The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, February 14, 1979-Page 3
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Bus schedule correction
The times listed in the first line of the bus schedule printed in
yesterday's Daily were from five to 18 minutes off. Three runs were
added to the North Campus schedule as of Monday. The correct
schedule:
Washtenuw Baits Bursley NW I-IV NW V
12:45 12:55 12:57 1:02 1:07
1:25 1:35 1:37 1:42 1:47
2:15 2:25 2:27 2:32 2:37
CAR TER TRAVELS TO MEXICO
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Supply of energy is big issue
WASHINGTON (AP) - When
President Carter and Mexican
Presdent Jose Lopez Portillo lay their
cards on the table in Mexico City this
week, Lopez Portillo will be holding two
high trumps - oil and natural gas.
They give Mexico a strong hand in
dealing for U.S. cooperation on
trade, immigration and other
touchy issues.
IT IS EASY to cast recent U.S.-
Mexican contacts in an apparently
simply mold. Mexico offered to sell the
United States natural gas at $2.60 per
thousand cubic feet; the U.S. turned it
down because the price was too high,
Mexico got miffed and threatened to
sell elsewhere; and the critics said U.S.
Energy Secretary James Schlesinger
had bungled a chance for more energy.
But that is much too simple a descrip-
tion of U.S.-Mexican relations on
energy, even at a time of uncertainty
over Mideast oil supplies. U.S. officials
have emphasized that Carter would not
try, on his visit to Mexico starting
today, to negotiate a natural gas price.
And Carter said in a news conference
Monday that broader questions of
timing and pricing must be worked out.
Jorge Diaz Serrano, head of Mexico's
government petroleum monopoly,
estimated in 1977 that his country's
production could increase by some 1.1
million barrels of oil and 2 billion cubic
feet of gas daily by 1982. But not all that
may be exported; Mexico may use
some, perhaps most of it, for its own
developipent.
INTERVIEWED IN Business Week
magazine last month, Lopez Portillo
said U.S. planners "are in for a rude
awakening" if they expect Mexican oil
to solve the United States' energy
problems.
The United states now buys some 80
per cent of Mexico's oil exports and
might want more, expecting to pay
prevailing world prices but gaining a
closer, more reliable supply than with
Middle East oil.
Most of the apparent friction has cen-
tered on natural gas.
In August 1977, Mexico agreed to sell
six U.S. companies 2 billion cubic feet
of gas a day, some 3 per cent of an-
ticipated U.S. needs in 1980 when
deliveries were to begin. But Mexico
was charging $2.60 per thousand cubic
feet, a premium price pegged to the
cost of the nearest alternative fuel,
light oil.
SCHLESINGER BLOCKED the deal
while Congress worked out a U.S. gas-
pricing policy; then Mexico withdrew
the offer, suggesting it might sell the
gas elsewhere or use it at home.
Meanwhile, however, Mexico had
already started construction of a gas
pipeline to the border which now lies
unfinished, and some Mexican gas is
reportedly being burned wastefully for
lack of a market.
When the new U.S. energy law was
passed last November, Mexico's asking
price turned out to be about one-third
higher than the U.S. domestic gas price
ceiling. Lopez Portillo says he will not
back down and, to make matters worse,
Canada says it will raise its gas price of
$2.16 per thousand cubic feet if Mexico
gets more money.
CARTER SEEMED to indicate Mon-
day that the United states may be even
more concerned about Mexico's linking
gas prices to the price of fuel oil, which
could make gas prices indirectly sub-
ject to decisions by the foreign cartel
OPEC, which already dictates world oil
prices.
But price it not the only problem.
While Mexican natural gas is looking
for a market, so is U.S. natural gas.
Under the new energy act, some 2.7
billion cubic feet of natural gas a day is
expected to become available at
home. Also, there are large, un-
developed natural gas reserves in
Alaska and construction of a pipeline to
the "lower 48" has been approved.
THESE SUPPLIES could supplant
the need for large amounts of Mexican
gas in the 1980s. On the other hand,
Mexican gas could be imported, in ad-
dition, to displace some Middle East oil
imports.
