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Tuesday, December 16, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation Leaders increase pace of talks to curb output of oil, raise prices SCHULMAN THEATRES 2.50 ADMISSION 1. Any Show Before 3 PM 2. Tuesday - AH Seats 3. Mon-Wed - Local Students With Current ID’s. 4. Thurs. - KORA “Over 30 Nite” •DENOTtS DOLBY STEREO 'J 1 -.' PLAZA 3 226 Southwest Pkwy 693-2457 * CROCODILE DUNDEE ps is 7:40 9:55 ‘THE GOLDEN CHILD pg-is 7:451 8:451 BRIN& THE WIMP BUCKEYE fii' 'LL. TAKE j pDENEVA (AP) — OPEC leaders stepped up THE HALFTlft the pace of negotiations Monday over cutting oil TOO/ -//production to raise prices but fell short of a final ' accord, officials said. !l ; Rilwanu Lukman, the OPEC president and chief Nigerian delegate, told reporters the cartel was close to an agreement on individual produc tion quotas. He declined to provide any details of the day’s talks. ■Officials said the 13 Organization of Petro leum Exporting Countries ministers would meet again Tuesday afternoon, but no specific hour was set. - T/vijn *riie Venezuelan oil minister, Arturo Hernan- dez Grisanti, said without elaborating, “We are \ moving.” 1 /vBr* ne delegation source who was present dur- ^ ing Monday’s 2-hour plenary session said the key -Cr- * THREE AMIGOS pg MANOR EAST 3 7:301 9:351 obstacle to agreement on cutting oil production was Iraq’s refusal to accept a quota lower than that of its war enemy Iran. In an apparent sign of Iraq’s displeasure, its oil minister, Q ass im Taki al-Oraibi, did not attend the meeting although he was in the same hotel where the closed-door talks were held. His dele gation was headed by his deputy, Ramzi Salmon Abdul Hussain, according to sources. Several ministers attempted to paint a bright picture of what has lapsed into a lengthy and dif ficult negotiation. Mana Saeed Oteiba, the oil minister of the United Arab Emirates, told reporters, “We are not very far from the agreement. We have com pleted the cosmetic surgery and now we are ap plying the makeup.” Oteiba, a key figure in the talks, previously had predicted an agreement by last Saturday but was proven wrong. Despite a deadlock over key elements of the production-cutting plan, world oil markets ap peared convinced that OPEC would seal a deal shortly. In Western Europe, the price of North Sea Brent crude oil for January delivery jumped about 40 cents, to a nine-month high of $16.10 a barrel. Later, the January contract for West Texas Intermediate — the benchmark grade of U.S. crude — climbed 26 cents to $16.36 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. “The market seems quite optimistic that the Saudis will pull the rest of OPEC into line,” said Stephen Turner, an oil analyst at the investment firm of Wood, Mackenzie and Co. in Edinburgh, Scotland. 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Ferguson, la beled as “dangerously inade quate” the current $70,800-to- $111,700 salaries of the nation’s top 3,027 government officials. B “No group . . . has fallen so far behind inflation as those to whom ie entrust the reins of govern ment,” said the panel, known for mally as the Commission on Exec utive, Legislative and Judicial laries. I It said the buying power of top federal officials, after accounting for inflation, has declined 41 per cent since 1969, compared with only a 5.7 percent drop for lower- • . #« Vlil 1 44 • f | /V 1 V_. 114 \ 1 I ' ' | ' 1V/1 htstick ‘ r level government workers. During the same period, the pnel said, the real, inflation-ad- justed income of automobile me chanics and electricians has climbed 33.5 percent and 40.4 percent, respectively, f; The recommended increases, if included by President Reagan in his proposed fiscal 1988 bud get to be submitted to Congress on Jan. 5, would boost the pay of his 16 Cabinet members by 80 percent, the 535 senators and represenatives by 73 percent and the 821 federal judges by 60 per cent. Reagan urged by Senate to stick with SALTII arms limit 2002 E. 29th 775-2463 TOUCH AND GO r SOLAR BABIES po-ia 7:35 KKYS 105 Presents $ DOLLAR DAYS $ This Week's Features Are: STAND BY ME* 7:30 9:40 TOUGH GUYS pg 7:20 9:45 COLOR OF MONEY r 7:15 9:35 CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD r 7:15 9:55 TOP GUN r 7:10 9:40 WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of the incoming Senate urged President Reagan on Monday to put the United States back under the limits of the SALT II nuclear arms-control treaty that the United States breached last month. The letter was signed by 57 of the 100 members of the Senate that con venes next month. It said the U.S. action was an “open invitation to the Soviets” to violate several of the nu merical limits in the treaty. It was the latest expression of con gressional unhappiness with the ad ministration’s Nov. 28 action when the latest B-52 bomber equipped to carry nuclear-tipped cruise missiles became operational. That was the 131st B-52 to be con verted. It put the United States above the numerical limits in the un ratified 1979 treaty because the Pen tagon did not eliminate any existing weapons from the U.S. arsenal. Re tirement of current weapons would put the United States back under treaty limits. House Democrats last week ap proved a resolution criticizing Rea gan’s action and pledged to try to get the Democratic-controlled chamber to reverse the decision when Con gress convenes next month. Because SALT II was never rati fied by the Senate, it has never been binding on the United States, but both superpowers agreed to abide by its terms. The treaty covers a wide range of strategic weapons issues, in- on various types of as bombers, subma- missiles and land- eluding limits weapons such rine-launched based missiles. Reagan criticized the pact as “fa tally flawed” during the 1980 presi dential campaign. But once in office, he pledged to live up to its limits as long as the Soviets did likewise. The president has charged the So viets have repeatedly violated the treaty. Sen. 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'85 Mercedes owner Professional Car Services Driven Toward Excellence Families win more than $50,000 in suit over ‘offensive’ textbooks GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge awarded more than $50,000 Monday to seven funda mentalist Christian families who paid to send their children to private schools so they would not have to read public school texts the parents found religiously offensive. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Thomas G. Hull brought promises of an appeal from Hawkins County school board attorney Nat Coleman, who said the decision amounts to public funding of religious educa tion. “He’s requiring the school board to pay tuition for these children at a Christian school,” Coleman said. Hull ordered the families be paid $50,521.59 to reimburse them for tuition, school lunches, mileage to and from school and the parents’ lost wages while attending deposi tions and court sessions. “The amount is not important,” Coleman said. “The constitutional question is, and that will be the basis of our appeal.” The parents originally sought $53,171.59 in out-of-pocket ex penses. Hull ruled Oct. 24 that the school board violated the families’ civil rights by forcing their children to re main in reading classes when their parents believed their religious be liefs were being undermined by material in the 1983 edition of the Holt, Rinehart, Winston reading se ries. The families said the books taught evolution, the occult, secular hu manism and 13 other anti-religious themes. Hull, in his October ruling, cleared the way for the children to return to public schools and not at tend classes for reading, which could be taught at home. 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