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tf-tt 2Ujr (fcalutfitun fiailQ Sfeuw Tuesday Morning, August 5, 1986 OPEC supports plan for drastic production cuts to raise prices GENEVA (AP) OPEC oil ministers reached unanimous agreement Monday night on Iran's proposal for a drastic production cut to raise prices, thecartel's president said. Rilwanu Lukman, who also is the Nigerian oil minister, gave no details. 'You'll hear all about it tomorrow (Tuesday) he told reporters as he emerged from a Geneva hotel following the late-night meeting of the 13 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers. Another meeting was scheduled Tues day. Iran's Oil Minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh had told a news conference earlier he was very optimistic about the production cut plan The cartel's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, had remained among the few final holdouts.

Oil industry analysts consider a unanimous agreement by OPEC members on production cuts crucial to reversing a worldwide slump in prices, which have dropped from $32 a barrel late last year to as low as $7.35 for some grades. By not requiring production cutbacks from Iraq, its enemy in the 6- year-oid Persian Gulf war, Iran appeared to remove a major stumbling block to the quota-sharing agreement OPEC has been vainly seeking for years. Oil prices surged at the news. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, contracts for September delivery of West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, closed at $13.29 a barrel up $1 74 over Friday's close.

The events came as OPEC oil ministers entered the second week of talks in their fourth attempt in recent months to reach agreement on lowering output and boosting prices. Aghazadeh said he offered the proposal to the OPEC oil ministers' conference on Sunday. The plan seeks a return to the quotas used in October 1984 If approved, it would bring OPEC's combined output for 12 countries to 14 8 million barrels a day, he said. Including Iraq's output, combined production would total about 16 7 million barrels a day under the plan, he said. OPEC's current output is about 20 million barrels a day, intensifying a world glut Aghazadeh said the plan would be effective for at least two months when the ministers could meet again to discuss the pricestructure He said Iraq would be free to produce as much as it wants, but said- We can control Iraq's production by ourselves." Earlier, Kuwait announced it had agreed to the plan and was reducing its current production of 1.6 million barrels a day by 700 000 barrels, bringing the country's daily output to the October 1984 level of 900,000 barrels.

Kuwait said in a statement that it would honor Iran's proposal as aS Kuwait described the proposal as a temporary solu- High-ranking OPEC sources' who described the plan earlier Monday said it had been received with enthusiasm, but declined to say how many countries had agreed to it. If effective, the Iranian proposal was expected to gradually absorb the glut and thus boost prices over several months, market analysts in Geneva said. A vith Ecuador be exempted from the cutbacks said the OPEC sources, who would not be identified by name ad Wouk be given about 50 000 barrels a day more than tiie 183,000 it was producing in October 1984. Iraq's October 1984 quota was set at 1.2 million barrels a day Iraq is now estimated to be producing between 1.9 million and 2 million barrels daily Iran's old quota was 2.3 million barrels and it is generally estimated to be now pumping about 2.2 million barrels Both countries are believed to be at production capacity which has been severely affected by their war. There was no immediate reaction from Iraq, which so far has demanded a quota equal to Iran's.

Iran had said earlier it wanted two barrels for each additional barrel given to Iraq ked by AI eria ya and Gabon, has been demanding OPkt set binding quotas under a fixed lower ceiling. Shcharansky family allowed to go MOSCOW (AP) After months of delays, Soviet officials have told five relatives of freed dissident Anatoly Shcharansky that they can leave the country by Aug. 23, his brother said Monday. "The happy day at last has come and all my family's troubles are going to be at an end," Leonid Shcharansky said by telephone. "We are, of course, very happy." Anatoly Shcharansky was freed in an East-West prisoner exchange last February, after nearly nine years in Soviet jails.

The human rights activistnow lives in Israel with his wife, Avital He expressed joy at the news but also told a news conference in Jerusalem thazt he feared the Soviets would retract the permission at the last minute. Leonid, 39, said the family members still do not have the actual visas they will need to leave the country, only notification from the government visa agency that their applications for were approved. Word the family would be allowed to leave came about two weeks after Shcharansky's 77-year-old mother, Ida Milgrom wrote to the Soviet parliament complaining about delays. When Anatoly Shcharansky was freed, he said the arrangement included permission for his mother, brother, Leonid's wife Raya and their two children, Alexander, 14, and 1-year-old Boris to follow him. Shcharansky, 38, has no other close relatives in the SovietUnion.

In her letter to the Supreme Soviet, Mrs. Milgrom accused the government of playing a "political game," Raya Shcharansky said. Leonid Shcharansky said he was told last week that the family would be allowed to leave, four months after thev first applied for permission. Decisions on visa applications commonly take months in the Soviet Union, but the family had anticipated swifter action because of the reported agreement at the time of Anatolv's release. In an Israel radio interview Sunday, Anatoly Shcharanskv said he believed U.S.

