Wednesday, J u [y 19, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine U.S. firm signs deal for use of Soviet oil Skylab facilities viewed Two members of the Skylab crew relax while showing newsmen around an Orbital Workshop mockup at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. The workshop is part of the Skylab program, the aim of which is to put three men in space for 28 days. COUNCIL WARY: Miami police chief set for GOP cony. MIAMI BEACH, (M - Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Po- merance is optimistic that he'll be able to keep things just as cool during the Republican Na- tional Convention next month as he did for the Democratic conclave last week. He plans to use the same methods -- methods that al- ready have drawn criticism from some people worried about marijuana smoking and nude bathing.' Discussing" the Democratic meeting, Pomerance said, "I think that the climate and the tone set this time will be a sort of a pattern for the next con- vention," adding, "The general law enforcement posture will re- main the same." "Throughout the whole event, we established priorities, and the highest priority was the public safety of the delegates. the citizens and the protesters." The week-long convention re- sulted in only two arrests. Two policemen were slightly injured; During the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, there were 68 arrests and 1,381 pro- testers, policemen and bystand- era were Injured. There are movements under way, however, to tighten secur- ity during the GOP Conven- tion. They stem from charges that there was marijuana smok- ing and nude bathing in the 36- acre Flamingo Park where the Miami Beach City Council al- lowed about 1,500 nondelegates to camp. Dade C o u n t y Republican Chairman Robert Rosasco said: "Our position is that everyone, delegate and nondelegate, be treated equally under the law. "During the Democratic Con- vention, there was only lip serv- ice given to this equal treat- ment concept." Rosasco said: "Letting them assemble there gives them add- ed opportunity to plan and or- ganize. If they are kept dis- persed, they won't be such a threat." The council has yet to deter- mine whether to open the park to protesters next month. Po- merance said he understood that state and national Republican leaders would leave it up to lo- cal officials. Attorney Ellis Rubin, head of a group called Operation Back- bone, said he feels the same way, and will ask the council to refuse camping permission during the Aug. 21-24' GOP Convention. More than 3,000 protesters showed up for the Democratic Convention, but more are ex- pected next month. Pomerance said: "There are some crazies mixed in, but those are the same ones who would start a riot at a circus or a rock concert or the scene of an acci- dent. Political philosophies have absolutely no bearing on it." Sinatra quizzed. by Hous WASHINGTON (') - Enter- tainer Frank Sinatra told House investigators Tuesday he knows nothing about the Cosa Nostra and insisted he merely made an investment in a New England racetrack allegedly backed by organized-crime money. In fact, said Sinatra, he with- drew his $55,000 investment when he learned that he had been elected, without his per- mission, as a director and of- ficer of now-defunct Berkshire Downs in Hancock, Mass. Sinatra appeared for 90 min- utes before a standing-room- only crowd at a hearing of the House Select Crime Committee. Even before he made his ap- pearance, Sinatra won a pro- cedural point with the com- mittee when he refused to tes- tify in the presence of radio- television or cameras. Chairman Claude Pepper (D- Fla.) agreed to the restriction even though the rule Sinatra invoked pertains only to sub- poenaed witnesses and the en- tertainer appeared voluntarily. Sinatra ignored a scheduled appearance before the commit- tee June 8 and flew to London reportedly to close a movie deal and to watch a horse race. Committee counsel Joseph Phillips said he couldn't under- stand why Sinatra had trouble remembering meetings he had with Gaetano "Three Finger Brown" Luchese, late boss of a New York Mafia family. Sinatra said he had met Luchese when he entertained at the 500 Club in Atlantic City, N.J., but he couldn't remember the details. LONDON (A)-An American industrialist has announced a five-year technical cooperation agreement for using Soviet oil and natural gas that could be- come a major landmark in East- West trade worth billions of dollars. Dr. Armand Hammer, chair- man of the board of Occidental Petroleum Corp. of Los Angeles, told a news conference yesterday that the agreement was signed in Moscow,. Juiy 14, Occidental