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Monday, September 8, 1980
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audis to raise oil price by $4 per barrel
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia,
America’s biggest oil supplier, is about to
jack up its price by $4 a barrel, an increase
of nearly 15 percent, says the president of
thi Arab-dominated OPEC oil cartel.
■Belkacem Nabi, who doubles as Algeria’s
H minister, also indicated in an interview
the Saudis may soon cut back oil production
f*— a reduction that other oil experts say
could reach 1 million barrels a day.
BSuch a move would have a solid impact in
the United States. America relies on
Riyadh for nearly 24 percent of its daily oil
imports and has capitalized on Saudi contri
butions to a world oil glut to build its own
reserves.
Saudi oil presently sells at $28 a barrel,
lowest among the 13 members of the Orga
nization of Petroleum Exporting Coun
tries.
Nabi, current OPEC president, told the
Beirut weekly newsletter An-Nahar Arab
Report and MEMO, T think the Saudis
will raise their price to $32 (a barrel).”
Asked whether Riyadh might set the in
crease before or during a meeting of OPEC
oil, finance and foreign ministers set for
Sept. 15-16 in Vienna, Austria, Nabi re
plied, “You must ask the Saudis.”
“All I know is that Saudi Arabia will raise
its oil prices.”
Other oil experts have suggested the
Saudis might set up a $4 increase in two
steps — $2 soon, and.another $2 by the end
of the year, to reach the $32-a barrel official
floor price OPEC established in Algiers in
June.
A price hike and a production cut are the
weapons Saudi Arabia has to drive OPEC
back to the unified price structure Riyadh
has sought for months.
OPEC prices presently range from the
Saudi low of $28 to more than $37 charged
by Algeria and other cartel members.
The present Saudi production level of
Reclining reader
Charlene Gay, a senior from Buna, does some laid-back reading Thurs
day in front of the Academic Building. Sunday’s thundershowers brought
a halt to the plans of weekend sunbathers,
good for today.
Staff photo by Pat O’Malley
• prospects for more rain were
9.5 million barrels a day, coupled with its
low price, has helped contribute to a buil
dup of world oil stocks that some experts
say now stand at 5 billion barrels.
The United States has taken advantage of
the glut to increase its reserves in under
ground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana
— a project that has angered some Arab
hardliners who, in turn, have put heavy
pressure on the Saudis.
“At the moment,” said Nabi in an ob
vious reference to Saudi Arabia, “some
members of OPEC are producing crude at
an excessively high level, and this has had
an adverse effect on the market.”
But, he said, “personally I do not believe
that this situation will last. I think that the
organization will revert to producing oil in
accordance with the needs of its members
and not to flood the market.”
Saudi Arabia has 33 percent of the
world’s known oil reserves.
Carter secures
UAW support
United Press International
President Carter was philosophical ab
out the bad news from New York’s Liberal
Party, but he hopes it could be offset with
good news from Detroit.
The big United Auto Workers voted
overwhelmingly to endorse him for re-
election, and President Douglas Fraser
promised Sunday, “The full resources of
our union will be mobilized to defeat
Ronald Reagan.”
The UAW’s secret ballot vote by nearly
3,400 local union leaders gave Carter 89
percent to 3 percent for Republican
Reagan, 2 percent for independent John
Anderson, 2 percent for Citizens Party can
didate Barry Commoner and 4 percent for
no endorsement.
But the decision of Liberal Party leaders
to urge Anderson’s endorsement was a
blow. It would be the first time in its 36-
year history the party failed to support a
Democratic president, and it appeared cer
tain to cost Carter thousands of votes that
could mean the difference in a close elec
tion for the state’s 41 electoral votes.
When asked about it by reporters on his
return to the White House from Camp
David Sunday, Carter did not appear taken
aback. “We ll try to win anyway,” he said.
Reagan began a five-day campaign trip
Sunday in Philadelphia, with Kokomo,
Ind., and Chicago on his schedule today.
The Republican nominee began his trip
by attending a “Super Senior Sunday” gala,
and in a speech promised that Social Secur
ity will be “strong and reliable and pro
tected” if he becomes president.
While Reagan spoke, Carter-Mondale
volunteers mingled with the crowd and dis
tributed accounts of Reagan’s past state
ments on Social Security, including a sug
gestion that parts of the system be made
voluntary.
Reagan was asked last week if he had
ever proposed making Social Security
voluntary, and he replied, “I have never
said such a thing, never in my life.
Sunday, he noted that the system is “the
foundation of the economic life of millions
of Americans. ”
The crowd, estimated at more than
1,500, cheered as the Republican nominee
danced on the podium with his wife, Nan
cy, to the strains of “In the Mood.
Later, at a pep talk at St. Joseph’s Uni
versity, Reagan — briefly interrupted by a
few young people chanting, “Christ is bet
rayed by nuclear weapons” — asked, “Is
there anyone in the world who does not
believe that Christ is betrayed any time we
find ourselves embroiled in that greatest of
man’s stupidity — war against our fellow
man?”
He got a standing ovation.
Anderson appeared on ABC’s “Issues
and Answers,’ saying Reagan “treated the
country to the rather unedifying spectacle
last week of hearing the president of the
United States being labeled a security
risk.”
“I haven’t done that,” Anderson said, but
he added his regrets that the secretaries of
state and defense had become involved in a
“strictly political campaign” in recent
weeks.
“Traditionally, under administrations of
both Republican and Democratic presi
dents alike, we haven’t involved those two
departments, I think, he said.
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United Press International
HOUSTON — House Speaker Billy
Clayton goes on trial Tuesday in the first
Irilab case, believing he can stay out of jail
and avoid political ruin by arguing he was
the victim of a fast-taking con man who all
hut forced him to take $5,000.
