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State / National THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1981 Page 7 n ) ■i o i 3 1 a 3 M N o Busing bill now before Senate United Press International I WASHINGTON — The Justice department would be effectively prevented from trying to desegre gate schools through forced bus ing under a House-passed amend ment now before the Senate. E On a vote of 265-122 Tuesday, the House approved a measure foes said would cripple desegrega tion efforts, but which proponents maintained would only stop an in effective tool that has driven schools “downhill.” Introduced by Rep. Jim Col lins,, R-Texas, the amendment would deny the Justice Depart ment funds to force schools to de segregate by busing. It is identical to one passed by Congress last year but vetoed by President Carter. Approval by the Republican- dominated Senate seems likely. And the mood of the Reagan admi nistration seems to favor the same basic goal. li&st month, Attorney General Wifiiain French Smith announced he would de-emphasizg' forced busing in favor of more creative desegregation efforts. In , speaking in favor of his Conservation creates temporary oil surplus United Press International v ■TULSA, Okla. — American oil companies have been paying $2 less for a barrel of domestic crude oil in recent weeks as conservation measures by motor ists created a temporary surplus of petroleum pro ducts. I, “Apparently people are just driving less,” said Forest Brokaw of Sun Oil in Tulsa. B “Our prices (paid to producers) were lowered in : response to market conditions,” Brokaw said. “Con sumption of petroleum products has declined, creat ing a temporary surplus.” H Sun recently lowered the price it pays for low ; sulphur domestic crude from $38 to $36 a barrel, he said, and dropped the price it is willing to pay for ! high sulphur crude, which is more expensive to re fine, from $36 to $34. | Brokaw and other oil company spokesmen said the short-term surplus was due to conservation, includ ing improved automobile mileage and decreased [driving, plus a mild winter. Although gasoline costs at the pump have dropped a few cents a gallon in many areas of the country, oil | company spokesmen disagreed whether the lower prices for domestic crude was playing any part. ■“Ofcourse we’ll see a change,” said Dick Robinson of Phillips Petroleum Co. in Bartlesville, Okla. “I think we re seeing a decrease at the pumps now. K “I don’t think there was any immediate! decrease (in the price paid by gasoline dealers),” said Kent Young of Cities Service Co. in Tulsa. “It takes awhile foi decreased prices to roll through, then they would just be on a percentage basis for the most part. K “It would only pertain to the part of our crude we buy from U.S. sources. There could be (a dealer decrease), sure, but it’s not going to be all that much,” Young said. H “We can’t talk about prices or what it is going to do to prices,” said Brokaw, “but I can say in most areas I (gas prices) are stabilizing or have dropped slightly. ” | Charles Smith of Getty Oil Co. said Getty had ■decreased the price it pays for crude oil in Kansas and Oklahoma, where Getty purchases almost all its > domestic oil. ■ Smith said Kansas and Oklahoma were the only two states where Getty posts oil prices, but if oil was purchased in other states the price would depend on what competitors were paying. Getty decreased its prices “to match the competi tion,” Smith said. There were no other factors, he said. “The competition’s prices were down,” he said. “It’s the same reason you go up in price. If that’s what it takes to get the product that’s what you do.” “If you pay more you have to get it back in the market or you lose money,” he said. Robinson said causes for the decrease in domestic crude prices are nothing new. “It is not a new situation,” Robinson said. “People are conserving more, for whatever reasons;, and there is a decline in the amount of oil we are import ing and the amount used by people.” A Phillips official said the recent decrease was the company’s first since September 1980. Phillips prices increased approximately $1 per month until President Reagan decontrolled the industry, he said. Oil company officials said the $2 decrease did not affect prices American companies paid for foreign oil, which according to the American Petroleum Insti tute makes up almost 34 percent of the country’s petroleum supply. Many oil companies have unamendable contracts with foreign oil suppliers, officials said. However, Cities Service Co. is attempting to open foreign contracts for re-negotiation, Young said. Most members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries recently froze oil prices for the remainder of the year and agreed to decrease pro duction. American Oil officials agreed the U.S. had a tem porary oil surplus, but said consumers were not actually using less petroleum products than before. The conservation efforts simply resulted in a slower rate* of demand, one official said. "Who knows how long this is going to last?” Young said. The