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Fuming photographers AP^h
Press photographers, their arms folded and their cameras at their feet, glare silently as French cabinet members
leave the Elysee Palace yesterday. The photographers staged a no-photo session to protest incidents last week in
which they were clubbed by policemen while covering demonstrations.
State gives unique freedom to
col in plannin curriculum
(Connuedirom Page3) sity is able to claim a reduction," he their colleges in the future, Melchiori
said. explained.
much interest in continuing its own When a discontinuation decision is
program to make an objective decision, "P.R. reductions give a college the made by a state agency the University
he added. image of being budget-minded and in can "pass the buck" and tell disgrun-
The study found that in the past about step with the times," Melchiori said, tied students and faculty that they were
half the program discontinuations at She said that these false cutbacks have forced to cut the program, Melchiori
universities were cutbacks on paper been used by departments to squeeze said.
only. Miller called these reductions new programs from the colleges. Many Universities need to be prepared in
"P.R. reductions." departments try to show the ad- the event that program discontinuation
ministration that since they have rid becomes necessary, Melchiori noted.
SOME REDUCTIONS will mean themselves of dead wood they are "Universities often begin the reduction
fewer faculty involved, but in other deserving of new programs, she said. process without identifying the issues
cases, the number of teachers and they need to face, such as legal hassles
students participating will remain the Dim economic predictions and expec- or student/faculty opposition,"
same, but because they have tations of declining enrollment have Melchiori said. "They ought to define
rearranged' things (department titles, prompted state agencies to expect these problems first and develop_ mech-
course requirements, etc.) the univer- more "meaty" discontinuations from anisms to overcome them."
Western
govt's ire
raised by
OPEC oil
price hike
From AP and UPI
Western governments yesterday
assailed a decision by the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
allowing crude oil prices to rise as
much as $4 a barrel.
"Any price rise at this time is com-
pletely unjustified in view of market
conditions," U.S. Energy Secretary
Charles Duncan said in Washington af-
ter OPEC oil ministers ended a three-
day meeting in Algeria.
NEW OIL price hikes, on top of a
more than 10per cent increase since the
beginning of 1979, will be "a further
considerable burden for the world
economy," said Guido Brunner, the
European Common Market energy
commissioner.
Any increases will worsen "the ten-
dencies toward recession and in-
flation," Brunner said in Brussels,
Belgium.
In Tokyo, Bank of Japan Governor
Haruo Mayekawa said the OPEC
decision would raise Japanese prices
and increase the country's oil-fueled
trade deficit, which reached $1.9 billion
in April.
THERE WAS no immediate reaction
from President Carter, but Duncan
called price hikes already announced
by some OPEC members "irrespon-
sible."
In Algiers, meanwhile, Saudi
Arabia's oil minister yesterday predic-
ted a growing worldwide oil glut would
sendeprices tumbling this autumn from
OPEC's new $32-per-barrel base price.
He indicated the Saudis, OPEC's
largest producer, will continue selling
their oil below the cartel's minimum
and maintain stepped-up production in
an apparent effort to keep downward
pressure on prices.
"DON'T BE surprised if we don't
raise our prices," Sheikh Ahmed Zaki
Yamani said after the close of the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries' hectic two days of price
talks.
Yamani was commenting on an
agreement by the cartel's oil ministers
to narrow a price gap and try to
stabilize the market-by establishing a
$32-per-barrel floor price and a $37-per-
barrel ceiling.
Despite the agreement by OPEC's
majority, Saudi Arabia will refuse for
now to lift its own rates from $28 to $32
per barrel, Yamani said.
"We will watch the market," said the
Saudi minister, whose nation is the
largest of the 13 OPEC producers and
the main foreign supplier of oil to the
United States.
"If we see the oil companies are
making too much profits and the con-
sumers are not benefitting from the
cheap Saudi price, we will raise it a lit-
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