U.S. officials have said Carter would
seek to match Mexico's timetable for
oil and gas production to the expected
U.S. market. And Carter said Monday
he wanted policies "predictable on
delivery dates and also on price
schedules, and we'll try to be a good
customer."
Mexican oil and gas exports could
have other strings attached too - ones
linked to U.S. attitudes toward jobless
Mexicans who enter the United States
illegally and seek work.
IF THE UNITED States gets tough on
aliens, Mexico can ask: How can we,
provide jobs at home if you refuse to
buy our gas, denying us capital for
development.
Highlighting another sore spot last
March, some 20 U.S. farmers briefly
blockaded the Mexican border near
Nogales, Ariz., in a demonstration
against competing imports of Mexican
farm produce.
Mexico, struggling with a foreign
trade deficit of its own, wants to protect
and increase its sales of produce in the.
United Sitates. If the United States
wants more Mexican petroleum, iL
could be asked to buy a bigger shopping
bag of Mexican tomatoes and water-
melons.
In addition to the policies on aliens;
and imports, the United States wilt
have to deal with Mexico's sensitivity to
any hint of U.S. domination.
Last April, U.S. Ambassador Patrick
J. Lucey said Mexico had turned down!
$2 billion in U.S. aid -- because it
did not want to be "dependent on the
United States."
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Cupid 's capers
Cupid's arrows are flying in more than one direction today, and the
various Valentine's Day activities around campus prove it. One of his
arrows landed at Alice Lloyd, where a blind-dating service will match
up residents there this weekend. Alice Lloyd residents filled out forms
which asked them to describe themselves and their ideal date. Arrows
will also travel along radio waves. WCRN-AM 650 will air a special
edition of the Kevin Wartell Program, "Valentine's Day '79" tonight
between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. anyone can call Wartell at 763-3535 and
request a favorite love song. And a couple at South Quad will be united
during a mock wedding ceremony, complete with a reception and a
"Guess the Brife" raffle. Craig Satterlee, known around South Quad
as a practical joker, is the groom. On his list of jokes is his own
"assassination," which was followed by a "wake," and a miraculous
"resurrection." "Someone asked, 'What will we do next term?' I said
it would have to be a fate worse than death. And since Valentine's Dal
falls this month, we decided to have a wedding." To offset the cost of
the "wedding," Satterle is selling raffle tickets for $1 apiece. Guests
who purchase tickets are asked to guess at the bride's identity, which
has remained a secret. A correct guess nets the winner half the
proceeds of the raffle. Presumably, the bride's "parents," South Quad
building director Mary Bewley and her husband Hugh, already know
the name of the bride,
But were they all old enough
to drink.?
Although some Ann Arbor landlords may have acquired a reputation
over the years for being less than kind to their tenants, at least one
building owner apparently has a heart. When a boiler sprung a leak at
the Arbor Forest apartments Sunday, the building's residents were
suddenly without heat. Acting with unusual speed, building owner
Vernon Hutton dispatched plumbers to work around the clock until the
breakdown was fixed Monday. But lest there still be some tenants
angry over a day without heat, Hutton threw a "warming-up party"
Monday night, providing free beer to revitalize the somewhat chilled
tenants.:
PIR GIM elections
Elections for the nine-member board of PIRGIM will continue today
from noon until 5 p.m. in the Fishbowl. Any student who has paid a
PIRGIM fee in the last two terms is eligible to vote.
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Take ten
On Feb. 14, 1969, the Justice Department urged the Supreme Court
to force the integration of privately operated recreation organizations.
Citing the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1964, the government said in a
legal brief that blacks have the right to purchase admission to
privately-owned clubs that are, in effect, open to almost any whites
while being closed to blacks. Meanwhile, local landlords were plan-
ning their strategy for a tqnant rent strike planned for the next day
and expected to involve nearly 1,500 student tenants.
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Happenings
FILMS
Ann Arbor Film Co-op - Dr. Strangelove, 7 p.m. and 19:20 p.m.,
Heavens Above, 8:40 p.m. Angell Hall Auditorium A.
Center for Japanese Studies, An Actor's Revenge, 8 p.m., Old Arch
Aud.
