Page Four Srit: MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, May 14, 1977 PaeIou rt iHGA ALYStrdy!ay14 ..977 Vance sees arms .control compromises TEHRAN, Iran . - Secre- tary of State Cyrus Vance said yesterday that the United States and the Soviet Union might negotiate a "synthesis of their rival proposals at new strategic arms control talks next week in Geneva. "Whether in fact this will occur I can't predict at this time," Vance told a news con- ference. "I THINK IT is pissible that (ut of the discussion one might- ind a bridge of differences be- ,r23l south state Sat &Sun at 1 35-7-9 T H E FARMER tween them the U.S. and Soc- Jet proposals and a form of syn- thesis." Vance, who was rebuffed by Soviet leaders in March when he presented President Carter's arms control proposals is scheduled to resume high - level strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) next Wednesday n' Geneva with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Ills statements were a clear signal to the Soviets that the United States is ready to com- promise on SALT. Soon after Vance's unsuccessful Moscow mission, President Carter had indicated that compromise was possible. THE U. S. secretary, ending a week-long trip to Europe nd Iran, met yesterday with Shah M6hammad Reza Pahlavi and other Iranian officials. \,ance said afterward he and the shah differed on a few spe- cifics but generally were in agreement on issues ranging from arms sales, to energy, to -.uman rights. Ie said the shah accepted an invitation to visit Carter in Washington sometime later this year. Today, Vance is scheduled to attend a meeting of the Central Treaty Organization - made up of Iran, Pakistan, Britain and Turkey - and to talk pri- ;ately with ministers from member nations. The United States holds observer status in the organization. IN MARCH, Vance presented two alternative proposals to So- viet leaders for replacing the 1974 Vladivostok strategic arms imitation agreement, which ex- pires Oct. 3. One proposal wouW have ra- tified and continued the Vlad- s'ostok ceilings on ballistic missiles, strategic bombers and multiple warheads. The other would have lowered those ceil- ings. The two superpowers disagree over whether and how two new- ly developed weapons, the U.S. cruise missile and the Soviet Backfire bomber, would be con- trolled under a new agreement. "I HOPE WE'RE going to find some-way to see if we can move toward some common ground," said a senior U. S. of- ficial traveling with Vance. "But I don't know if it's going to be possible to do or not, quite frankly. We have to see what they have to say. "It may be possible to cm- hine the various proposals so that you have elements of Vladivostok and yet at the same Vime reach agreement as to what Will be involved in follow- on negotiations, which would take you very much into our comprehensive second propos- al," said the official, who asked not to be identified. He also said he doubted that what he called the "blending" process could be accomplish- ed within just a few days. OEC nixes five per cen t price hike NICOSTA, Cyprus (P) - The majority of members of the Or- ganization -of Petroleum Export- ing Countries (OPEC) have abandoned a five per cent oil price increase scheduled to go into effect July 1, the Middle East Economic Survey (ME- ES) said yesterday. The news weekly quoted OP- EC sources as saying the de- cision will be formally an- nounced May 20. ELEVEN OPEC members decided at Doha, Qatar, last December to raise their prices ien per cent Jan. 1 and a fur- ther five per cent July 1. Decision to forego the sec- ond stage would mean the mar- ket price for their crude will remain at $12.70 per barrel in- stead of rising to $13.30 per bar- rel. Each dollar increase in the crude oil price is estimated to boost gasoline prices by about 2 and a half cents per gallon. AT QATAR, Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter, and the United Arab Emirates refused to go along with the OPEC majority in December and opted for a five per cent increase for the whole year. The 11 high-price advocates apparently abandoned their sec- ond increase in the face of mounting Saudi oil. production to meet demand for its cheaper crude and expected seasonal softening of the oil market. Three members of the 11, Venezuela, Kuwait and Qatar, first resolved not to go along with the second increase, ME- RS said. Yesterday's report came as the Abqaiq oil field in Saudi Arabia, sotrce of about ten per cent of Saudi production, was shut down because of a fire. 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