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Your newspaper is your best source of information. call 635-6357 | TERRACE-KITIMAT daily herald va “Saudi OPEC. holds oil prices | CARACAS (AP) ~ Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani said today he does not expect the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to raise prices beyond the individual increases announced recently by several mem- bers of the cartel. Yamani, addressing the’ ning session of an OPEC oi] ministers meeting in the Venezuelan capital, said that Arabia, which produces onethird of OPEC's oil, will not raise prices beyond the level of $24 US, announced last week and will maintain production at 9.5 million barrels a day during Iran says Canada won't get any more TORONTO (CP) — The Star says a top Iranian oil official has warned that Canada will not be given a -Grap of oi] toreplace supplies lost during the current Lran- U.S. crisis. The newspaper quotes the official in a Tehran release as saying this is a means of punishing Canada for *'not dealing with Iran directly in the past and relying instead on Big Daddy American oil companies."” The official, speaking on condition his name not be used, said he was involved in setting policies of the Natlonal Iranian Oil Co., which handles production and sales of Iran's oil, “We don't feel sorry for you if you're belng hurt now . . . Canada always main- tained an ostentatious licy, considering it an mgult to approach us directly. “But mow that you're in trouble, or soon will be, what’s your justification to complain? You have no chance whatsoever of get- ting a drop of oi] from us in the foreseeable future." What about... seat reed tents ae be a Peete the Tory price hikes? VANCOUVER (CP) — Qil companies are looking to Ot- tawa for some answer's about what to do about customers who paid the federal excise gasoline tax Imposed Tuesday but revoked on Friday. Company spokesmen say it could be several days before policies are worked out .giving instructions to retailers. . . Consumers paid roughl four cents a litre more for gas last week after the ex- cise tax was imposed. The tax was removed after the Progressive Conservative government of Joe Clark was defeated on Thursday on & non-confidence vote in the Commons. ° Roy Jolly of Chevron said Sunday the only way cash buyers of gasoline might get arefund isif they patronize a station regularly and if they remembered how much gas they purchased. Bulk and wholesale gasoline buyers and credit card customers with receipts will be able to collect refunds, Jolly said, Some retail outlets have — pald the tax and will not refund anything until the government or the oli companies give some di- rection. ; Roy Carson of Gulf said his company should have a policy worked out early in the week e week, Jolly said Chevron has not sent bills including the tax to its bulk buyers yet and will not do so until a program is worked out by the company's marketing division. Bill Oakes of Shell said his * company will encourage operators to give refunds, but has no authority to order them te do so. BEER sells SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — The label on the can fays BEER, So what? So that's all it says, just BEER In large black letters. Marketed by General Brewlng Co. of Vancouver, Wash., manufacturer of Lucky Lager, a sixpack of BEER sells for aboul $1.50, compared with $2.15 to $2.39 for most. brand-name beers. Sales with the generic label have “exceeded our fondest expectations," said Cari Mullen, executive vice- president and regional manager. the first three months of 1980. Earlier, Yamanl said his country will seek to malntain the $24 price “for as long as possible.’ Mana Said al Oteiba, oil minigter of the United Arab Bmirates, also said he would not presa for new increases, The latest increase by Saudi Arabia raised its pricea 33 per cent above previous levels but only slightly above the $23.50 ceiling price set by OPEC in. June, Other countries, such as Libya, passed that ceiling months ago and are pressing for further increases. “The tndustrialized countries can pay whatever weask,” Libyan Oil Minister Izzedin al Mabrak told a reporter, ‘They have shown they can stand a price in- crease,” Libya, which breached the OPEC celling of $23.50 U.S, a barrel in October, an- nounced another price in- crease Sunday. It Increase the price of ita highquality crude oil — prized for Its high yield of gasoline — by $3.73 to $30 a barrel retroactive to Nov. 1. Mabrak also said Libya, which ships almost half of the two milllon barrels it produces daily to the United States, © will reduce production next year, but he did not say how much. Indonesia also boosted its price by $2 to $25.50 for a 42- U.S.gallon barrel, Iran's official Pars news agency said the price of Iranian crude has been raised $5 to $28.50, but Iranian Oil Minister All Akbar Moinfar called the report a rumor. The pre-conference splurge of price increases was begun last week when a bloc of OPEC moderates, led by Saudi Arabia, bumped thelr prices up $6 to $24 a barrel, The rise from the current OPEC base price af $18 4 barrel represented a 33- per-cent increase. The Saudi-led bloc sald it raised prices early to head off even-greater price in- creases at the Venezuela conference. In addition to Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, the bloc | includes Venezuela, the. United: Arab Emirates..and . Qatar, Together they ac- count for about half of OPEC's daily output of 30 million barrels. Venezuela exports oil to Eastern Canada. However, the price increase won't hit Canadians immediately because the federal government sub- sidizes the price of imported oll. % Kuwait's oil minister said Sunday his country is “supporting’’ the $24 4 barrel price, and sources said Ecuador is likely to go along with it. But Algeria raised its base price to $26.27 a barrel in October and Nigeria went to $26.20 in November. The GPEC ministers are also expected to discuss the future of the U.S. dollar, the currency all OPEC countries except [ran use to transact business. IRAN TO FREE IRAQUIS TEHRAN (Reuter) — Iran agreed to free 16 Iraqi teachers detained in the southern port: of Khorranishahr a week ago after Iraq gave a 48- hour ullimatum that it would order all its na- tionale home, Iraqi diplomatic sources sald ay. . The sources said the Iranian foreign ministry assured Iraq within an hour after the ultimatum was issued that the teach- ers would be released, There waa no immediate confirmation from the ministry. ; The 16 teachera were detained at the Iraql achool in Khorramshahr alter local officials said explosives were found hidden In the bullding, The Iraqi government said earlier today that