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News Briefs From United Press International
Saudi says OPEC leaders will reach agreement soon
PARIS — A Saudi Arabian oil minister said yesterday that a pricing agreement among members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was "imminent" and that the cartel might hold a full meeting to set a new bench-mark price for crude oil as soon as Saturday.
"I think we will continue talks for two or three days and I think we will call a summit either this coming Saturday or Monday," Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yami, the oil minister, said in an interview on French television.
"We are at the point of reaching agreement."
Yaman's statements were the most optimistic yet that members of OPEC would avoid a global price war.
Yamani did not specify a location, but there was speculation the meeting could take place in the Swiss cities of Geneva or Lausanne.
French radio reports from Nigeria said Nigerian Oil Minister Mallam Yahya Dikko, OPEC's chairman, was due to arrive in Geneva today.
Chinese ferry capsizes: 147 missing
PEKING - A ferry carrying at least 232 people to a popular south China tourist area capsized yesterday during a thunderstorm, leaving at least 147 people missing and feared dead, officials said.
Officials in Guangdong Province said the ferry, Red Star 312, was on its regular run from Canton to Zhaoping, a tourist attraction 46 miles to the south of the city.
Most of the passengers were believed to have been asleep and had little time to grab life preservers before the boat turned over in the Shanshu River.
According to officials, only 85 people had been rescued and 66 of them required hospitalization. At least 147 people were missing.
Officials said the ferry carried 32 crew members and at least 200 passengers. Officials were not optimistic that many more survivors would be found.
Poland's debts irk Common Market
BONN, West Germany — Poland has declared a moratorium on its official debts to the West by neglecting to meet interest repayments throughout 1982, European Economic Community foreign ministers said yesterday.
The ministers of the 10-nation Common Market agreed at a meeting yesterday to take up the problem among themselves and other creditors later this month.
"The Poles are not servicing their official debt," said Douglas Hurd, the British minister of state for foreign affairs.
Hurd said there was a need to "call the Poles to account" on the debts, which he estimated to be half the $28 billion debt to the West.
Ministers said Poland had made no repayments on official debts since December 1981. Official debts are those guaranteed by Western governments who must reimburse banks for the foregone interest
U.S. House passes youth jobs bill
WASHINGTON — The House passed a six-year. $1.86 billion jobs bill yesterday that will create a youth conservation corps patterned after Franklin Roosevelt's CCC camps, which will be 50 years old next week.
Despite the Reagan administration's opposition, the oppositon bill attracted many Republican votes and was passed 301-87. It was sent to the Senate, where sponsors promised that, despite numerous defeats, the bill would be approved this time around.
The bill would establish an American Conservation Corps for rehabilitation and improvement of natural and cultural resources on public or Indian lands. It would authorize $60 million this year and $300 million each following year through 1989.
Rep. John Seiberling, D-Ohio, a chief House sponsor, said the corps would recruit about 100,000 youths each year.
Steelworkers agree to new contract
PITTSBURGH — The United Steelworkers union yesterday ratified a 41-month contract with steel producers, swapping a temporary pay cut for the industry's commitment to use the money to modernize mills.
The agreement, covering 266,000 steelworkers, was the first to give up gains the USW won during the industry's boom years. USW local presidents, with a vote of 169 to 63, approved the pact.
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"The industry badly needs the intern reiter provided in the new agreement, said Bruce Johnson, vice president for Cushman Davidson." He had said that he believed the company could hope for, given the depressed state of the steel industry, which last year suffered its worst year since the Depression.
The contract reduces wages by about 9 percent and eliminates some vacation time in return for an industry promise to spend savings on plant improvements.
El Salvador rejects cease-fire plan
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Defense Minister Jose Guillermo García yesterday rejected guerrilla requests for a cease-fire during Pope John Paul II's visit Sunday.
The leader of the rebels' political arm, Guillermo Ungo, Monday offered the truce to coincide with the papal visit.
"We are only reacting to their violence and fulfilling our duty to defend the country," he said.
