Saudi Arabia s Vamarn Expects Oil Price Rise
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audi Arabia s Yarnani
Expects Oil Price Rise
GE/T/' A Sauch Ai ahia cul mini'
ter. Sheik /hmed Zaki Yam ni
said yesterday he expects oil prices to
go up despite his government s at
tempts to hold them in cheek
Yarnani's comments came or the
eve of an emergCnc) r eeting of the
l3 member Organization of Pets ol um
Exporting Countries here to try to
halt the 01 1 ice free for all that has
foIIo ed Ii an's i evolution.
Meanwhile, OPEC Deputy Secretary
General Fadhil Chalabi called ioi
higher oil prices and a new p11CC
sti 'ustui 'C up r ding hca icr, lowes
quality oil because it is ii sw plus.
He said that since light, better quaI
ity oils hi ug a premium in the mar
lcd fos then desirability, then hea ier
ciudes should cojnmand a premium o
encourage greater investment in the's
production
Kurdisli Agreement Reaclie
TEHRAN—Iranian i eligious and SHLI zAKJ yA IA
government leaders announced a 1 LC to a t
seven paint plan to gi e more self rule
to the country's Kuid .c, ho staged a
bloody thi cc day ups ising last week in
the westei n town of Sanandaj
The plan, broadcast on Ihe national
iadio, piomised the Kurds one of
Iran's many minorities a say in
drawing up the new constitut 1 on fiee
dorn to continue the r own culture
language and di ess and participation
in decisions Coflei mug Iran as a
whole,
Countd o ii for Bhu 110 BegiH
1 AWTALP1NDI, Pakistan—Prison
ofticials served former prime minis cc
Zulliqar All Bhutto with a b ack was
rant,” offidiahl notif ing hIm that the
seven clay countdown to his execution
had begun
The supi ‘mc ourt refused to I
% C SC J31 utto S pOflViCtiUfl br plait in'
the murder of a political ri al liui
years ago.
Under Pakistani Ias Bhutto can sip
peal for clemency to Piesident Mo
ha 'mmed Zia ul Haq, the army general
who oveathiew him two years a 11 o
Bdt Bhutto has said he will not appcal
to'Zia for mercy.
I Jiaii Official Dies
ROME—italy's D e p u ty Premier
Ugo La Malta died in a hospital eai by
Monday. He was 75
The leader of the iual Republican
Party had been in a coma since early
Saturda after suffering a massive
brain hemos rhage.
La Malfa was one of Italy's most
respected politicians. He went into a
coma just three days after being ap
painted vice premier and ministel for
economic planning in Italy's 41st gov
etument since World War IL
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