will provide food and drinks.
“We don’t have an exact time for the beginning of the fireworks,” Myron Koehler,
assistant chairman for the celebration, said. “We will pace the program in order to
coincide with the onset of darkness. ”
U. S. Congressman Phil Gramm will be the featured speaker, followed by a commu
nity sing-along.
discrimination has occurred which must be
remedied.
The 5th Circuit, after dutifully reconsid
ering the case, once again on Nov. 21,
1977, ruled there had been intentional dis
crimination against Mexican-Americans. It
carefully explained the logic it used to
reach that result in hopes of meeting the
Supreme Court’s standards.
The appeals court said it was apparent
the school district “historically had used
neighborhood schools to accentuate and to
perpetuate segregation of blacks and
Mexican-Americans. ”
It also said Austin had taken an “exten
sive series of actions” involving locations of
new schools, assignment of faculty and
drawing of student attendance zones over
the years that had “the natural, foreseeable
and avoidable result of creating and main
taining an ethnically segregated school sys
tem.”
Relying on a 1977 decision, the appeals
court ordered the trial judge to consider
what impact intentional discrimination had
on racial distribution of the school popula
tion. It said if there was a system-wide im
pact, the scope of the remedy must he
system-wide.