Monday, November 28,1988
The Battalion
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Support-
Js of the opposition Democratic
fijont were occupying city halls in
He state of Michoacan on Sunday,
manding the resignation of the
iling Institutional Revolutionary
irty’s governor, state officials said.
Opposition supporters entered 19
;y halls Saturday afternoon to de-
ind Gov. Luis Martinez Villicana’s
missal, according to a statement
leased by the state government.
The government newspaper El
idonal quoted opposition leader
ardano Razo Amezcua as saying
at Villicana had squandered the
iblic treasury and fomented politi-
^1 hatred in Michoacan.
The newspaper quoted Razo
nezcua as saying the seizures had
lothing to do with the Dec. 1 inau-
I ration of President-elect Carlos
linas de Gortari.
Salinas was the ruling Institutio-
Ml Revolutionary Party’s victorious
[candidate in disputed elections on
Hly 6; the runner-up, Democratic
front candidate Cuauhtemoc Car-
nas, did well in Michoacan.
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ess office paper said the city halls
re seized by members of the Au-
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The official said that the munici
pal buildings seized were all in small
towns and that most of the occupy
ing groups were also small. He said
only 10 people were at the city hall in
Tocumba but about 800 had occu
pied the building at Zacapu.
Police in Tocumba and Jiquilpan
said that their city halls were not oc
cupied Sunday afternoon, but that
crowds were gathered outside. The
state official in Morelia said that sev
eral attempted occupations had
failed.
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“State authorities will not and can
not accept this insane pressure, nor
any other provocation,” state gov
ernment secretary Genevevo Figue
roa Zamudio said in a statement.
Figueroa Zamudio accused oppo
sition supporters of letting prisoners
out of some city jails and said that he
thought the seizures were only the
first of a series of provocations
planned by the opposition in the
next few days.
What the opposition wants, said
Figueroa Zamudio, is to provoke a
vigorous response from authorities
that could be painted as repressive,
thus making themselves martyrs and
victims.
“That they
statement said.
will not get,” the
Opposition senator Cristobal
Arias said the only objective of the
protests was to achieve Martinez Vil
licana’s dismissal, according to the
Mexico City newspaper La Jornada.
Bush chooses top advisers
with history of friendship
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine
(AP) —George Bush’s top advisers
are mostly longtime friends and loy
alists whom he trusted for strategy
during his campaign and to whom
he now turns for advice as president
elect.
But on Monday, Bush will have to
reach beyond this inner circle to try
to forge a working relationship with
a former political rival, Senate Mi
nority Leader Robert Dole of Kan
sas.
The meeting could be an early test
of Bush’s ability to work with those
outside his core of associates in deal
ing with Congress.
The two are to meet for lunch in
Bush’s vice presidential office in Ex
ecutive Office Building next to the
White House. Bush was returning to
Washington Sunday after spending
a four-day Thanksgiving vacation in
Maine.
There is one new face in Bush’s
inner circle — New Hampshire Gov.
John Sununu, who will be White
House chief-of-staff. Otherwise,
Bush’s closest associates are for the
most part those who advised him
during the campaign —James A.
Baker III, Nicholas Brady, Lee At
water, Robert Teeter and Robert
Mosbacher.
Some members of Bush’s inner
circle have already been rewarded
for their loyalty with Cabinet posts,
including Baker, who will be secre
tary of state.
Bush prides himself on the loyalty
he showed as vice president for eight
years to President Reagan, and he
clearly values the trait in others.
Baker, 58, is one of Bush’s best
friends. The friendship goes back
more than two decades to when they
forged a social and political alliance
in Houston — Baker, a lawyer, and
Bush, then an oil man.
Another longtime Bush friend al
ready holding a Cabinet post is
Treasury Secretary Brady — whom
Reagan chose in August to fill the
vacancy created when Baker re
signed to oversee Bush’s general
election campaign.
OPEC agreement
thrown into peril
by price dispute
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A
new OPEC accord to limit pro
duction appeared to be unravel
ing Sunday after Saudi Arabia
pressed for a $15-a-barrel bench
mark price, $3 less than the car
tel’s official level, officials said.
“Iran is not going to accept this
type of idea,” said F. Barkeshli, a
senior Iranian delegate to the
winter conference of the 13-na
tion Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries.
The proposal, he said, “can to
tally sabotage the agreement.”
He said Algeria, Nigeria and
Libya also opposed changing the
$18 benchmark. Barkeshli said he
met for two hours Sunday with
OPEC President Rilwanu Luk-
man of Nigeria, but said af
terward: “I am very pessimistic.”
Iran’s oil minister, Gholamreza
Aghazadeh, announced in Teh
ran earlier Sunday that he would
accept the deal to cut the cartel’s
output and drive up prices.
But Barkeshli said Aghazadeh
agreed to a preliminary draft that
would retain OPEC’s $18 bench
mark.
The announcement last week
that the ministers tentatively
reached a new output pact sent
prices higher. Brent North Sea
crude rose $1.65 a barrel to close
Friday at $14.42.
Prices have been running $4 or
more below the $ 18 target due to
a world oil glut.
Each $ 1 rise in the price of
crude oil theoretically means an
increase of 2.5 cents a gallon in
retail gasoline prices, although oil
companies do not always pass
along the full increase.
The agreement, which would
set member quotas, would cut
OPEC production from the cur
rent estimated 22.5 million bar
rels a day to 18.5 million barrels a
day in the first half of next year.
Barkeshli told reporters that
Saudi Arabia made two proposals
Sunday morning.
The Iranian delegate said one
would set a target price at $15 a
barrel and the other would set a
price band ranging from $15 to
$18. This, he said, “is a major di
vergence from OPEC resolutions
so far.”
“We’re not going to concede to
any new elements whatsoever,”
he said.
Barkeshli said the plan worked
out with Aghazadeh “did not
have anything like $15” and that
the Iranian Cabinet approved the
original draft with the $18 refer
ence price.
Aghazadeh left Vienna Friday
to try to sell the package to his
government. Barkeshli said Ag
hazadeh will not return to
Vienna.
The OPEC ministers were
scheduled to resume their formal
discussions Sunday but no time
was announced.
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