diplomatic pressure may have been influenced the Soviets to honor the agreement on emigration of his amil He also linked the decision to Soviet-Israeli contacts" toward 1 plomatic relations which the Kremlin broke after the 1967 Middle East war. Shcharansky added, however, that he recalled previous broken promises and feared another delav "Up until the moment when my mother will be in Vienna where I will meet her probably, everything is possible he said Leonid said he and his family plan to join his brother in Israel He also said he was puzzled by the attention being paid them in the West. "I don't know why there is so much interest in me he said "I am not a famous dissident. I am just a dissident's brother "Of course, I worked for years on his behalf, and I guess 1 became known that way, but that's all I did really It's ciuite funny." r- ij trained as a computer programmer but lost his job in that field years ago because of his efforts to free his brother. Two killed as fire hits nuclear research center in South Africa Uth Africa (AP) Two deani were wer Fi burned in a fire at Pelindaba Nu" adding that radioac The fire broke out at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday in a technical services building a third of a mile from the Safari-l research reactor at the site about 22 miles west of Pretoria, near Hartebeestport Dam The accident was reported Monday by the government-run Atomic Energy iS fire WaS Put out almost immediately, reported Mick Ugthelm, communications manager at Pelindaba, where only whites "We're not sure as to what the cause was," he said ine ld deanil men W6re the Only nes inside the Aiding, wnicn was used for operations connected with manufacturing to Verwoe rd Hosptial in Pretoria, where died Sunday and the others were still under treatment The dead 2 5 leare employed at Pelindaba, which has made progress in using radiation to preserve food and in producing rad.oactiye isotopes for use in medicine, agriculture and industry aresecret ndaba whose "ranium enrichment operations The government's Bureau for Information said South Africa "experienced a virtually unrest-free day" on Sunday, after a week in which 19 unrest-related deaths were recorded, the lowest number in five weeks; and 16 people were injured, the lowest for any week of the nationwide sta te of emergency. "Although unrest still occurs in some areas of the country, there are clear indications that the aim of the state of emergency to restore peace and stability countrywide is being increasingly achieved," the bureau said. At least 213 people have died since the state of emergency was declared June 12. The bureau said no deaths and only one injury were reported in the 24-hour period ending a.m. Monday "the quietest day with regard to the number of incidents this year.

Only minimal damage was caused." Emergency ruies prohibit journalists from reporting actions of security forces without permission, publishing "subversive statements" and revealing the names of people detained. The unrest stems from this nation's apartheid system of racial separation, which does not let the 24 million blacks vote in national af- tairs. The million-member white minority controls the economy and maintainsseparate districts, schools and health services. A fire Sunday night extensively damaged a men's dormitory at the University of Transkei in Umtala. Umtata is the capital of one of the tribal homelands considered as independent by South Africa but not recognized by other nations.

Police said they did not know the cause but students said it was a gasoline bomb. Brig. Elias Kawe, head of Transkei security police, said four students were arrested, but he gave no details. Security troops moved onto the campus last week after nine people were killed in a rifle and grenade attack on the central police station in Umtata. In other developments a rally at the University of Durban on Monday.

5,000 students and community members gathered to protest the detention of 11 students under the emergency decree, which allows police to arrest and hold people without charge for an unlimited period of time -Annica van Gylswyk of Pretoria, a Swedish woman who has lived in bouth Africa for 30 years, said she was ordered to leave by Friday She was released July 31 after 46 days of detention and said she never was told why she was held or why she had to leave the country. Mrs. van Gylswyk is chairwoman of the Pretoria branch of Black Sash, a women's volunteer agency which organizes aid for victims of natural disaster and political violence, and gives advice, mainly to blacks and people of mixed race, on their rights under the apartheid system. Baby with new heart goes home LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The infant known as "Baby Calvin" 6 hJ nday Iess than two months aft er raised questions about the "I won't be happy until he enrolls in college," said Dr Con- the June and the baby infecftion and rejection," Mavroudis said, have to be on anti-rejection drugs like hfe But he an( Pafricia Cardin, said he will be treated just like another member of the family.

He's got two brothersbackatthefarmandthey'reanxioustoseehim Robert had been permitted out of the hospital on July 26 "for a test run to see how well he would react to conditions at home said Pam Greer, a spokeswoman for Kosair Children's Hospital "Itwassomethmgwhichwedidnotannounce." "This is a memorable day for us," said Mrs. Cardin. "It's a miracle to us that technology has come this far." The boy was born May 21 at Hardin Memorial Hospital in Enzabethtown and was brought to Kosair suffering from hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a defect that prevents the heart main pumping chamber from developing properly Without a transplant, doctors said the infant would have survived only a few weeks. The family initially shunned publicity and doctors called the infant Baby Calvin." Despite his parents' desire for anonymity, Robert's plight was brought to national attention when a California infant, Baby Jesse, who suffered from the same heart defect received a heart before Robert because of his parents' public ap-- peal for a donor. The situation spawned debate about the effectiveness of the national organ-donor network and prompted the Cardins to appeal to Congress to eliminate the role that publicity played in who received available organs first.

Cardin, 58, said Monday that he would like to "get involved again in telling the public about donor programs, but right now I'vegottosee that this boy does well." 744-3611 Houston (713) 488-1009 P.O. Box 628, Galveston, TX 77553 INDEX, RATES AND INFORMATION OFFICE HOURS Monday through Friday 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturday 9 A.M. to Noon Sunday Closed Classified in-column "Liner Ads" are accepted until 4:30 P.M to start in the next day's publication.

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