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. ! 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 J 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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