PERFORMANCES
Canterbury Loft, Songs from Broadway Musicals sung by Jon Zim-
merman, 8p.m., 332 S. State Street.
PTP - The Inspector General, 8 p.m., Power Center.
School of Music - Percussion Recital, 8 p.m.,,Recital Hall.
LECTURES'v
International Centr - "Arrival Overseas: Disorientation and How
to Cope", noon, International Center Recreation Room.
CEW - Pauline Stone reviewing "The Black Women in America,"
and "Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated
Society," 2 p.m., Michigan Union Pendleton Room.
YSA - Shelis Ostrow, "What is Socialism?", 7:30 p.m., 1yichigan
Unidn Anderson Room D.
MISCELLANEOUS
Women's Swimming Championships - Timers needed Feb. 15-17 for
Big Ten Championship, contact Dave Ellis 994-5932 or Rick Hitt 764-
0722.
The Ark - Hoot Nite, open mike, 1421 Hill.
WRCN-AM 650 - Special edition of the Kevin Wartell Show, "Valen-
tine's Day '79", call in your favorite song, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., 763-3535.
Mechanical marvel.
He walks, he talks, he even plays TV games on his chest screen.
Argon, the ultimate robot-friend has arrived. Gene Beley and Ray
Raymond invented Argon last June in California and now market
robots for use as entertainment-promotion gimmicks. Argon's plastic
body moves on special wheels, and he can make machine noises and
print messages across his chest screen. Beley, who is from California,
said Argon cost $50,000 to make, but his descendents cost only $10,000.
Within 10 years, according to Beley, the cost of building a robot will
fall to a point where private ownership would be practical. Perhaps
robots can be programmed to take final exams.
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Guerrillas blamed
in attack on plane
SALISBURY (Reuter) - Black and
white Rhodesian leaders, angered by
the destruction of another airliner and
the death of all 59 people aboard,
yesterday vowed revenge against the
nationalist guerrillas who apparently
shot it down.
Monday's crash was the worst air
disaster in Rhodesia's history.
PRIME MINISTER Ian Smith today
said it seemed clear that the Air
Rhodesia plane was shot down by
guerrilla fire, and he called the act bar-
barism.
In Nairobi, guerrilla leader Joshua
Nkomo said if the crash was caused by
ground fire, his men must have been
responsible.
Nkomo, joint head of the Patriotic
Front fighting for the overthrow of the
Salisbury government, had flown to
Kenya from Ethiopia, where he was
quoted by Addis Ababa Radio as saying
firmly that his guerrillas shot down the
plane.
LAST SEPTEMBER Nkomo also
claimed responsibility for shooting
down a Viscount plane on the same
route, with the loss of 48 lives.
One black and two white ministers of
Rhodesia's interim government
pledged retaliation, after telling repor-
ters they were sickened by what they
saw at the crash scene yesterday.
"No Christian can look at this without
a feeling of hatred," said white Com-
bined Operations Minister Hilary
Squires. "Rhodesians would like to see
totally just and warranted retribution."
BLACK JOINT Transport Minister
James Chikerema, a former guerrilla
leader, declared: "This tragedy is so
serious that if it is established again
that Nkomo's people did it, Nkomo
should not weep when we retaliate. And
you can rest assured that we will
retaliate."
Informed sources said it appeared
that the plane - flight RH 827 from the
northern lakeside resort of Kariba to
Salisbury - had been brought down by
a ground-to-air missile.
Chikerema's white joint minister,
William Irvine, said it appeared the
British-made Viscount had just drop-
ped out of the sky. It had hit the ground
violently and vertically and the
wreckage was squashed and'compac-
ted into a small area, he said.
"YOU CAN SEE the outline of the
plane embedded in the ground," Irvine
said. "There is nothing recognizable
left- there must have been an intense
fire."
"I would like nothing better than to
take James Callaghan and his
colleagues to see what these murders
have done," Irvine added.
His was one of several Rhodesian
voices raised in anger at President Car-
ter and Prime Minister Callaghan over
their governments' policies on
Rhodesia.
IN LONDON yesterday, Callaghan
said the incident was one of a series of
barbaric acts, which he said have not
been confined to one side.
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