In another development, the rebels' clandestine Radio Venceremos said the Salvadoran air force, using U.S. supplied jets, had killed 40 to 50 civilians, most of them children, in a bombing sweep of rebel-held territory. The radio said the bombs were carried out Friday on the slopes of Guazapa Volcano, 30 miles north of San Salvador.
Social Security rescue bill approved
WASHINGTON — The House Ways and Means Committee last night tentatively approved a $165 billion Social Security rescue bill that raises taxes and curbs benefits this decade and next century but leaves the retirement age intact.
The committee, soundly rejecting a proposal to exempt new federal employees from the retirement system, also tentatively approved payroll tax hikes this decade, a six-month benefits freeze and a tax on payments to better-off retirees.
To erase Social Security's long-term debt, the committee agreed to raise payroll taxes next century and reduce the basic benefit for new retirees in 2008. A final vote is expected on the bill today.
Traffic smooth despite Jersey strike
NEWARK, N.J. — Conductors and trainmen of New Jersey's state-run commuter railroad went on strike yesterday, forcing 70,000 New York City commuters to take special buses or travel in new cars.
Despite the walkout, officials said the morning rush hour in New York City went smoother than expected because most commuters left home earlier and doubled up in cars.
The rail workers, members of the United Transportation Union, walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. after negotiations on a new contract broke down over wage and hour differences.
Crime rate in Kansas declines
By United Press International
Other violent crimes such as robbery and aggravated assault also showed a decrease. There were 2,605 robberies in 1981 compared to 2,093 in 1982, a drop of 19.7 percent. Aggravated assault fell by only 1.5 percent.
TOPEKA — Violent crimes such as murder and rape fell by 8.3 percent in 1982 and property crimes went down by 7.1 percent. The Kansas State of War of 1862 was one of the most violent years.
KBI Director Thomas Kelly said in the report that 138 murders were reported in 1982 compared to 149 reported in 1981, at a 4.4 percent decrease. By 18.1 percent last year, from 729 reported in 1961 to 597 reported in 1962.
The number of violent crimes reported was 8,060 in 1982 compared to 7,502 in 1984.
The KBI said 118,556 property crimes were reported in 1981 compared to 111,031 in 1982, a drop of 4.5 percent. Property crimes such as burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft also decreased.
Settlers storm Arab schools
By United Press International
settlers took place at the al-Farok School in Nabulus and a school in Vatta
Armed Jewish settlers stormed two Palestinian schools on the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday, fired shots over students heads and abducted two youths, a Palestinian news agency said. Israeli officials said the boys had stoned cars and were taken to a police station.
The Palestinian Press Agency said the incidents involving the Israeli
In Tel Aviv, Maj. Gen. Yehoshua Saguy, director of Israeli military intelligence, left his post, and the chief infantry and paratroop officer, Brig. Gen. Amos Yaron, was relieved of his field command in accordance with recommendations of the Beirut massacre commission, which made a report on the Sept. 16-18 massacre of Palestinian refugees.
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WASHINGTON — A key House member said yesterday he had "specific information of criminal conduct" in the government's handling of toxic waste cleanups and called on President Obama to pledge not to cover up wrongdoing.
In a letter to Reagan and the Justice Department, Rep. John Dingell, D Mich., urged the president to release all documents relevant to his subcommittee's investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Appearing at a budget hearing later, EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford, her voice cracking, said the "circus atmosphere" swirling around the agency had crippled its ability to do its job.
SHE SAID SHE believed the only way to resolve the situation was to allow "total congressional access" to EPA's enforcement files under an elaborate procedure already worked out with one U.S. House panel
Several congressional panels have
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Superfur is the $1.6 billion allocated to clean up toxic waste dumps.
Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee, said sword statements by EPA employees "present evidence of wrongdoing, unethical behavior and potential criminal conduct.
While the information Dingell referred to apparently focuses on possible perjury by Rita Lavelle — fired chief of EPA's toxic waste program — the congressman also said his panel examined evidence that there was evidence of "political manipulation" among documents the agency had refused to surrender.
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