Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 248, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 June 1979 — Page 2
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Carter, Ohira discuss energy ideas in private meeting
TOKYO ( AP) - President Carter, his wife and daughter both bedridden with a stomach virus, discussed new ideas for dealing with the world energy problem today with Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Carter and Ohira publicly described US.-Japanese relations as uniquely close, but apparently reached no agreement on energy in their nearly two-hour private meeting today. American sources, who asked not to be identified, said the two made no attempt to forge a common front. The sources said the two hope instead to reach a consensus on proposals when they get together Thursday for a twoday economic summit with the leaders of France, Britain, West Germany, Canada and Italy. The U.S. officials said Carter an Ohira spent more than half their time talking about energy and its impact on poor nations. ADA plans to go after Carter WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal group that helped topple one president, is now going after Jimmy Carter and adding new muscle to the effort to draft Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for the job. The ADA, considered the country’s leading cadre of liberalism with 55,000 members and four decades of activism within the Democratic Party, adopted a resolution Sunday asking the Massachusetts senator to challenge Carter. The resolution, adopted at the final session of the group’s annual convention went further, however, to say that if Kennedy won’t do it, the ADA will look for someone else to take up the challenge. “For those who tremble at the prospect of bringing down a sitting president, we would remind them that more than the fate of Jimmy Carter is at stake,” the resolution said. “At stake is the future of the Democratic Party as the party of the people.” Although Carter had his defenders in three days of discussion leading up to the decision and White House lobbyists were busy among the delegates, there was no official White House reaction. Carter was in Tokyo for an economic summit conference. The Democratic Party’s national chairman, John C. White, said he wasn’t surprised by Sunday’s action. “I don’t think anyone expected the ADA to support an incumbent administration,” said White, who has spoken against the dump-Carter movement. “They never have.”
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They also talked about ways to ease the plight of thousands of refugees fleeing Vietnam, and they agreed to set up a consultative group of American and Japanese businessmen and financiers to present recommendations on long-term solutions to economic frictions between the two nations. Carter and Ohira both said the United States and Japan have the closest relations in history of any two nations so different in culture and background. Carter went so far as to say the two peoples didn’t act toward each other like nations at all, but “almost like members of one extended family.” Carter and Ohira made their remarks during an exchange of toasts following a business session and a formal luncheon today. Earlier, Carter was welcomed in regal fashion by Emperor Hirohito.
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Motorists join fuel protest
By CHARLOTTE PORTER Associated Press Writer Police cleared the streets of Levittown, Pa., early today after a spontaneous protest against high fuel prices and short fuel supplies turned into a two-day melee that left dozens of persons injured. Bristol Township Police Sgt. Donald Peterson said a large truck rig tried to run down police officers who were clearing one of the town’s neighborhoods on Sunday. More than 180 people were arrested in the suburban Philadelphia community during the protest, which began Saturday when 1,000 disgruntled motor-
Negotiations won't reopen
MOSCOW (AP) - Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko declared today “it would be impossible to reopen negotiations” if the U.S. Senate refuses to ratify the just-signed SALT II arms limitation treaty.
Somoza open to inititives from OAS
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) President Anastasio Somoza vowed to fight on as Sandinista guerrillas captured their third major city and continued a two-week-long occupation of eastern Managua’s slums despite heavy aerial bombing. Somoza told the nation Sunday he was open to initiatives from members of the Organization of American States who “have a true interest in a peaceful solution” to Nicaragua’s violence. He did not mention the OAS call for his resignation, but high government sources said his speech
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OPEC members gather for pricing meeting
GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are gathering in Geneva for a pricing meeting that is expected to increase their base price of crude oil to at least $lB a barrel. That would be $1 more than the current average price of OPEC crude and would add more than 4 cents a gallon to the price of gasoline or heaing oil in the United States. The oil ministers of the 13 nations of the oil cartel meet Tuesday and Wednesday to try to unify their price structure after three months of proliferating surcharges due to the oil shortage. OPEC’s base price since March has been $14.55 for a 42gallon barrel, but the demand due to the reduction in Iranian production enabled individual members to tack on surcharges running as high as $6 a barrel. The rush by all the OPEC nations except Saudi Arabia to profit via the individual surcharge route caused fears among
Carter seemed quite vigorous, jogging and swimming before the start of official functions. He later paid an afternoon visit to the Meiji shrine, and wrote in the guest book: “Jim-
ists angry at the closing of a service station joined protesting truckers to block a major intersection. The protest flared again Sunday as teen-agers swelled the ranks of protesters who moved from one intersection to another, eluding police and snarling traffic. More than 80 people were treated -for- injuries, including some police officers, over the two days of violence. Hospital emergency rooms were pressed into service as police armed with dogs and billy clubs moved in to clear blocked streets Sunday. One man was treated for a gunshot wound in his arm.
