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Saudis increase oil production
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Saudi Arabia is increasing its crude oil production by nine barrels a day for the next three months, the oil industry Middle East.
U. S. oil officials said last week that an increase of as much as one million barrels a day would help ease the world petroleum shortage and act to hold up production.
Sarah Arabia's production ceiling had been 8.5 million barrels a day, although officials said actual output was higher.
Saudi Arabia provides about 7 percent of all U.S. crude oil needs.
The extra oil will be marketed through Aramco's four U.S. participants—Exxon, Texco, Standard Oil Co. of California and Mobil—with the remainder going to any new customers of the Saudi state oil concern Petromil, the report says. Aramco is a joint Saudi-U.S. firm which handles most of Saudi Arabia's oil.
Burd saus treatu negotiable
Byrd also said he thought the Soviets might be willing to go back to the bargaining table if major revisions of the treaty were made, but they might use the new negotiations to reopen controversial areas of the treaty and make new
WASHINGTON-Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd, just back from Moscow, said yesterday that he thought the Soviet Union might be willing to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee begins hearings on SALT II this week. The treaty sets limits on long-range missiles and heavy bombers in the Pacific.
Byrd said he made it clear to the Soviets that the Senate probably would have objections to the parts of the treaty that concerned the backfire bomber, the expiration date of the protocol attached to the treaty and the ability of the United States to continue to help its allies modernize their weapons.
Bryd met last week in Moscow with Soviet Foreign Minister André Gromyko, who said last month that no changes in the treaty by the Senate would be ac- tual.
Chances good for DC-10 flights
LOS ANGELES—Federal Aviation Administration chief Langhorne Bond will probit an order grounding all 138 domestic DC-10s by tomorrow, an
FAA staffers yesterday still were writing their final recommendations to be presented to Bond, spokesman Jessie Doollitt said. Bond will announce his plans on Wednesday.
He said "the chances would be fairly good but they would not be 100 percent" that the DC-10 would be back in the air this week.
He said there would be at least a 24-hour delay in returning the planes to the air after the ban is lifted because of an order by U.S. District Judge Aubrey Robinson in Washington. Robinson plans to hold a hearing after the FAA announces a decision so he can review the findings.
Somoza will increase draft
MANAGUA, Nicaragua-President Anastasio Somoza stepped up the drafting of thousands of young men yesterday as his national guard offensive in guerrilla-held Masaya slowed and the rebels continued to harass government troops.
Despite the announcement last Thursday of an assault against the rebels in Masaya, observers said the attacks had been limited and the government was doing its best to protect the people.
Sandinista radio broadcasts said rebels in Leon overran the national guard barcreses there Saturday. Government sources said the troops in León had been
Sommaz told a hurriedly convened session of the Nicaraguan Congress Saturday that he would draft 90,000 more men for the guard. The latest recruits, who will be sent to San Salvador on May 12,
Managua, nearby Granada and ports on the eastern Nicaraguan shore are the only urban areas still in Sonora's control.
Strauss helps out in Mideast
CAIRO, Egypt—President Carter's Mideast envoy, Robert Strauss, returned home yesterday after a mission that helped solve procedural problems in the Egyptian-Iraeli talks but failed to change the views of Jordan and Saudi Arabia on the peace negotiations.
Strauss said that a 3/4-hour session with Crown Prince Fahd, the head of the Saudi government, had "not indicated he changed his stance toward the peace process."
Officials in Amman, Jordan, said after Strauss met with King Hussein that their stance on the treaty was also unchanged.
Strauss heads the U.S. delegation to the three-party talks with Egypt and Israel, which concern establishing autonomy for the Palestinian Arabs on the West Bank.
Alternative fuel plant to open
SHELBYVILLE, K. The backers of a company called Coalquid plant in open day this month to market a different type of fuel, which they think will be more cost-effective.
W. David Shearer Jr., a Louisville lawyer and president of CoLiquid, said the company had produced a fuel that was a combination of oil and coal. The new fuel is a substitute for No. 6 Oil oil, used mainly by large industries. He estimated that it would be in many cases at a price of about 10 percent less than conventional fuel costs.
Shearer and a New York inventor, who acquired the patent for the product in August 1978, are planning to produce 50,000 gallons of the fuel each day once the patent is expired.
The new method eliminates the problem of separation in shipping that had plagued similar mixtures in the past, the backers said.
Talmadge to plead own defense
WASHINGTON—Sen. Herman E. Talmadge, D-Ga., will plead his own defense this week before the Senate Ethics Committee in answer to charges that he was a covert agent.
The six-member committee is expected to cross-examine Talmadge at length about testimony from his former wife that it was a "way of life" for the Senator and his wife.
Talmadge has said under oath that all his cash needs were met over the years with $5 and $10 cash contributions by Georgia constituents.
Sources said that former Georgia Gov. Ellis Arnall and former Georgia Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer were expected to confirm in their testimony today that it was common practice in Georgia for politicians to receive small cash contributions.
Talmadge is accused of five separate violation of Senate rules, including conversion of campaign contributions to his own use and knowing that false statements were made.
Islands votina on constitution
Palau is part of the U.S. U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, 2,141 pieces of land, won from Japan in World War II and administered under the last United States Treaty.
NEW YORK—The remote U.S. islands of Palau in the Pacific Ocean are pushing ahead today with a referendum on a constitution.
The United States hopes to end the trusteeship by 1881. Last year, islanders agreed to retain a "free association" with the United States for at least 15 years, meaning they would govern themselves but delegate full authority to the United States for defense and foreign relations.
But the U.S. government is objecting to two of the constitution's proposals, one that would declare Palau a "nuclear-free zone" and another that would prohibit establishment of military bases. The United States claims vital defense interests for the Palau region.
