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OPEC to reduce oil production by 1.5 million barrels per day

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - OPEC says it will reduce its oil production to stop a decline in prices, but a new round of talks starting today on how to share the cutback is expected to prove more difficult. The 13-nation cartel announced Monday, after more than 10 hours of talks in a Geneva hotel, that it had agreed in principle to reduce its production ceiling by 1.5 million barrels a day starting Thursday. That, it is hoped within OPEC, will dry up the worldwide oil glut and force up prices. The current production ceiling is 17.5 million barrels, representing about 40 percent of the non-communist world’s oil production. But estimates of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ actual output vary; even the oil ministers themselves do not agree. Most estimates put the cartel’s October production at about 17 million to 18 million barrels a day. Actual figures are unavailable because none of the OPEC member countries publishes official numbers. “A consensus has been reached that a cut of 1.5 million is sufficient, and we do not want to overdo it by having a larger cut,” Indonesian Oil Minister Subroto told reporters after Monday’s agreement. Subroto said the ministers had yet to decide how long they would hold produc-

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tion to the 16 million-barrel-a-day level. He added, however, that he believed that within “a couple of months” the tightening of supplies would force prices back to OPEC’s official level of $29 a barrel. The cartel’s aim is to produce about 2.5 million barrels a day less than projected demand during the final months of this year. Prices on the free market, where oil not under OPEC’s control is sold to the highest bidder, have been well below the official prices quoted by OPEC nations. As a result, the cartel has been losing sales. Britain and Norway cut their prices earlier this month, and Nigeria one of the major OPEC producers followed with an even larger cut. That has thrown the OPEC pricing system into chaos and

Two are executed

By The Associated Press Convicted cop killer Thomas Andy Barefoot was put to death by injection in Texas early Tuesday, minutes after Earnest Knighton Jr. was electrocuted in neighboring Louisiana for shooting a service station owner to death as the man’s wife watched. Knighton was pronounced dead at 12:17 a.m. CST by corrections officials in Baton Rouge, and Barefoot died at 12:24 a m., said Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox. Both had been slated to die after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay their sentences. Earlier in the day, Barefoot, 39, insisted that God would halt his execution, and Knighton, 38, studied pictures of Louisiana’s electric chair to steel his courage in his final hours. Twenty-eight people v now have been

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opened the door to a possible price collapse. Nigeria has refused, in the face of intense pressure from OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, to rescind its price cut. Nigerian Oil Minister Tam David-West also said on his arrival in Geneva that his country would not join the rest of OPEC in any cutbacks in oil production. He said his economically distressed nation could not afford it. That left the cartel with one main alternative squeeze supplies enough during the peak season for oil use this fall and winter to force up prices on the open market. That, in turn, could allow Nigeria to restore its former price and avert a possible price war among other oil producers.

executed in the United States since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed states to restore the death penalty. The two executions came in a week that will probably see the first woman put to death in the United States in 22 years. Velma Barfield’s attorneys asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to stop her execution. The U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 Monday against staying the execution for Barefoot, whose case had been reviewed 11 times during more than five years of appeals. He had won four stays, one just 11 hours before he was to have been put to death. Texas Gov. Mark White refused to grant a 30-day reprieve to Barefoot, who was executed for shooting a policeman to death.

Indonesian bomb blast kills 13 persons JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Troops sealed off the Indonesian Marine Corps headquarters today after an explosion at a munitions dump filled the night sky with tons of bombs and bullets. The government said 13 people were killed; other sources said the toll could be twice that high. The explosion Monday night in south Jakarta lit up the sky with wild bursts of mortar and artillery shells, grenades and other explosives. Thousands of people ran into the streets in panic as their houses caved in, or windows and doors were blown out. Information Minister Harmoko said at least 13 people were killed and 22 injured in the blast. Reports from hospitals, marine sources and relatives of victims put the toll at least 25 dead and more than 100 injured. There were unconfirmed reports that some marines were among the casualties. Harmoko said the explosion was caused by a fire in the munitions warehouse that fire brigades were unable to control. A police spokesman said the area was sealed off today by armored vehicles to protect people from isloated explosions that continued through the morning and to prevent thieves from robbing the homes of residents who fled. Residents at the district of Depok and Cibinong, about 20 miles south of the city of 6.5 million, felt their windows shake from the shocks of the blasts. Some residents living near the headquarters were killed by flying shells and shrapnel.

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Space lesson 80,000 teachers may apply for ride on space shuttle

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Forty teachers from around the United States spent this past weekend experiencing weightlessness and flying a mock shuttle mission at a space camp here, hoping the experience would give them an edge when the first private citizen to fly in space is chosen by the space agency. President Reagan announced in August that an elementary or high school teacher would be the first “citizen passenger” to fly into space aboard the space shuttle, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is to begin accepting applications Dec. 1, an agency official told the educators at the space camp. Michael A. DiSpezio, a high school science teacher from Cataumet, Mass., said the knowledge he gained in three days here at the Alabama Space and Rocket Center’s space camp and museum would help him stand out from the thousands of teachers who are expected to apply for a shuttle ride. “I know they say 80,000 may apply,” DiSpezio said, but “with what I’ve experienced this weekend I feel like my dream just might come true. ’ ’ The Space and Rocket Center, a state-run museum, began its space camp three years ago with a series of weeklong sessions for children designed to interest them in space flight. This month the camp, which is not affiliated with NASA, began weekend programs for adults. The first full-scale space weekend, which ended Sunday, was aimed specifically at educators. Among the participants was Alan Ladwig, the NASA official in charge of the program to put a teacher in space. Like the others, he practiced maneuvers astronauts are expected to perform in space. At one point Ladwig fastened his seat belt as a giant cranelike arm lifted him high above the floor and over to another “astronaut” waiting to build a component for a mock space station. Ladwig, 35 years old, said he wanted to see how the space camp might be used to help train the first teacher to fly aboard the shuttle. The NASA official also disclosed some of the

