N ovem ber 2, 1989 • P o rtla n d O b se rv e r • P age 7
OPEC President To Visit Atlanta
ATLANTA--The president o f the
Organization o f Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC), His Excellency Al-
haji Rilwanu Lukman, is scheduled to
visit Atlanta in early November.
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This visit is a icsult o f an invitation
extended to Dr. Lukman by Morehouse
President Leroy Keith and Atlanta-based
businessman Richm ond Aggrey, presi
dent o f Basic Resource Services Ltd., an
international oil company.
Dr. Lukman, who was unanimously
elected president o f OPEC in June 1986,
is currently serving in an unprecedented
fifth term. He took the helm as the o r
ganization faced a crisis in pricing insta
bility in the world's crude oil markets. In
addition, a major w ar was raging be
tween tw o OPEC members (Iran and
Iraq), and overproduction by both OPEC
and non-OPEC members was rampant.
As a result of the chaos within OPEC
and the drastic drop in the world's crude
oil prices, the energy-producing U x states
of Texas, O klahom a and Louisiana were
hit hard with defaulting energy loans
and the savings and loan crisis.
Lukman urged his fellow OPEC
m inisters to restrain their oil production
in their respective countries. By seeking
a consensus among members, Lukman
set a collective production ceiling and
instituted a monitoring system to dis
suade cheating.
His diplomacy brought a sense of
calm to the divergent members o f OPEC
that has resulted in generally stabilized
oil prices. He is credit ed by most W est
ern oil analysts for bringing a sense of
reason within the organization.
Lukman is alos N igeria's minister
of petroleum resources. He was appointed
to the post at a time when that nation was
facing an econom y-threatening crude oil
crisis.
N igeria has a population o f more
than 100 million, and it is the fourth
largest supplier o f crude oil to the United
States. In 1986, Lukman convinced the
Nigerian governm ent to cut its petro
leum exports to 1.3 million barrels per
day to comply with OPEC restrictions.
This action, seen by many as a sacrifice
on the part o f the N igerians, contributed
to the overall stability o f the world's oil
prices.
Lukman realized that Nigeria's
economy was overly dependent on the
export o f crude oil and was at (he mercy
o f the world's fragile state o f supply and
dem and for energy. As the country
grappled with the drop in hard currency,
Lukman began plotting a new energy
strategy.
Two years later, with the installa
tion o f a state-of-the-art fourth refinery,
Nigeria expanded its options in crude oil
production. This project made it pos
sible to establish joint v e n tu re s with
American and European com panies for
marketing finished, refined products.
Lukman is a graduate of the U ni
versity o f London's Royal School of
Mines where he received dual degrees in
engineering and English. He also did
post-graduate studies at the University
o f Mining and M etallurgy in Leoben,
Austria, and returned to England to
com plete a degree in econom ics at the
University of London. In 1988, he was
awarded an honorary doctorate in chemi
cal engineering from the University of
Bologna in Italy.
During his stay in Atlanta, Lukman
will visit M orehouse College and sev
eral local attractions, including the King
and C arter centers.
Lukman will spend Thursday, Nov.
2, at M orehouse, the nation's only his
torically black, all-male liberal arts col
lege. His itinerary for the day will in- •
elude speaking during an 11 a.m. assem
bly in the Martin Luther King Jr. Inter
national Chapel and lecturing in eco
nomic classes.
Morehouse College, founded in
1867, has an enrollm ent o f more than
2,500 students and is noted for its tradi
tion o f academic excellence. Among the
8,000 M orehouse alumni are civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Eb
ony magazine executive editor Lerone
Bennett; Atlanta's first black mayor
M aynard Jackson; Health and Human
Services Secretary Dr. Louis Sullivan;
Olympian Edwin Moses; and filmmaker
Spike Lee.
Dow Chemical Joins Forces
With The NAACP To Increase
Black Organ Donors
BA LTIM O RE-Black communities
in five major cities across the country
will soon learn how they can com bat the
life-threatening shortage o f black organ
and tissue donors as the NAACP and
The Dow Chemical Company launch a
Black Donor Education Program.
Dr. Benjamin Hooks, executive
director of the NAACP, solidified the
organization's com m itm ent to this criti
cal issue in his announcem ent today that
pilot cities-N ew York, Detroit, M em
phis, Baltimore and St. Louis - have
been selected and grass-roots donor
education efforts are underway.
"Our National Health Committee
has identified donor awareness as a top
priority for 1990," said Dr. Hooks.
"Afflicted with the highest incidence of
high blood pressure and kidney failure
o f any racial group, blacks have a dis
proportionately high need for kidney
transplants; therefore, blacks must learn
to help themselves by increasing the
pool o f potential donors."
Dr. Hook's announcement comes
one month after health com m ittee repre
sentatives from the pilot cities attended
a Dow-sponsored training session con
ducted by experts from the transplant
com m unity on how to implement a suc
cessful donor education campaign.
"Our primary goal is to increase
blacks' support o f organ donation across
the country through educational efforts
developed for area schools, churches,
community organizations and depart
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ment o f motor vehicles offices," said
Vicky Suazo, Dow’s public affairs m an
ager.
In addition to providing ongoing
counsel and step-by-step guidelines on
how to implement and sustain an effec
tive donor aw areness campaign, Dow is
providing brochures, videotapes, radio
public service announcements and do
nor cards to each participating NAACP
branch.
"It is with sincere appreciation to
Dow for its support o f this life-saving
initiative that the NAACP participates in
this program," said John Arradondo, M.D.,
chairman of the NAACPs National Health
Committee. "W e have an obligation as a
national organization to do everything
possible to increase the quality o f life
available to African American people.
W e look forward to success in these pilot
cities so that we may expand to addi
tional front line cities in the future."
The Dow/NAACP Black Donor
Education Program is part o f Dow'sTake
Initiative Program on transplantation, a
national public education effort designed
to encourage people to consider becom
ing an organ and tissue donor. It is modeled
after the W ashington, D.C. Organ Donor
Program, an organization established in
1982 under the auspices o f the National
Kidney Foundation of the National Capital
Area, created to educate die local black
com m unity about the importance of
donation and transplantation.
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