Clayton and his attorneys will be facing
■TBI tapes, agents and an informer who
(thrust the money on him last November at
the state Capitol.
Clayton is confident he will be acquitted,
despite admitting he kept the informant’s
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United Press International
PEKING — Under pressure from
moderate opponents, Premier Hua
Guofeng resigned Sunday and hand
ed China’s top government job to
economist Zhao Ziyang in a major
shake-up designed to create a new
collective leadership of more vigor
ous leaders.
Seven elderly vice premiers, in
cluding strongman Deng Xiaoping,
also resigned voluntarily or in dis
grace in the reshuffle announced by
Hua in his last state of the union
address to the National Peoples Con
gress.
Vice Premier Zhao, 61, a charis
matic economist who was chosen by
Deng to work an “economic miracle”
with China’s ailing economy, is the
fastest rising star in Chinese politics.
But underscoring the undoubted
animosity between the two groups,
Hua virtually ignored him during his
speech, saying briefly “The party
central committee believes that
Zhao Ziyang is a suitable choice and
worthy of trust.”
Hua’s long anticipated resignation
was a major victory for Deng after
months of bitter behind the scenes
political infighting. It set the stage
for a second showdown later this year
between the two men for control of
the ruling Communist Party.
Brilab trial to start Tuesday
“political contribution” for months while
planning all the time to return it when
convenient.
The three-term speaker will be tried
with two Austin lawyers who prosecutors
said aided and abetted the government-
inspired scheme to bribe Clayton by
buying his influence in the handling of a
$76 million insurance policy for state em
ployees.
U. S. District Judge Robert O’Conor Fri
day postponed the start of the trial until
Tuesday because attorneys disagreed on
the exact wording in some of the FBI tapes
for preparing transcripts.
Buffeted by O’Conor’s expressing “grave
concerns” about the government’s motives
and tactics during a seven-day hearing last
month, prosecutors already have exposed
possibly their strongest evidence — a tape
recording in which the money changes
hands and an FBI agent who said Clayton
denied receiving any cash as late as Feb
ruary.
Clayton believes he can hurdle those ob
stacles by arguing the money was forced
upon him by a fast-talking con man in the
presence of a political ally whom Clayton
sought not to embarrass.
As for telling the FBI agent that he didn't
accept anything, Clayton says he will have
to depend on a jury sympathetic to his
claim that he considered the November
meeting so insignificant and so brief that he
was startled and confused by the agent’s
questions.
“Nothing was received in the way of quid
pro quo (this for that),” Clayton said. “You
have to understand his (the FBI agent’s)
questions. I wish they had been taped.
Basically it was ‘were you given something
to do something?’ My contention is I did
not take any money for doing any particular
thing. I just didn’t.”
Prosecutors will argue Clayton violated
the law when he failed to report the cash
contribution but defense attorneys claim
that only supports the wealthy Spring Lake
farmer’s contention that he never intended
to keep the money.
Clayton’s lawyers are determined to
force jurors to contrast Clayton’s behavior
and personality with that of the FBI infor
mant dispatched from California to find
labor and political officials willing to accept
bribes.
The informant, Joseph Hauser, is a
twice-convicted racketeer who has looted
insurance companies and trust funds from
Florida to Massachusetts to California but
whose expertise in under-the-table deal
making so impressed the government that
he was paid $65,000 in salary and expenses
to “ferret out” corrupt officials.
Hauser’s operation moved from Los
Angeles to Texas after word spread among
his associates that he was an informant.
After calling old friend and Waco insurance
exeuctive Bernard Rapaport and claiming
that his legal problems were behind him, a
series of introductions led Hauser to L.G.
Moore, a five-state representative for the
Union of Operating Engineers of suburban
Houston.
New year for Blatchley’s new team
Student Affairs shifts personnel
By LIZ NEWLIN
Battalion Staff
From his athletic build and the Aggie
football schedule prominent on his office
wall, you’d guess Ron Blatchley admires
team play.
He does.
And now he says his own “team,” the
Department of Student Affairs, is finally
shaping up — after a summer of moves,
terminations and hirings.
“For the first time I can honestly say I’m
beginning to feel confident with our team, ”
Blatchley said. He became acting director
of the 350-employee department in sum
mer 1978 and permanent director in Janu
ary 1979.
He made his first changes in the depart
ment last summer, he said, with the under
standing they would be re-evaluated a year
later.
“Some of our people chose to go on, ” he
said of the recent changes. “Then I wanted
to do some further shuffling. I’ve never
been very bashful about that.”
Six new people were hired over the sum
mer, including Bill Kibler, the new assis
tant director in charge of discipline. He
takes the job of Jerry Mainord, who went to
Moody College in Galveston to supervise
the Corps of Cadets there.
Larry Pollack was terminated as coordi
nator of housing services and he has been
replaced by Ron Hilton, formerly an assis
tant coordinator for the Corps.
Four of the new employees are assistant
area coordinators, two for south and two
for north area dorms.
One of the spots, an additional assistant
area coordinator for the north side, was just
created. The other, off campus student
advisor, was vacated by Dena Todd, who
became coordinator of special services.
Blatchley said important parts of his
team are the student resident advisors and
head RAs. Because of that, he said, he’s
looking for staffers who can work well with
students.
The selection process is designed to find
that type of student affairs professional, he
said. Blatchley interviews a prospective
employee, but so do the other 15 or so
professional staffers in the department.
They evaluate the applicant using a form
that is returned to the “hiring agent,” the
person who would supervise the applicant
in the job.
photo by Becky Swanson
Never strikes twice
Physical plant workers remove loose brickwork from the northwest cor
ner of Dorm 7 after it was struck by lightning Sunday afternoon. Debris
from the building was scattered across to the dorms on the opposite side of
the Corps area.