is the ninth larges U.s. petrol- um company. Hammer refused to put a price tag on the agreement, but an Occidental source said: "This is the biggest Russian deal ever completed by an American com- pany Oil industry sources here es- timated that a deal to explore, produce, transport and market Soviet crude oil and natural gas from the rich developing Tyu- men fields in western Siberia could be worth $3 billion. This was the figure put on the biggest foreign oil deal with the Soviets to date, a 20-year agreement by ENI of Italy sign- ed in 1969 to exchange pipeline and other equipment for Soviet gas. Hammer said the Occidental deal was one of, the first major. break-throughs resulting from the -decision tken in May by President Nixon and Soviet leaders in Moscow to expand technical cooperation. "In 51 years of dealing with the Soviet government, I have never found the grounds more favorable for the rapid expan- sion of East-West trade than exists at present," Hammer de- clared. The agreement Hammer an- nounced covered four other fields besides oil and gas-agri- cultural fertilizers and chemi- cals, metal treating and metal plating, design and building of hotels, and utilization of solid wastes. Talks on technical cooperation in all these fields'are due to be- gin in Moscow Sept. 11, Hammer reported. The American industrialist re- fused to give precise details on the deal on grounds that he was barred from doing so by the terms of the agreement with the Russians. Experts here said the most important part was likely to be technical and financial assist- ance by Occidental in return for supplies of Soviet crude oil and natural gas. The building of one 3,000-mile pipeline from the Tyumen fields alone is a $1 billion project. Such a project would open up the prospect of Soviet oil and gas flowing eventually to the eftwon ha moder lsfin - DIAL 5-6290 yN ONEA To EuL? A PTEit oGt~aPoviC4 paltpucTon TECHNICOLOR 9'l'rom Warner Bras., United States. The idea is not as remote as it may have sounded once. The Russians supply all the oil and gas for Iceland. Even U.S. Air Force planes based near Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital, tank up on Russian fuel before taking off to shadow Soviet spy planes. Hammer said the agreement with the Russians was being announced jointly here and in Moscow. For domestic reasons, the Rus- sians often delay such an- nouncements and Hammer has ta much experience with Soviet officials to make any disclosures before arrangements are firmly set. Hammer said the agreement is not restricted to the - five areas mentioned and could eventually involve other firms on a consortium basis. He addedi it includes compensation for Massive. strikesI By The Associated Press Electrical service was restored to 200,000 Brooklyn residents yesterday after a steamy 11-hour blackout that occurred during the summer's first Northeast power crisis. New England was staggered by a record demand for electricity as a result of a four-dlay heat wave. Six of Consolidated Edison's 10 feeder cables broke down in Brooklyn, leading to what was described as the worst blackout since the 1965 Northeast power failure. All power was stopped at 9:53 on Monday and with it went re- frigerators and air-conditioning deposits transfer of scientific and tech- nical know-how, and the sale of patents and licenses. Occidental is also interested in other com- modities such as Soviet chrome and nickel ore, Hammer noted. Terms of payment were not disclosed, but Hammer's re- marks implied an exchange of Soviet raw material in return for Occidental equipment and know- how. Other firms in the West and Japan have turned down chances to exploit Soviet gas and oil, partly because of the tremen- dous investment costs in build- ing long pipelines over rough terrain, and partly because pay- ment would have to be based on credit and future production. The Soviet Ministry of the Petroleum industry estimated in 1970 total gas reserves in the Tyumen fields at 11 trillion cubic meters. blackout ;rooklyn units while temperatures soared as high as 80 degrees. Service was not restored until 11 am. yesterday. Con Edison blamed the feed- er breakdown on air-condition- ing demands, plus the cumula- tive damage incurred during one of the wettest springs and early summers on record. Con Edison said it met Mon- day's peak demand of 7.5 mil- lion kilowatts of electricity only by cutting down its voltage by three per cent. In addition, the company was buying more than a million kilowatts of power from outside sources. AMESRIA BEAWUFIL ' NIEMRYCEBSOI Because it's my country. 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