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Post Oak Mall 696-6159 Freedom Blvd. (across from Super Walmart in Bryan) 774-9699 xn-- I I RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) —Gulf Arab states are leaning toward a slight in crease in oil production to lower prices, officials said Wednesday after a meeting ofGulf oil ministers. In a closing statement, the ministers called for a stable market, but gave little away on what position they would adopt at next month’s meeting of the 11 -mem ber Organization of Petroleum Export ing Countries in Vienna. “The ministers stressed their coun tries’ desire to maintain the market’s sta bility in the coming period in coopera tion with other producing nations,” the statement said. The skyrocketing price of oil, which has nearly tripled over the past year, has led to spikes in heating oil and gas prices in the United States and prompted calls for the government to tap the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. U.S. offi cials have also lobbied OPEC and non- OPEC countries to increase oil produc tion to alleviate the high energy costs. Gulf officials said Wednesday the ministers favored an increase in produc tion ofbetween2 million and 2.5 million barrels a day to reach a price ofbetween $20 and $25 a barrel. Oil for delivery in April was trading on the New York Mer cantile Exchange at $29.39 a barrel. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not say how such an increase should be apportioned among OPEC and non-OPEC member states. Officials from Saudi Arabia, which towers over its fellow Gulf states as the world’s largest oil exporter, said their government favored prices at about $20 to $25 a barrel. United Arab Emirates oil minister Obeid bin Saif Al-Nasseri also said $20 to $25 a barrel would be acceptable. However, Kuwait is believed to op pose any production increase. And Iran, the second-largest producer in OPEC, has already come out against a rise in output. The Saudis are scheduled to meet March 2 with Mexico and Venezuela to discuss whether to increase production. Their decision is expected to influence the OPEC meeting on March 27 in Vienna. U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richard son, who is touring the Middle East, said in Cairo on Wednesday that lie would be talking to oil officials in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait about increasing production to ease prices. “We want to see oil prices go down,” Richardson told reporters. “I am going to Kuwait and then Saudi Arabia. These are two nations that are very good friends to the U.S. ... It’s going to be a friendly, positive discussion. I’m not going there to pressure anybody.” His trip was prompted by U.S. con sumer concern over soaring fuel prices. The United States is the world’s biggest oil importer. Fire in the sky CODY WAGES Tm Baii.ui Sheet lightning streaks across College Station skies Wednesday after a thunderstorm. Lightninj continued for hours into the morning. Looking for an Internship? Attend the Internship Strategies seminar. In this seminar participants will learn about strategies and resources available for locating internships and when the time is right for starting the job search! Feb. 1A - 5:20pm - 510 Rudder Career Center 209 Koldus 845-7725 httn://careercen ter.tamu.edu Pope visits Egypt for 1 st tin CAIRO, Egypt (AP)— “It is a beau tiful thing, this visit,” says Adel Abbas, a Muslim caretaker at the old sy nagogue in the crumbling Coptic Christian quar ter known as Babylon, awaiting a Roman Catholic pope. In a fresh millennium. John Paul II comes to holy ground to weave together ancient threads. He arrives Thursday in Cairo, where tradition says Joseph and Mary brought their young son, fleeing the wicked King Herod. Before leaving on Saturday, he visits Mount Sinai, where the Bible says Moses received God’s law chiseled in stone after escaping the pharaohs across a magically parted Red Sea, 13 centuries before Christianity. The Pope in Egypt Pope John Paul M s visit to Egypt. Feb. 24-26. is the first of his planned pilgrimages to religious sites in the Middle East and the first papal visit to Egypt He will meet with the president. Coptic and Muslim leaders and visit Mount Sinai, said to be the place where Moses received the Ten Coriimandments. GAZA STRIP EGYPT Friday, Jeb' 25 '•*"*« Mass at Covered Halls, Cairo's sports palace ^ Ecumenical service at Cathedral of Our Lady of Egypt Thursday, Feb. 24 Arrives Cairo >- Meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak >*■ Visits head of Coptic Orthodox Church. His Holiness Shenouda III. Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark of Cairo Visits Muslim religious leader. His Excellency Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar of Cairo Saturday, Feb. 26 Celebrates private Mass. Departs Cairo for airport of St. Catherine in Sinai Drives to Greek Orthodox monastery. St. Catherine, at the foot of Mount Sinai Liturgical service at foot of Mount Sinai Returns to Cairo and departs for Rome ^ SINAI Source Apostolic Nunciature Washington, D C ,2000 New AP/Wm J Gastello, S. Hoffmann Rarely has a papal visit been so charged with symbolic meaning. This is Cairo, not easily' fazed. Rarely has the pon tiffs imminent arrival caused so little stir. “Cairo made a much bigger deal of Hillary Clinton last year,” says Mag gie Michael, a Copt student at the American University in Cairo. “1 don’t know why, but people aren’t talking about the pope.” Muhammed Fareq, in red coat and shiny buttons, greeted yet another faceless foreigner at the Conrad 1 lotel with heart- wanning insincerity: “All ofEgypt is glad you are here, sir.” When asked his opinion of the pope’s visit, however, the clued-in archetypal doorman looked puzzled. “Who, sir?” Workmen painted Vatican yellow on rusted hoardings by the stadium where the pope is to cel ebrate Mass on Friday. But not one banner, poster, T-shirt or cof fee mug was spotted on a tour of Cairo’s chaotic streets. Deep in the Khan el-Khalili souk, it was business as usual: a raucous bustle of overeager mer chants, wide-eyed tourists, under sized beggars, bootblacks, and in different ifwell-anned police. Men sucked on their water pipes at El Fishawy cafe, imper vious to the lady offering a belly dancing doll in flamenco dress or the man with Barbie doll lamps wrapped in sequin gowns tight enough to offend any religion. In Babylon, al the heart of Christian Cairo, a Muslim woman named Fathia sold her usual gaily painted saints ami! Clauses. She had not heard oftliis: the pope, nor did she know hews, ing to Cairo. Near the stadium. Ahmed Must 21 -year-old computer progras knew someone known as the popt expected, and that he lived soml in Italy. But that was it. "I ven if they don't show it, l: many I igypt ians are excited thaite is coming and are eager to see in their land,” says Kasha Solimaaaw water expert, “ft is important b comes in peace and security.” It will be John Paul H’sfirstliii Egypt. “1 am Muslim, but I amthnlld tliis v isit," exclaimed AmrAbbasi behind a colorful wall of soft drint; sale. “This will give a true image Egypt and show the world ue»: peace with no discriminate.'’ Nearby, a trendy young coupl Coptic Christians, wereseed Roman pope. “He is coming because often; sacre last month at el-Kusheh, bad fee 1 ings,” says Ahmed Shafq, salesman, expressing a widely heli lief among Copts. On Jan. 2, Muslim extremists rampage shot or beat to death 23 pe: all but two of them Christians, intk lage of el-Kusheh, south of Cairo the Nile. Unusual for Egypt, Coptsi 70 percent majority in the village, Although the visit was i shortly afterward, Coptic church ol said the pope did not involve himsti internal conflicts. G. 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