THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1980
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United Press International
KUWAIT — OPEC Oil ministers confirmed Monday
that they will talk of future oil prices in Bali, Indonesia,
nixt Monday despite dissension over the Iran-Iraq war,
■cording to a United Press International survey.
■ The poll of Arab oil ministers at the opening meeting
ofllie Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Coun-
tijes indicated the threatened price talks will proceed as
scheduled despite an appeal by United Arab Emirates
Oil Minister Mana Said al-Otaiba to postpone the meet-
iifc because of the Iran-Iraq war.
JIraq’s Oil Minister Tayeh Abdel Kerim said his coun-
ti| had rebounded from the early effects of the war and
p|s exporting more than 1 million barrels of oil daily
through pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea. He spoke
tareporters on his way to the opening meeting of OPEC
at the tightly guarded Kuwait Hilton.
Blhe Arab oil ministers, who do not have the authority
1 to set oil prices, appeared sharply divided about
whether all OPEC members should raise crude prices
when they meet in Bali.
Gang of Four’
trials continue
Otaiba said he favored holding OPEC rates at the
present $30 per barrel floor and $37 per barrel ceiling.
But Libya’s Oil Minister Abdussalam Zagaar told re
porters that oil market conditions could not justify a
price freeze.
“Indicators are not pointing in that direction,” said
Zagaar.
Qatar’s Oil Minister Abdel Aziz Khalifa al-Thani also
urged increases in OPEC rates.
“We are for a moderate price increase,” he said.
Abdel Kerim said Iraq is exporting the estimated 1
million barrels of crude oil per day through pipelines to
the Mediterranean Sea. The crude oil, he said, was
being exported “through the capacity of the Iraqi-
Turkish pipeline and what is available in the Iraqi-
Syrian-Lebanese pipeline.
Present for OPEC’s one-day meeting are the oil
ministers from Kuwait, Qatar, Syria, Libya, Saudi Ara
bia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Iraq.
Algeria will be represented by a lower-ranking offi
cial.
United Press International
GDANSK, Poland — Poland’s
official army newspaper said Monday
that months of unrest threaten the
nation’s defenses, and the Commun
ist Party must be “liberated ... from
the people who discredit it.”
The editorial in the newspaper
Zolnierz Wolnosci came as the
Soviet news agency Tass, in a dis
patch from Warsaw, charged that
counter-revolutionary groups work
ing under the cover of the indepen
dent union are starting to challenge
the Communist rulers.
The army newspaper said the
Communist Party must be “liberated
from the people who discredit it’’ and
must get rid of the mistakes which
“deformed our socialist system.”
“The state of anxiety among the
people, the threat of strikes or the
attempts to make them in such im
portant fields as railway or car trans
port — all that indirectly hit the de
fense system of the country, ” it said.
“Attempts to paralyze the state’s
power leading to chaos and anarchy
also affect the system of defense. We
warmly support the appeal calling for
a dam to be placed against the escala
tion of anxiety, the end of strikes and
leaflet action and of anarchy.”
The report from the Soviet news
agency was issued one day after the
most ominous United States warning
yet that Soviet troops were poised for
a possible invasion.
Sunday Each Walesa, leader of the
free union movement, announced
plans to visit Polish Pope John Paul
II in Rome early in the new year.
Walesa said he planned the trip for
Jan. 14-19, but an official Polish
source said privately, “The pope
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there is a solution — that is, signs of
definite stabilization in Poland.”
In the Vatican a spokesman for
John Paul said he would see Walesa
when he comes on his visit, and that
it would probably take place Jan. 16.
Tass charged that “counter
revolutionary groups operating
under the cover of local Solidarity
sections are turning to open confron
tation with the Polish United Work
ers Communist Party and with the
administrations of some enterprises
and institutions.”
It reported that a number of Soli
darity Committees are trying to re
place union workers with “persons
who openly adhere to anti-
government positions.”
It said that at the Iskra plant in
Kielce “so-called protectors of the
interests of the workers have dis
placed the administration and dis
armed the plant’s guard. A number
of activists, who expressed at work
ers’ meetings their disagreement
with the demands of the instigators,
are missing. ”
“These and other facts show that
counter-revolution is leading the
situation in the country towards
further destabilization, towards the
aggravation of the political struggle. ”
The Kremlin, while tolerating
Solidarity’s existence, has repeated
ly warned that it would not allow any
undermining of the socialist form of
government in Poland or any threat
to the Communist Party’s place in
the country.
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■PEKING — Yao Wenyuan, the
“Gang of Four” scribe, admitted
grudgingly in court Monday his writ
ings framed a large number of poli
tical enemies, but he argued that he
played only a passive role.
Radio Peking said Yao “confessed
to the crimes he was accused of but
ipeatedly used cunning arguments
to lessen his responsibility. ”
■Yao, who thrived on waging re
volution with his articles, admitted
with reservation that he had scruti-
Ked, edited, or approved a number
of articles that brought “serious con
sequences” to the targets of his
iftacks.
His articles branded large num
bers of party, government, and milit
ary leaders as “capitalist roaders” —
ajgrave charge during the 1966-76
Cultural Revolution when the
Bang,” led by Mao Tse-tung’s
|wido\v Jiang Qung, wielded tremen
dous power.
■ Yao admitted he controlled the
pass media and used them to shape
and control the minds of the public,
turning them against opponents of
|e gang. But he said Mao’s widow
and fellow gang member Zhang
Chunqiao had initiated the frame-
ups. Yao said he had either given his
approval along with others, or mere
ly proofread the draft and disagreed
with the content.
In an earlier hearing Yao had
admitted he played a part in the
framing and persecution of the late
premier Chou En-lai and Deng Xia-
ping, currently the dominant figure
in the leadership.
In the military arm of the special
court, former chief of staff Huang
Yong-sheng tried to shrug off court
allegations that he brought disrepute
to more than 7,100 persons and
death to 85 persons.
“I’ve never heard of such a thing,”
Huang replied. When confronted
with evidence, however, he changed
his plea and said since there is
documentation it must be true.
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