Thursday, September 6, 1979
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Heating oil plentiful but expensive
"There may be many people in our country who will be faced this winter with a cruel cruelty between food or heat." John F. O'Leary told a congressional panel.
WASHINGTON (AP)—People who heat with oil should be able to heat all the fuel they need this winter, but will pay at least 50 cents per gallon. The Carter administration said yesterday.
O'Leary and other administration officials testified at a hearing into the status of U.S. heating oil supplies. The session was led by two House energy subcommittees.
The officials denied that the sale of 2 million barrels of kerosene and heating oil to Iran would noticeably affect U.S. supplies
of these fuels or that the transaction constituted "blackmail."
And they disputed news reports indicating that Iran planned to resell the fuel at a profit.
"IAN WILL use every drop of that oil." State Department official Henry Prechakla said Tuesday that a seamed aimed at home consumption in Iran and do not reflect the reality of the world.
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Earlier fears of a heating oil shortage this winter have been all but eliminated, said O'Leary, whose resignation is the nation's official fake takes effect later this month.
"Industry is building stocks at a faster rate than last year," and President Carter's goal of having 240 million barrels of heating oil.
oil and diesel fuel in reserve by October will be met,he predicted..
However, O'Leary also testified that the price outlook is bleak.
"It is clear that there has been a significant increase in heating oil prices over last winter's level," he said.
O'Leary said the national average has already climbed to 80 cents per gallon, a 27-cent increase - or 51 percent rise - over the December 1978 price.
O'LEARY's testimony coincided with the release of a new Library of Congress study which compared the current 68-cent-per-share price to September's average price $4.69 a gallon.
Thus, the industry has charged consumers some $1 billion more in higher prices than can be justified by higher crude and general inflation, the report concludes.
Of that total one-year increase, only 14.8 cents can be attributed to higher crude oil costs, the report alleged.
But O'Leary said that despite the sharp price increase, there is no hard evidence that oil companies are engaging in pricing-guaging—even though he said reining-in
He said the administration will soon ask Congress for $150 million more than the $250 million already appropriated for energy assistance for low income families.
O'Leary also said there should be enough diesel fuel supplies to go around to keep farmers, truckers and home-owners happy, because those groups would receive special consideration.
European royalty attend Mountbatten burial
LONDON (AP)—Earl Mountbatten of
Norton was buried in a shy by Irish
territory, the Sea of Azor, and in
century abbey facing the Elizabeth and
attended by Queen Elizabeth and six
The burial took place at Romsey Abbey, 80 miles south of London, hours after funeral services at Westminster Abbey in the presence of 1,400 digitaries.
It was the largest gathering of European royalty since the death of the queen's father, King George VI in 1952.
Mountbatten was killed 87, after a bomb exploded aboard his private yacht in Donegal Bay, off the coast of the Irish Republic.
He was one more victim of a terror campaign against British control of Northern Ireland that has claimed at least 1,968 lives in the last 10 years.
A cousin of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's uncle, Mountbattan was related to most of the remaining royal houses of Eurone.
THE GUN carriage bearing Mount-batten's casket was pulled to Westminster and was escorted by 2,900 servicemen.
Queen Elizabeth was grim throughout the 45-minute funeral service. Her son and her, Prince Charles, whom Mountbashan had made a good king read from Psalm 197.
"They that go down to the sea in ships and
occupy their business in great waters, these men see the work of the Lord," he read.
More than 5,000 police and troops were on alert for possible activity by the outlawed provisional wing of the Irish Republican Mountbattalion to take responsibility for Mountbattalion's death.
THERE WAS renewed violence in troubled Northern Ireland yesterday. Police said Protestant critics伤了 wound and Roman Catholics aboard a bus in Belfast.
Thousands of spectators slept on sidewalks or rose early to see the funeral procession, which took place in bright sunshine under massive security.
The mostly Catholic IRA guerrillas are fighting to end British rule in Northern Ireland and to end the predominancy Protestant province with the Irish Republic.
The outlawed Protestant Unster Fighters, violently opposed to the IRA, announced last week they were ending a 2% death rate among teenagers and death increasing BJA terrorist acts.
Mountbatten, 79, a World War II naval hero, commander of the forces that defeated Japan in Southeast Asia, last viceroy of India and Admiral Rear Admiral Navy, was killed in the war.
He joined the navy as a 13-year-old cadet and rose to be First Sea Lord, the top non-civilian post at the Admiralty.
Russian troops draw White House concern
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Carter administration's presence of Soviet troops in Cuba, "would not be satisfied with maintenance of the status quo," Secretary of State Cyrus McCormick said.
Vance, in the carefully worded and careful rule, out of the possibility that the SALT II treaty would be held hostage unless the combat capability of the Soviet troops in
He said he had asked Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin to return as soon as possible from home leave for "serious" discussions on the subject.
At the same time, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met to discuss the situation in Cuba is endangering ratification of the SALT II treaty. The panel had been scheduled to postpone hearings on the issue but resumed discussions to discuss the Cuban situation in private.
Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, chairman
of the committee, said he had opposed linking ratification of the pact to Soviet actions on other issues.
But, he said. "This particular action comes so close to home that unless the matter is corrected in a manner that is acceptable to the United States, then I would think it would move impossible to get around," linked as the Senate takes up the treaty."
"The time has come to draw the line," said Sen. Richard Stone, D-Fla. "The place to draw the line is Cuba."
He said the administration should notify the Soviets that "all our relations are at risk" and that the Russian troops "must leave."
President Carter met for about 90 minutes yesterday with the National Security Council to discuss the Cuban situation.
A White House official, who asked that he not be named, said Carter was presented with council recommendations and a status of the Soviet troops does not change.
Bowling Leagues
★FALL 1979★
Monday Sept. 10 Scratch 6:30 pm
Monday Sept. 10 Mixed Handicap 8:30 pm
Tuesday Sept. 11 Men 6:30 pm
Tuesday Sept. 11 Women 6:30 pm
Wednesday Sept. 12 Greek 6:30 pm
Wednesday University Women 1:00 pm
Thursday Sept. 13 All Campus 6:30 pm
Thursday Sept. 13 All Campus 8:30 pm
Friday Sept. 14 TGIF 4:00 pm
Sunday Sept. 16 Mixed 2:00 pm
Sunday Sept. 16 Faculty Mixed
(Alternate Sundays) 7:00 pm
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