Even if Palau voters approve the constitution, the document still might be voided by the court, the legislature or the U.S.-appointed high commissioner. The void could come because of prior disputes over funding the referendum and attaining legislative approval.
Weather ...
Sikes will be clearing today with afternoon temperatures expected in the upper 80s. Tomi's low is in the in upper 80s and the extended forecast calls
Energy plan still in works
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter consulted with national leaders at Camp David yesterday and Vice President Walter F. Mondale hindered Carter would soon unveil an alternative fuels plan as ambitious as the program which put Americans on the moon.
Helicopters shuttled back and forth between Washington and Carter's mountain retreat, where he spent his sixth day mapping out plans for resolving the economic and energy problems that have dogged his tenure in the White House.
White House press secretary Jody Powell said that the decisions made over the next few months stemming from the meetings of the White House and the nature of our society" for years to come.
Powell said the talks were "freewheeling, remarkably candid and, from the president's perspective, very productive." He said he have dealt with "the broader social, political context of our domestic problems."
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said that when Carter reported to the nation on his
"We have an energy crisis, an urban crisis, growing racial polarization ... a morale crisis," Jackson said. "You get all of these together and you have a civilizational crisis in your workplace that can be reassessment. So the president is decisive about that. He is perceptive about that."
administration's new plans, "there will be a tremendous challenge for this country for our young people."
Mondale stopped short of revealing Carter's plan, but he hinted in a speech at the national governors conference in Louisville, Ky., that Carter would announce a program to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign supplies for more than half
"The country that developed synthetic rubber overnight, the country that put a man on the moon, must now create an Apollo project to produce alternative fuels," Mondale said. "We must do that, and we must start today."
The scope of Carter's domestic summit appeared to cover not only the energy
Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, invited by Carter to join the talks, said in a television interview that there were some "in the administration who have put high drama ahead of sound planning."
But Byrd praised Carter for engaging in broad consultations before laying out a new course for the rest of his term. Byrd said the school's energy program that reflected leadership.
crunch and an economy heading toward a likely recession but a variety of related factors are present.
Politically, Byrd said, the criticism Carter had taken for this summer's gasoline shortage and for steep rise in prices for fuel and almost everything else had not wounded the president so severely that his political losses were irreversible.
In a memo printed Saturday in the Washington Post, presidential domestic adviser Stuart Elzenat said the gasoline problem was caused by problems as the Vietnam War had caused
for Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
Meanwhile, the president summoned embattled Energy Secretary James R. Campbell to sign a bill that number of powerful oil industry figures. Carter also invited two Democratic governors, Hugh Gallen of New Hampshire and Robert Graham of Florida, to break away from the National Governors' Association meeting in Louisville, Ky., to meet with President Jay Rockefeller, a democrat from West Virginia, was also invited to Camp David.
Wednesday was considered the earliest day the president might return to the White House. Yesterday was his sixth consecutive day closed at the presidential hideaway.
Returning to Washington from an overnight stay at Camp David, Clark Clifford, who has served as an adviser to seven presidents, said he found Carter in a "good, solid mood," and added: "It's one of making assessment before he reports to the neeled."
Skylab is falling, Skylab is falling
WASHINGTON (AP)—Any poor soul who doesn't beat the 600 billion to one odds against being hit when Skylar falls this week, can take solace in knowing there was virtually no way to avoid it. He simply becomes a loser in a cosmic crashhoot.
The National Space and Aeronautics Administration, which has little control over the 7.5-ton tank, can't offer much advice for surviving skylab's dive to earth. If there were a single bit of wisdom, it would be: Don't worry.
The North American Air Defense Command said yesterday in its daily prediction, that the station would fail to earth during a storm at 12:28 a.m. tomorrow and 12:28 a.m. Thursday.
NORAD's computers calculated a re-entry time at 9:28 a.m. Wednesday, but because of uncertainties in the forecast, the command's experts added 15 hours on either side. The predicted re-entry time has been changed daily.
"We'd like to caution people not to take over actions that would put themselves in more danger than Skylab is to begin with," Mr. Nielsen said. Smith, head of NASA's Skylab space force.
NORAD also said Skylab had dipped 14.8 miles closer to Earth since Saturday.
His worry is that people will get hurt in auto accidents while rushing around trying to avoid one of the 500 pieces expected to scatter at 400,000 square miles.
"If you've got a two-story house or a single story house with a basement, you do pick up a degree of protection by being on the lower floors." Smith said.
"The bottom line is, there is a slight additional degree of safety by being in a normal family dwellings. And if it's convenient to be there and you are concerned
"If a large piece would hit that house it would penetrate those floors and there will fly debris, 'S Smith said. So, potentially, the fire can damage the curtains, you are better off outside in a near miss than potentially inside in a near miss." We are talking about the bit, the benefit of being in a normal house.
about it, by all means go inside. But don't rush home from the supermarket or something like that and expose yourself to a greater danger from some other cause."
All three national commercial television networks said they planned to interrupt programming as needed with bulletins on the space station's descent.
NASA's control over Skylab is limited, but the agency can change Skylab's position in orbit to add or lessen drag. By reducing drag, Skylab's life can be extended to put it into an orbit where it will pass over lesser populated areas.
Most of the 500 pieces that will survive the trip through the atmosphere will weigh 10 pounds or less and will travel at about 30 mph—one-third as fast as a baseball. By the time the pieces land, they will be cool enough to touch.
But 10 pieces of 1,000 pounds or more will slam to earth at 250 mph.
For claims of damage from Skylab debris, the space agency has an easy test: Skylab has become mildly—but not dangerously—radioactive during its six years of traveling around the world. If someone produces a chunk of metal and says it is a piece of Skylab that caused damage, NASA will test it for radioactivity.
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