At a news conference, Gromyko switched from Russian to English to underscore his point for Americans. It was the first flat statement by the Soviets that they would not return to the bargaining table if
could be read as an emphatic rejection. The sources said Somoza told national guard commanders by short-wave radio after the OAS resolution Saturday that he had decided to “continue the fight and beat the enemy.” Shortly afterward the guard fled from Masaya, 20 miles southeast of Managua. Sandinista guerrillas showed reporters the burned-out garrison Sunday and told them rebel sharpshooters had replaced guard snipers in the towers of the adjacent cathedral.
my Carter for peace and friendship among all people.” But wife Rosalynn and daughter Amy, 11, both took to bed and cancelled public appearances because of a stomach virus.
storefront windows were smashed and two service stations severely vandalized. Firefighters battling a blaze in an abandoned automobile were pelted with rocks and beer cans. Isolated groups of demonstrators continued to throw rocks at police into the night, but police said calm was restored early today. “They just all turned animal,” said one police officer. Fireworks were set off, adding to the confusion, which the one officer called “a circus.” Two men were arrested on assault and weapons charges as an estimated 200 police were called in to clear the area.
the treaty is not ratified. “I tell you frankly it is impossible to resume negotiations,” he said, his voice rising. “It would be end of negotiations—end.
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Haig escapes unharmed from blast
CASTEAU, Belgium (AP) - Gen. Alexander M. Haig, the NATO military commander, escaped unharmed today from an explosion that injured two of his
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some members that the cartel was losing the unity that enabled it to control world oil prices. As a result, most members seem determined to leave Geneva ks with a unified price. “The pricing system should be the same for all the countries,” said Oil Minister Humberto Calderon-Berti of Venezuela. “We have to find a point where all of us can come together.” Both Calderon and Kuwait’s oil minister, Ali Khalifa Al-Sa-bah, said they expected the group would have little trouble reaching a consensus. “I don’t think it will be a difficult meeting,” said Khalifa. Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani of Saudi Arabia hinted a base price of $lB a barrel would be acceptable to his government. Since Saudi Arabia is OPEC’s biggest producer, most analysts expect agreement on a price at or near that level.
They apparently caught the virus in Washington from Carter’s daughter-in-law Judy and two grandchildren, who had been visiting at the White House. The relatives “were suffering
Justice Department investigates Dip in domestic production found
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supplies of gasoline at the nation’s service stations are tight in part because the flow of oil from wells in the United States slowed inexplicably last winter, an Associated Press investigation shows. The Justice Department is investigating whether this previously unnoticed dip in domestic production coming as Iran and its oil production teetered on the brink of chaos could involve violations of antitrust laws by the nation’s major oil companies. The drop in domestic production is one of the topics the antitrust probers will discuss in a nearly 50-page report to President Carter to be sent to the White House later this week. Government sources who declined to be identified said the investigators will ask Carter for more time to probe the dip and the other factors involved in the gasoline shortage. The AP investigation found that the drop in domestic crude oil production worked in tandem with another homegrown factor U.S. refiners getting less and less gasoline from each barrel of oil to cost the nation more gasoline than the cutoff of Iranian crude imports. The dip in U.S. oil production accounted for at least 11 million
guards and damaged his car as he was driving from his home in Obourg to his office in Casteau, an official source said. A spokesman for Haig, who is
from a similar virus when the Carters left for Japan on Saturday morning,” said Mrs. Carter’s press secretary Mary Hoyt. At the luncheon, Ohira said no
barrels of gasoline that otherwise would have gone into motorists’ tanks. An additional 11.5 million barrels of gasoline simply never got produced by U.S. refineries because they were making less gasoline and more heating oil, jet fuel and petrochemicals out of each barrel of crude oil. The AP probe found that these two factors totaling 22.5 million barrels of gasoline caused more of the shortage than the cutoff of Iranian oil, which meant a loss of at least 17.5 million barrels of gasoline. There are 42 gallons in a barrel. Those three factors add up to some 40 million barrels of gasoline that never reached service stations about equal to the Department of Energy’s projection of the gasoline shortage in April and May. The Justice Department is checking the possibility that companies decreased domestic production in anticipation of decontrol of crude oil prices this month, sources said. Under this theory, the companies may have hoped to get higher prices and to discourage opposition to decontrol by aggravating a shortage that they could claim would have been prevented with price incentives. Executives of the nation’s biggest oil companies denied in
due to retire Friday, said the car of the two guards was completely wrecked by the explosion that apparently was from a land mine detonated by remote control. They were only slightly injured, however, he added, and had already left the hospital. Haig’s car had its exhaust and trunk damaged but could still operate. Haig’s car was driving in front of the guards’ car. One of the guards was an American. The other was Belgian. Neither was seriously hurt.
