The lvichigan Daily Vol. XC, No. 23-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, June 10, 1980 Ten Cents Sixteen Pages ANGRY MIAMI CROWD HURLS BOTTLES, ROCKS Carter's limo stoned From AP and UPI MIAMI - An angry crowd hurled bottles and rocks at President Carter's limousine last night as he left a meeting with community leaders in the riot- scarred Liberty City area of Miami. The president was not injured, and said later that he was unaware of the violence. However, one beer bottle struck the rear of his car and windows were broken in another vehicle as the presidential motorcade sped from the area. THE ONLY reported injury was to a photographer, who, struck by a bottle, was thrown against a car. The crowd dispersed after the president left. In Washington earlier, congressional black leaders warned Carter there is a "Mount St. Helens ready to explode in any urban community," and said he fails to understand the depth of feeling of jobless American blacks. They said they will talk to the president again in about two weeks to see if he has made enough changes in his policy to earn their support in the fall election. REP. CARDISS Collins (D-Ill.), who spoke for the caucus, repeatedly ac- cused Carter of "misunderstanding what we're trying to say" during a 90- minute meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. "We have come away with a feeling of real disappointment," Collins said. According to a secret service agent in Liberty City who was driving the car immediately in front of Carter's, "A bunch of people across the street star- ted throwing a lot of rocks and bottles at us. It all started coming our way." CARTER HAD gone to the ravaged area to address black leaders, local politicians, and business leaders. Discussing the violence of last month, Carter said, "I will meet you at least half way in carrying out our program for a better life here in Liberty City if you will meet me the other half way." Minutes later he walked outside to his limousine and waved to the crowd of about 400 persons waiting behind police barricades. Many had been booing loudly and responded to Carter's wave with even louder insults. Some began lobbing bottles and rocks. CARTER DUCKED into his car and it sped off, as planned, for Miami Inter- national Airport. There, asked if he knew of theincident, he said "no." Although Carter's car was not delayed at the scene of the violence, those behind him were as scores broke through the barricades and ran into the motorcade's path. Earlier, a presidential aide said Carter had gone to Florida in part to explain that he felt he could not, under law, declare Liberty City a major disaster area, which would have made it eligible for .federal aid and low- interest businessloans. THE AIDE, Jack Watson, said federal law limits such declarations to natural disasters and does not cover civil disturbances. The area bears the scars of three days of killing, burning, and looting that began May 17 after a Tampa jury acquitted four former policemen charged in the beating death of black insurance executive Arthur McDuffie. Sixteen people died in the violence. Carter, arriving at the Liberty City meeting, had been greeted by signs reading "Remember McDuffie" and "Tax the rich, rebuild black Miami." EARLIER IN THE day, in Miami Beach, Carter pledged that a balanced budget will not be achieved "by im- posing sacrifices on the poor," and said he is sorry those most hurt by the Miami rioting "are those who already have the least." See MIAMI, Page 2 A really big pledger The two-acre "Great American Flag," with only two of its fifty stars exposed, arrives at the Lincoln Memorial grounds yesterday. The seven-ton flag'was constructed in Evansville, Indiana and will be unrolled on Flag Day, June 14. Iran fixes Iraq's oil priee unity proposal From UPI and AP ALGIERS, Algeria-Iraq's compromise proposal that OPEC members unify oil prices at $32 per barrel yesterday was dismissed by Iran as "too low" and apparently rejected by Saudi Arabia as too high. As expected, price unification was the central topic as the oil ministers from the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries opened their 57th biannual strategy meeting in Algiers. IRAQ TOOK THE initiative by proposing a com- promise that it said was supported by the majority of OPEC members. But Iran and Saudi Arabia quickly killed the proposal, for opposite reasons. The Iraqi proposal would have unified oil prices, which currently range from between a low of $28 per barrel for Saudi crude to $38.21 per barrel charged by Algeria, by setting a fixed, across-the-board price of $32 per barrel. But Iranian Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar, one of the most radical "hawks" within OPEC, said a $32 marker for OPEC crude was "too low," and suggested $35 might be more acceptable to him. "WE WILL NOT COME down in price for the sake of price unity," said Moinfar. "We don't have a unified price for what we buy, so why should we have a unified price for what we sell." Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani told reporters he was "very pessimistic" the latest price-unifying effort would succeed. And Moin- far said he was "sure" there would be no agreement. Yamani had indicated earlier that Saudi Arabia was not prepared to.increase the cost of its crude by as much as $4 per barrel as it would have to do under the terms of the Iraqi proposal. See SAUDI, Page 6