The Michigan Daily-Friday, August 8, 1980-Page 11
Arab oil states
threaten Israeli
sympathizers
From AP and UPI
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Led by several
-major oil producers including Saudi
Arabia, ten Arab states are threatening
economic and diplomatic reprisals
against nations recognizing Israel's,
claim to sovereignty over all
Jerusalem.
The threat, which gained momentum
yesterday as eight more states joined
Saudi Arabia and Iraq, was a reminder
that the Arabs have not forgotten how
to use oil as a weapon - or where to
point it. Three of the nations are leading
suppliers of oil to the United States.
SO DEEP was their anger that the
two formal rivals for Arab world
leadership, Saudi Arabia and Iraq,
spearheaded the campaign with a joint
communique Wednesday announcing
they will sever off diplomatic and
economic relations with any country
recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's
capital.
Saddam Hussein, Iraq's 43-year-old
president, got on the telephone and by
midday yesterday, eight other Arab
countries - Kuwait,-Bahrain, the
United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan,
North Yemen, Algeria, and Mauritania
- had joined the movement.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, supplier of
nearly 20 per cent of U.S. oil imports,
was reported yesterday to be con-
sidering raising its $28-a-barrel crude
oil price to at least $30 as early as mid-
August despite the current world over-
supply of petroleum.
The trade newspaper Platt's Oilgram
News, quoting an unidentified "reliable
industry source," said four members of
the Persian Gulf country's Supreme
Petroleum Council have been pressing
for a two dollar-a-barrel increase this
month and another two dollar hike in
November.
AN ANTI-IRANIAN protester is hoisted above a Washington, D.C. crowd of
fellow demonstrators yesterday as he holds an effigy of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini. The crowd jeered pro-Khomeini demonstrators en route to
Lafayette Square, across from the White House.
Executions of anti-Khomeini
Iranians continue in Tehran
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The executions of 13 officers and the soldiers condemned them-for rising
enlisted men brought to 50 the number against the government and "having
of people given the death penalty for had such powerful supporters as
their part in the coup plan, which America and Israel."
Iranian officials said they crushed last The radio also reported that Israel's
month before it could be implemented. former mission in Tehran would be
Six other people were put to death opened today as the Embassy of
yesterday for other crimes, including Palestine, representing the people
drug smuggling. whose future autonomy in the Israeli-
Iranian officials have accused the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip is
United States and Israel of complicity the flashpoint in Israel's -relationship
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