Tuesday, December 16, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
Leaders increase pace of talks
to curb output of oil, raise prices
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'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
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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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■ WASHINGTON (AP) — A
federal commission called Mon-
ftty for giving Cabinet officers,
members of Congress and federal
judges respective pay raises of
$71,200, $57,600 and $49,000 a
year atop the annual 3 percent
boosts going to all federal work
ers.
■ The nine-member commission,
chaired by General Foods Corp.
President James L. Ferguson, la
beled as “dangerously inade
quate” the current $70,800-to-
$111,700 salaries of the nation’s
top 3,027 government officials.
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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-
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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
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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
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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. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., who
originated the letter signed by 47
Democrats and 10 Republicans, said
it was in America’s interest to respect
the treaty since the Soviets, who have
more and different types of missiles,
are more constrained by the pact
than is the United States.
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