UPI Roundup
| Libya nationalizes three U.S. oil firms
BEIRUT — Libya announced Monday it is completely
nationalizing three American oil companies in “a severe
£ blow to American interests in the Arab world,’’ Tripoli Radio
5: said. Tripoli Radio said the three companies involved were
>: Texaco, Asian of California and Libyan-American The
£ government of Col. Moammar Khadafy last September
S: nationalized 51 per cent of all three companies, along with
•£ several others, and warned that it would take over 100 per
g: cent if the companies did not agree to the nationalization
g: terms. The Tripoli Radio news broadcast that announced the
g: new takeovers Monday pointed out they coincided with the
Washington conference of major oil importing nations The
three companies involved have only about five per cent of
£ Libya's daily oil production of approximately two million
£ barrels.
£ Public servants strike in Germany
BONN —Tens of thousands of public sen.-ices employees
£ went on strike Monday, shutting down most municipal public
S: transportation and garbage collection in West Germany The
% workers are demanding a 15 per cent pay increase. Govem
ment and union representatives scheduled another round of
£ talks at which the government planned to increase its
£ previous offer of a 9.5 per cent raise
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| Iran, Iraq continue border skirmish
:$ BEIRUT — New border clashes between Iraq and Iran
£ were reported Monday in the wake of fighting involving
£ planes, tanks, artillery and infantry that left scores dead and
£ wounded according to official communiques from Baghdad
£ and Tehran Iraqi military sources were quoted in the state
£ controlled press as saying that Iranian forces were waging
unpremeditated attacks and that supporting Iranian planes
£: were “repeatedly violating Iraqi air space.’’ Iran was con
tinuing to mass troops on the border, the sources in Baghdad
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Washington conference opens
Oil-consuming nations disagree
on best solution to fuel crunch
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger, opening a conference of 13 big
oil-consuming countries, said Monday the world
must cooperate in meeting the energy shortage or
suffer economic collapse.
But French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert
said his country could not follow the U.S. formula
presented by Kissinger, which called for the con
sumer nations to present a united front against the
Arab oil boycott in broadened conferences to crane.
Jobert and other foreign ministers attending the
two-day conference urged that the oil-producing
nations be promptly included in the global energy
talks. and several suggested the proper forum
would be the United Nations.
Kissinger, convening the meeting at the State
Department, said “these global dilemmas cannot
be avoided through exclusive bilateral
arrangements’- such as France and Japan are
making and seeking.
Jobert, speaking later, said Kissinger’s
proposal for still another session of consumer
nations-along with underdeveloped countries-before
calling in the producer countries, would increase
Arab suspicions that the western industrialists were
ganging up on them.
“We must not appear before the entire world as
seeking to define alone a ‘new course’ which would
inevitably lead to a confrontation or a conflict with
the producing countries and maybe all the
developing countries,’’ Jobert said. “Let us not seek
to establish or to impose a new- world energy or
der ”
Kissinger had cautioned the Arab states they
might lose their global market by forcing user
nations into energy independence, although “It
seems clear the enlightened self-interest of con
sumers and producers need not and should not be in
conflict.”
Jobert suggested a softer approach, saying
France was “quite prepared to participate in an
exchange of views on several aspects of the energy
problem, but we must not speak for others, that is to
say, to deal with matters that do not depend on our
own will, the will of highly industrialized consuming
countries.
“Judging from tne apprenensions mat me
meeting in which we are taking part today has
raised in various developing countries,” Jobert
said. “I would think that the reasons that have led
France to stress the competence of the United
Nations to deal with the energy crisis have lost
neither their weight nor their timeliness.”
Several other foreign ministers took issue with
the initial all-consumer approach after Kissinger,
as chairman of the conference, said in opening
remarks:
“The United States has called this conference
for one central purpose—to move urgently to
resolve the energy problem on the basis of
cooperation among all nations Failure to do so
would threaten the world with a vicious cycle of
competition, autarky (going it alone), rivalry and
depression such as led to the collapse of world order
in the '30s.
“The United States declares its willingness to
share available energy in times of emergency or
prolonged shortages.” he said. “We would be
prepared to allocate an agreed portion of our total
petroleum supply provided other consuming
countries with idigenous production do likewise.”
Foreign Minister Max Van Der Stoel of the
Netherlands, speaking for the European economic
community, suggested the conference be followed
up quickly with talks before the United Nations with
the producing nations taking part.
Oil-producing states warn against
possible iconfrontation ’ over oil
VIENNA (UPI)—A spokesman
for the world’s major oil ex
porting nations said Monday that
the Washington meeting of 13
leading oil consuming nations
was called “in a context of
threats” and could lead to a
confrontation between producers
and consumers of oil.
“It is clear that this conference
has been convoked in such a
context of threats that it could
result in a confrontation," Ab
derrahmane Khene, secretary
general of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) said
Khene said his statement,
made at a lunch with newsmen,
reflected the official stand of
OPEC's 12 members, which
together produce 85 per cent of
world oil imports.
He declined to speculate on
what form the oil producer
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take
“It will be decided only as a
reaction to what the group
meeting in Washington agrees
on,” Khene said.
In Tunis, Tunisia, the Libyan
Press Agency reported that the
question of secret deliveries of
Arab oil to the United States will
be examined by Arab oil
ministers at their scheduled
meeting in Tripoli, Libya, on
Thursday.
The agency said there were
reports that clandestine
deliveries to the United States
totalled 700,000 barrels a day.
The Washington conference
clearly was a source of concern to
the Persian Gulf Oil producers.
The Shah of Iran, the second
biggest oil producer on the
Persian Gulf, said in a recent
interview if the conference gave
“the slightest evidence of want
ing confrontation with the oil
producers they will regret it very
dearly.”
The Libyan state radio
described it as an “aggressive
act against the oil producing
states, particularly the Arab
states. It is an American trap to
sanction American tutelage in
Europe, on the one hand, and to
internationalize oil resources by
means of force on the other.”
OPEC’s Khene said
Washington “was the wrong
place” to discuss the energy
crisis. He said the United
Nations, where China and the
Soviet Union could take part,
would be a better forum.
OPEC’s members are: Abu
Dhabi, Algeria, Ecuador, In
donesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,
Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia and Venezuela.