unless the teachera were released within 48 hours, all iragis living in Iran, including embassy staff, would be called home “for their own security and dignity." Relations between the two Middle East neigh- bors are at a low ebb because of Iranian aile- dations that Iraq is supporting autonomy- seeking Atabs in Iran’s Khuzestan province. NEWS BRIEFS LONDON (Reuter) — Participants in the Rhodesia peace conference are cloae to over-all agreement after developments during the weekend pushed the talks close to failure. Patriotic Frant guerrilla leaders who refused to signa ceasefire agreement on Saturday have been granted a further concession. Tt was put forward by Britain, which has acted a5 5,000 may return home TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) — About 5,000 residents returned to their homes after fireflghters irom six Detrolt suburbs extinguished a fire at a gasoline storage tank. The fire raged out of control for almost 24 hours Saturday and Sunday, sending flames and amoke into the sky and forcing evacuation of nearby residents, It finally was brought under control about 3 am. Sunday, authorities said, Two house trailers were destroyed in the fire, but no serious injuries were reported. Handicapped get break TORONTO (CP) — The Ontario Crippled Children's Centre is giving a Christmas gift that most young han- dicapped adults want dearly — their independence. Tt has leased an apartment from Metropolitan Toronto in a senior citizen's facility. There, two young men are relearning what life outside a hospital is like. John LeBlanc, a spina US. gets British. view WASHINGTON (AP) — President Carter is learning firsthand hew far Britain is prepared to go to help put presaure on Iran to release the 50.U.S. hostages. Carter was meeting today with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was paying her first official visit to Carter at the White House. Mrs, Thatcher arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington Sunday night, greeted by State chairman of the conference that began 14 weeks ago, ina last-ditch attempt to achleve a fuli settlement. "we believe this will clinch it,” a Britlsh | spokesman said. ; Under the British ceasefire plan, the guerrillas had been asked to assemble in 15 camps in remote regions of Rhodesia, leaving the heartland to the white- led Salisbury forces. About 4,000 of the evacuees returned home Sunday morning after spending the right with relatives or at a disaster shelter set up at a community centre, Another 1,000 residents of a nearby trailer park residents were sent home early Sunday night. The blaze, blamed by Clark Oil Co. officials on the successive failure of three safety devices, was con- tained when foam was pumped into the 1.2-million- gallon tank, fire officials sald, . bifida patient since birth, has spent moat of hia 25 years in hospitala. He Is paralysed from the waiat down — a result of a hole in the base of his spine. John Bell, 23, suffered severe head injuries in a car accident two years ago. Since the accident, “my speech and memory aren't that good at all,” he said with some difficulty. Secretary Cyrus Vance. She made no public statement. After Carter's decision Saturday to lift economic sanctions against Rhodesia, the question of co-operation against Iran was first on the agenda for Mrs. Thatcher's two-hour talk with the president. She also planned to visit Capitol Hill, hold a news conference, and attend a state dinner in her honor this evening. | vst LT ae | Five die in Ireland BELFAST (AP) — The Britiah army in Northern Treland had its worst day in four months Sunday with the death of five soldiers. A former militiaman also was killed in front of his 13-year- old son. . A land mine, apparently sel off by remote control and belleved to contain 500 pounds of explosives, blew an army LandRover off the road Sunday near Dungannon, 50 kilometres west of Belfast, killing ail four soldiers in the vehicle. A bomb killed a fifth soldier as he passed by an abandoned house near Tullydonnel, about 65 km southwest of Belfast, A gunman kiiled a former member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, a part- time auxiliary force, in Omagh, about £0 km west of. Belfast. The victim was selling fish and chips from a van and his young son wit- neased the killing. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the Dungannon land mine. Japan’s help needed TOKYO (Reuter) — The United States has renewed its request for Japanese co- operation in restricting financlal dealings with Iran, the foreign ministry said. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Carswell, who arrived Sunday, repeated the request to Foreign Minister Saburo Okita when the two met y. Carswell was quoted as saying that unless Japan and Western European countries co-operate, the current U.S. economic sanctions against Iran to help release 50 Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. will not be effective. - Concrete measures of co- operation were left for discussion later today bet- ween Carswell and Japanese Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita. A Christmas party HAMILTON (CP) — Organizers weren't gure it was the world’s largest, but 35,390 people stuffed themselves into a waterfront warehouse Sunday for what was not your average company Christmas bash, It was the annual Dofasco Christmas party and this year Canada's second largest steel company kept its employees and families entertained with everything from a trained bear to a trampoline act in a building the size of two football fields. — The Dofasco Santa Claus, ' meanwhile, was busy taking , orders from 5,170 children. - And from special booths, volunteers were handing out presents to children — 11,207, from infants to 16 year-olds, . Somewhere in the maze of people, horn-playing Bobby Gimby and Toronto Blue — Jays big bird mascot were - vying for attention. Four quints survive BESANCON, France (AP) — A 26-year-old French woman gave birth to quin- tuplels but one of the babies died, family sources sald. The condition of two of the surviving infants was causing concern, they sald, The three boys and two girls were born in Besancon early Sunday to Marlene - Grasset, The quints were born two months premature and welghed between 2.4 and 3.1 pounds. Gillespie not running TORONTO (CP) — Alastair Gillespie, energy minister in the former Liberal government, said Sunday he will not be a candi te In the Feb, 19 elec- on “T was there tor 11 years and four elections. Gillespie said, “It's somebody else's turn. I've done my share." Gillespie was defeated in - the May 22 election in Etobicoke Centre by Con- < servative Michael Wilson, later named minister of state for international trade.