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Royal oil found beneath ^Windsor castle
LONDON (AP) — The royal
soap opera threatens to take
the full “Dallas” route as Queen
Elizabeth II goes drilling for oil
beneath Windsor Castle.
In this week’s exciting
episode: Will Charles divorce
Di? Whose book is selling bet
ter? And has anyone got a home
for Fergie?
News of a possible royal
gusher came Tuesday, punctu
ating a week that began with
opposition politicians calling for
a less flashy monarchy, and
which could end with an an
nouncement of a divorce.
A Canadian entrepreneur
says seismic studies indicate
the likelihood of a small oil
field 1,000 feet beneath Wind
sor Castle, the queen’s week
end home 20 miles west of the
capital. The queen has given
Canuk Exploration Ltd. per
mission to sink a well in her
garden to test reserves.
“In any other location, it
would have been tested years
ago. But nobody previously has
had the courage,” said
Desmond Oswald, Canuk’s
managing director.
Oswald has estimated from
seismic data that $1.5 billion
worth of oil may be pooled un
der the palace — but added it
was unlikely the venture would
be profitable.
The discovery is well-timed:
the British royal family is un
der pressure to reduce its pub
lic role and cut costs.
Oil potentially could save
Queen Elizabeth from becoming
a “bicycling monarch” — the sad
fate forecast for her by govern
ment ministers if the Labor Par
ty ever gets into government.
Labor leaders called this
week for a smaller, less lavish
monarchy, with fewer family
members on the public payroll.
Even if commercial reserves
are found, the government will
have first dibs on any oil royal
ties because the castle — badly
damaged by fire in 1992 — is
maintained at public expense.
Berkshire County Council is
expected to give formal zoning
permission for the test well Jan.
4, despite local anguish about
damage to the 900-year-old cas
tle and its wooded grounds.
Dennis Otwin, lord mayor of
the Royal Borough of Windsor
and Maidenhead, worried that
drilling was “bound to lead to
Windsor Great Park being
turned almost into a
second Dallas.”
Oil was a surprising turn in
the saga of a family whose royal
motto might well be,
“What next?”
As of Friday, the second an
niversary of their separation,
FYince Charles and Princess Di
ana will be free to seek a no
fault divorce.
They have not announced
plans to do so, content for now
to do battle in the bookstores.
Diana is winning in both sales
and sympathy.
“Diana: Her New Life,” an
account by Andrew Morton
based on interviews with the
princess’s friends, portrays
Charles as cold and unfaithful,
Diana as lonely and flaky. It is
third on the best-seller list, a
notch ahead of “The Prince of
Wales” in which Charles admit
ted his infidelity.
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Proposal to help disabled presidents keep order
WASHINGTON (AP) — Outside doctors,
not political associates, should decide whether
the president is too ill to stay in office, Jimmy
Carter says. His proposal comes just weeks af
ter Ronald Reagan’s disclosure that he has
Alzheimer’s disease.
Carter announced that he has summoned a
group to meet at the Carter Center in Atlanta
to study the issue. He said he expected the
meeting to produce “some concrete proposals
and a commission to develop them further and
to work toward implementing them.”
The determination on a president’s fitness
now would be made by the vice president and
the Cabinet.
“Many people have called to my atten
tion the continuing danger to our nation
from the possibility of a U.S. president be
coming disabled, particularly by a neuro
logic illness,” Carter wrote in an issue of
the weekly Journal of the American Med
ical Association that examines the question
of presidential disability.
Clinton made no mention of Reagan’s con
dition. In Minneapolis, Dr. Steve Miles, a pro
fessor of geriatric medicine at the University
of Minnesota, recently wrote a newspaper ar
ticle saying that he and other geriatricians
were concerned during Reagan’s presidency
by his behavior.
Miles said he and his colleagues even
considered appealing publicly for an exami
nation of Reagan to see if he was suffering
from Alzheimer’s but decided to do nothing
“given White House medical reports that
all was well.”
“We were concerned by the increasing
vagueness of his presidency, his inability to
speak lucidly outside of brief, tightly con
trolled settings,” Miles wrote in the Star Tri
bune of Minneapolis.
When Reagan, 83, disclosed his problem
"Many people have called to
my attention the danger to our
nation from the possibility of a
president becoming disabled."
—Jimmy Carter, former President
last month, his doctors said he was “entering
the early stages of this disease.” Reagan has
been out of office since January 1989.
Carter’s proposal apparently could be
accomplished without amending the Con
stitution to change the 25th Amendment,
adopted in 1967 to deal with presidential
disability.
It says that the vice president and a major
ity of the Cabinet “or of such other body as
Congress may by law provide,” can temporari
ly transfer the powers of the president to the
vice president when the group determines
that the president is unable to function. If the
president resists, it would require a two-thirds
vote of each house of Congress to keep him
from resuming power.
Congress has not designated any other
body to make the judgment. That part of the
25th Amendment has never been used.
Carter said that as a practical matter th ;
vice president and the Cabinet would rely on
the president’s personal physicians.
“We must find a better way,” Carter wrote.
“This might be by creating a nonpartisan
group of expert representatives of the medical
community who are not directly involved in
the case of the president. They could be given
the responsibility for determining disability,
thereby relieving the president’s physicians
from their potential conflict of interest and en
abling the 25th Amendment to work prudent
ly and smoothly.”
Carter called on the medical community to
“awaken the public and political leaders of our
nation to the importance and urgency of this
problem.”
He noted that most of the 18 presidents
serving this century had serious medical
problems.
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