UAW, Ford reach accord

Canadians settle with GM

TORONTO (AP) With 36,000 Canadian autoworkers heading back to the job after a two-week strike against General Motors Corp,, more than 40,000 U.S. employees laid off because of the walkout may be recalled by the end of the week, a GM spokesman said today. Workers at 13 Canadian plants on Monday voted 87.1 percent approval for a new contract giving them an average raise of 50 cents an hour in the first year of a threeyear agreement, the United Auto Workers union said. The UAW also said its members had approved a new three-year pact with Ford Motor Co. in the United States by a vote of 33,312 to 18,386, or 64 percent to 36 percent. Maintenance workers at some Canadian plants were being called in Monday night, with full production expected to resume today or Wednesday, union officials said

details of the selection process. He said that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would accept teachers’ applications from Dec. 1 to Feb. 1. NASA will work with the Council of Chief State School Officers to narrow the field to 120 applicants, with at least two from each state and territory, he said. The 10 semifinalists are to be announced July 4, he added, and a primary candidate and backup candidate will be chosen in September. He said that the exact eligibilty requirements would be announced in about two weeks, but that applicants should have at least five years of classroom experience The teacher who is selected, Ladwig said, is to spend a year working for NASA, giving lectures about the experience. Ladwig and the teachers at the camp this weekend met with space scientists and toured the Marshall Space Flight Center here. After a test, they were assigned roles in the mock space missons, some on the shuttle and others at mission control. They went through a day of maneuvers, taking turns manipulating a cockpit simulator. They also took turns being strapped in a turning and swiveling chair that simulated the difficulties of working in a weightless environment. Jim Conley, of West Union, S.C., said, “This is the future for the kids I teach. Of course, I’d jump at the chance to ride the shuttle myself.” “NASA says your chances are helped if you demonostrate that you’ve attempted to gain exceptional scientific experience,” he said. “And with what I’ve learned this weekend, I think it should give me an edge over other educators who haven’t done something like this.” Ladwig said that while only one teacher was to be selected for the shuttle flight, he sees a role for the 120 candidates to be selected in April. “I hope we will be able to involve them as ambassadors for our educational program back in their respective states,” he said. “If they make the cut at the state level, it is obvious they are top notch.”

GM spokesman Don Postma in Detroit said early today that callbacks of U.S. workers laid off because of parts shortages created by the strike should begin “by the end of the week. That’s what we’re hoping.” “We have to get our parts moving. We have to get the ‘pipeline’ filled, get the system of parts moving so we can get everything assembled,” he said. “And until that happens, we won’t be able to send them back to work.” Robert White, Canadian director for the UAW, said Monday the new agreement with General Motors of Canada Ltd. is a sign that “the days of rubber-stamping a U.S. agreement are now gone.” The contract gives GM workers an average raise of 2.25 percent in the first year the same as in the United States plus a “special Canadian adjustment” of

Woman survives in wrecked car four days without food, water

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 24-year-old woman whose truck plunged off a winding mountain road into a 150-foot ravine says she “prayed and hoped” she would live, but while spending four days without food or water she wrote in a diary, “So this is it.” “I did get religious,” Lori Ann Lessley said Monday from her bed at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale after her ordeal in the Angeles National Forest about 15 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. A supermarket checker who has a 5-year-old son, Mrs. Lessley said she “wondered what it would be like to die” after she found herself trapped in the steep ravine in chilly temperatures. “I prayed and I hoped, but I gave up about 10 this morning. Then when the helicopter found me, I cried and I hugged the guy,” said Mrs. Lessley. She was

25 cents per hour. Further adjustments would add 25 cents in the second year and 24 cents in the third year. At Local 222 in Oshawa, with 16,000 members the largest of the local unions, workers filled a hockey arena to debate the merits of the settlement and ask questions of White before voting. “I think it’s a pretty good contract,” Bill Whitfield, a GM assembler for 13 years, said as he left the meeting. “I think if we rejected it we’d be out till sometime next year.” During the GM negotiations, talks with Ford’s Canadian subsidiary were put aside. White said he would begin this week to talk with the UAW’s Ford bargaining committee about setting a strike date and resuming negotiations. The GM agreement “will be the Canadian pattern ,” he said.

rescued Monday morning. Authorities credited the woman’s resourcefulness for her survival. She wrapped herself in blankets and work clothes her husband left in the back of the truck and wrapped hqr feet with tape to ward off night temperatures that dipped into the 40s. “She did everything right. She had blankets with her, and she carried them with her to sleep in, and she was going downhill to find water,” said John Lapalm of the sheriff’s Montrose Search and Rescue Team. She was listed in stable condition and will remain at the hospital for about three days, spokeswoman said. “They took X-rays, and there were no fractures. It’s a miracle,” said the spokeswoman, Gretchen Wilson. “She does have lacerations and superficial wounds all over her body.”