two nations so different had ever enjoyed “an interchange of so great scope and substance” as the United States and Japan. In his toast Carter echoed that, saying “I doubt that there has ever been two countries so different...but still bound so closely together.” Carter said the economic summit starting Thursday, which will be dominated by discussion of the price and scarcity of oil, “might very well be the most important economic summit conference ever held. ” Carter is expected to seek agreements by the seven nations to curb their oil imports, cease running up oil prices by bidding against each other on spot markets, and develop alternative energy sources such as synthetic fuels and solar power.
interviews with the AP that there had been any deliberate manipulation of domestic oil production, adding that they were scrambling for crude supplies. “We’re scrounging for every drop of oil we can find,” said H.H. Zachow, vice president for crude and products supplies for ARCO Petroleum Products Co. But the industry executives’ explanations for the dip were often contradictory and do not explain the shortage completely. Many blamed bad weather and equipment problems, but a check of federal weather records generally does not support the argument that the weather was particularly poor in critical oil-producing areas last winter. Oil executives generally conceded they knew problems were coming in Iran last September or October. The companies also knew Americans were driving an unexpectedly large amount last fall, forcing the firms to use up stocks of gasoline and crude oil. With all these reasons for higher domestic production, the flow of oil from U.S. wells suddenly slowed. U.S. wells pumped 8.83 million barrels a day in October, Energy Department figures
Belgian police said two men riding motorcycles had been spotted at the site of the explosion, and the Belgian news agency Belga said one of them was arrested in Ath, about 12 miles away. However, NATO officials said they had no idea so far of who was behind the explosion, and no group claimed responsibility immediately. The incident took place at about 8:30 a m. near the village of Obourg where Haig lives, as he was being driven to his nearby office. Obourg and Casteau are a few miles apart.
Hirohito, 78 and stooped, met with Carter and Rosalynn at the Akasaka palace, an ornate government guest house patterned after Versailles. It will be the site of the summit talks Thursday and Friday. Carter grasped the emperor’s outstretched hand with both of his and said, “I’m very honored to meet you,” adding that he brought greetings from the people of the United States. The two men then walked into a vast cobbled courtyard laced with red carpets to hear their national anthems and review a white-uniformed honor guard. There were no speeches, just handshakes with dignitaries while children in school uniforms and. older invited guests waved paper flags and fanned themselves in the humid heat. Carter jogged Sunday night and today in the U.S. embassy compound, where he is staying, and took a morning swim there.
show, the peak for the year in which average production was 8.7 million barrels. But then' production turned down. In November, it dropped to 8.73 million barrels a day; in December, to 8,65 million; in January, to 8.46 million; and in February, to 8.29 million. Industry analysts project that production rebounded to 8.69 million barrels a day in March and 8.62 million in April. The drop totaled 22.8 million barrels below 1978 average production. It was far greater than the usual gradual decline in production as wells are exhausted. At average refining rates, that amount of crude would have produced about 11 million barrels of gasoline. By comparison, the drop in imports due to the chaos in Iran totaled 36.2 million barrels of crude, which could have produced 17.5 million barrels of gasoline. Numerous oil executives were not aware of the drop, for most have followed figures compiled by an industry group that are projections and not actual production figures. And the executives conceded the final DOE figures, which did show the dip, were the most reliable.
Smoke Flies And sabers clash as "Union” and "Confederate" soldiers get another chance at one another in this mock battle staged over the weekend at Billie Creek Village near Rockville as a part of the annual event, Civil War Days. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields).
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