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Yet after adjusting for inflation, those higher prices of the next de cade will still amount to only 60 to 80 percent of the peak price of oil es tablished in 1981, according to an advance copy of the study by econo mists Stephen Brown and Keith Phillips of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The economists predicted that the 1990s will be a decade of slower eco nomic growth in the United States because of higher oil prices. “It won’t be as bad as the ’70s where we saw sharp price increases that really nailed the economy,” Brown said. “But people planning on building big cars in the next de cade may be headed in the wrong di rection.” Brown and Phillips contend that falling demand for oil in the 1980s has had more to do with the collapse in oil prices than the disarray in the Organization of Petroleum Export ing Countries. The economists forecast a strong growth in the demand for oil in the next decade. “Under nearly all of our scenar ios, the growth in oil consumption pushes OPEC close to full capacity between late 1992 and early 1995,” said the study, which will be pub lished in January. “As OPEC nears full capacity, prices are likely to rise sharply.” By 1992, oil prices should begin rising. And by the year 2000, oil prices will reach $35 to $40 — or more than double the current level, they said. The study assumes no major dis ruptions in oil production or artifi cial pushes, such as a resumption of the Iran-Iraq war or a sharp tax in crease on oil. “Rising oil prices will streni economic growth in energy-exm ing countries while hindering j nomic growth in energy-i countries like the United States, study said. Brown said, “1 really don’tti we’ll see a return to theboomt: of 1981 in the oil industry, should see some increases as earls ’92, barring OPEC action,; nitely by ’95. By 1995, the price,I have to be in the neighborhooi| $25 because of the demand.” And as in the past, the effectsJ cut unevenly through thiscotintrl Energy-producing regions. Texas and Louisiana, will njod and energy-consuming regions; the Northeast and heavy in areas, will suffer. Currently, production of oil ceeds worldwide demand, gering the fall in prices toatatl] a barrel. Court sentences sister-in-lav of Pakistan Premier Bhutto BEAT THE HELL OUTTA * FINALS * GRASSE, France (AP) — A crimi nal court Monday sentenced the sis ter-in-law of Pakistan Premier Bena zir Bhutto to two years in prison after convicting her in connection with her husband’s death. Rehana Bhutto is living in the United States and did not appear at her own trial to face charges of “non-assistance to a person in dan ger.” The charges stem from the poi soning death of her husband, Shah Nawaz Bhutto, in July 1985 at the couple’s apartment in Cannes on the Riviera. At the time, nearly the whole Bhutto family were living in exile on the French Mediterranean coast, in cluding the widow of former Prime Minister Ali Bhutto who was over thrown and hanged in 1977, his two sons, Shah Nawaz and Murtaza and their wives. body in the room next to hers I hours af ter the poisoning. Shah Narwaz, who was a leader of the Pakistani opposition, apparently died of poison from a vial he carried for use if he was caught by his ene mies, testimony revealed. In her initial interrogation,! told investigators she heard herb hand moaning in his rooml)iit|i no attention because she' with him. She was jailed for nearlv: months while police investigate case. Rehana Bhutto discovered his Then, because the charges minor, she was released so shek be with her child in the UrrJ States. Records show suspect also beneficiary LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Lake Charles man suspected of kill ing his wife is the main beneficiary of $310,000 in life insurance, but a federal court will decide who actu ally gets the money. Court records show Dallas-based The Life Insurance Co. of the Southwest paid $310,000 on two life insurance claims on Monday. Robert W. Fisher was named the main beneficiary of the policies on Tamara Fisher’s life. The money was paid to U.S. Dis trict Court in Lake Charles. The money will remain there until the court determines who is entitled to the money, according to the court order signed Monday. Fisher is to be tried early next year for the August 1987 shooting of his wife. He had surrendered to police, but he later jumped bail and left the state. He was caught in California after a story about his wife’s death aired on the television program “Ameri ca’s Most Wanted.” The insurance company asked to pay the claims into the court regis try, and U.S. District Judge Edwin Hunter ordered the clerk of court to accept the money and hold it until the case is settled. The insurer filed a lawsuit against Fisher and James E. Cook, the provi sional administrator of Mrs. Fisher’s estate. Cook is listed in court documents as the father of Mrs. Fisher’s two children from a previous marriage. Communist China sends interns to U.S, to learn about NYSE NEW YORK (AP) — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev plans to cruise past the New York Stock Exchange in a motorcade, but his Chinese Communist rivals got the jump on him. A trio from the People’s Re public of China has been training in the heart of high-stakes capital ism for two months. The interns from the People’s Bank of China are guests of the nation’s largest stock exchange, sent as part of a cooperation pact signed two years ago enabling the Chinese to study how a sophisti cated securities market works. The Peking government began tolerating limited stock and bond trading in 1985 after a 35-year ban of what was considered im moral speculation that benefited the rich. The official position now is that buying and selling securi ties play a useful role in the coun try’s modernization. “We’re only in the very begin ning,” said Zhang Zhiping, 32, a senior official in the People’s Bank’s financial control depart ment, the rough equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Com mission because it regulates where and what type of securities can be sold. “We have to develop trading firms and brokers, skilled profes sionals,” Zhang said. “We have to educate the people on what is a stock. We have to develop compa nies that issue securities. We hai(| to change all the systems. “In China, if you want tot something, it takes a lone time I You can’t build Rome in a day. 1 Zhang and his two colleague' I Duan Jining, 28, and Han jiauj jun, 33, spoke highly of theire\ I perience in the heart of the Wall Street jungle, where just in tit I past few months they have *[ nessed some of the biggest cor porate takeover brawls inhiston the anniversary of the Monday crash and the noriwll barrage of market gossip thattn | tiers thrive on. “We don’t have such takeovei| business in China,” said Han,, executive in the People's Bai branch on southern Hainan 1 land, a special zone for forei| trade and investment. “Thegoij ernment tells one company tobinl another company. Bankersdonil play much of a role.” Although primitive over-tit'I counter markets for trading cot | pany-issued securities have! sanctioned in about 70 Chii«| cities, there is no structure! few laws over how they operaif | the three bankers said. 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