price decrease should not hurt American in centive to seek more domestic oil supplies, he said. “We re still interested in the long term,” Young said. “We re still looking for supplies.” Judge says attorney general can intervene in court suit United Press International 1 HOUSTON — The Texas attorney general has ! been allowed to intervene in a court suit filed by I (Vietnamese refugees to stop harassment by Texas I fishermen and the Ku Klux Klan, but his aim is to I shut down KKK paramilitary camps. U.S. District Judge Gabrielle McDonald on Tues- ; day granted Attorney General Mark White’s petition I 'to intervene, but did not schedule a hearing on his request.,for an order shutting down Klan paramilitary camps. White contends the camps violate Texas law forbidding private armies. White filed the petition, in a iafger lawsuit in which the Vietnamese seek permanent court protec tion frmn illegal harassment, by the Klgn and native fishermen who have complained Texas waters are overcrowded. \''k. £ \F-16s ‘ready ^ for delivery' to Israel 0) [/) ID D 3 D ? D J 1 D 3 D 3 1 United Press International Ejj FORT WORTH — No decision has been made on whether to de- ; lay delivery of four General Dyna- [ mics F-16 fighter planes to Israel, a Defense Department spokes- ; man said Wednesday. The fighters, built in Fort | Worth, are similar to those used in I Isreal’s attack on an Iraqi nuclear r reactor this week. 1 ‘The matter is not in our bands,” General Dynamics ■ spokesman Rob Mack said. “The | planes are ready for delivery. We I only manufacture the planes. It is f the U.S. Air Force which delivers 1 them.” The four planes had been sche duled for delivery Friday. Reports ^ had indicated the delivery may be | delayed while the Reagan admi- I nistration studied implications of I the Israeli raid on the Iraqi reactor I?last Sunday. Under Foreign Military Sales I |Act, the president has the author- I jity to suspend the Israeli arms I sales because the act prohibits I - U.S. weapons from being used for I purposes other than national or re- | gional defense. “I don’t have any information and as far as I know no decision has been taken to delay or not to delay the delivery (of the F-16 planes),” Lt. Col. Mark Foutch, Defense Department spokesman, said. The decision would be made by the State Department, he said. General Dynamics already has dispatched 53 planes to Israel. Mack said the four F-16s were still at the Fort Worth plant as of Wednesday morning. However, he said the planes could still be delivered in the next two days. FREE! Medium Size (16 oz.) 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The language bars any of the money appropriated from being used “to bring any sort of action to require directly or indirectly the transportation of any student to a school other thati the school which is nearest to the student’s home.” “Until we can deal with the problem with a constitutional amendment, the amendment is the next best step,” said Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Mo. But Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., argued Congress, has directed the Justice Department to act in cases where constitutional rights- are! violated, and an amendment bar ring the agency from initiating def segregation suits involving busing prevent it, from carrying out that responsibility. Rodino said Collins’ amendj- ment “may sound as. though it i!s not designed to violate the basic equal educational opportunity rights, but nonetheless that is just what it would do.” “We have got to understand that 17 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and a quarter of a century after Brown (the 1954 Supreme Court deseg regation decision), we still have unlawfully segregated schools in this country,” Rodino said. Hunt says report ignores 3 United Press International a' 'V‘ \ DALLAS — Nelson Bunker Hunt says a recently released Com’ modity. Futures Trading Commission report on, last year’s crash of the silver market ignores evidence of a conflict of interest on the part of futures exchange governors. ; The-CFTC analysis of the causes for the drop in silver prices — from $50 per ounce to $10.80 pef ounce by March 27 — prompted Hunt’s criticism. He claims his family eventually faced $1.7 billion in silver debts and he charges Commodities Exchange officials acted in their own interest. Hunt called on the CFTC to. continue to’ analyze the New; York-based Commodities Exchangeand the silver holdings of mem bers of its board of governors. “Material in the (commission’s report) [contradicts the report’s own conclusion, and in fact supports the* claim that some of the exchange board members protected themselve's from losses in the market and ended up with a profit because of the rules changes they, made,” he said. . - ( The steep drop iri silver prices:left the Hunt’s with an estimated $2.5 billion in paper losses. Their failure to, make a series of margin calls triggered a panic on Wall Street that nearly forced the closing of several major brokerages. 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