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accepts aid
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From AP and UPI
BELFAST-IRA hunger striker
Brendan McLaughlin accepted medical
treatment for a bleeding ulcer yester-
day but did not end his 13-day fast.
The announcement by Sinn Fein, the
outlawed Irish Republican Army's
legal political front, was the first word
that any of the eight Irish nationalist
prisoners involved in the hunger strike
at Maze prison had accepted medical
treatment.
A SPOKESMAN for the Northern
Ireland Office, which administers the
province, said McLaughlin's acceptan-
ce of treatment was "very limited in
extent." Neither the office nor Sinn
Fein would say what the treatment
would be.
Four guerrillas have died since Bob-
by Sands began the fasts March 1 in an
attempt to pressure the British gover-
nment into granting political status to
Irish nationalist prisoners.
The hunger strikes have sparked a
wave of violent street battles across
Northern Ireland and provided a
rallying point for the mainly Roman
Catholic IRA's bloody campaign to end
British rule and unite the mostly
Protestant province with the
predominantly Catholic Irish republic.
Meanwhile, a booby-trapped box of
gasoline bombs exploded in the face of
a policeman yesterday, seriously in-
juring him.
Three Londonderry policemen were
on a predawn patrol in a jeep when they
saw a box ina supermarket parking lot,
police said. As one officer checked the
box and discovered it was filled with
gasoline bombs, it exploded.
The policeman underwent emergen-
cy surgery and a hospital spokesman
said he would live. The other two
policemen were released after treat-
ment of superficial burns.
SaudiArabia refuses
OPEC oil price hike
Today
A bar with brains
B OSTON'S NEWEST singles club isn't open to just anybody - a mini-
mum of a master's degree is required for membership. Called Singles
With Advanced Degrees in Professional, Academic, or Research Careers,
(or SPARC for short), its members include university professors, doctors,
lawyers, and scientists. "Socializing is as important as meaningful conver-
sation and our social meetings have prompted a lot of dates," said SPARC
founder Marnie, a neurolinguistics Ph.D. affiliated with a Boston hospital.
"But as superachievers, they might want to defera date for work." In an in-
terview with The Boston Globe, Marnie and other members asked for
anonymity because, as she put it, "Many of them are well-known doctors
and educators and they'd be awfully embarrassed if their patients and
students read about them." Marnie said she launched the group several
months ago because she became "depressed with the lack of conversation at
the typical singles place. The noises and smoking were awful, too." Marnie
said the group has about 250 members, including "the ex-wife of a Nobel
Prize winner who ran off with his secretary," with ages ranging from the 20s
to the 50s. Most members are divorced, she said, with an estimated average
income of $40,000. Marnie said that very few applicants have tried to win
membership with phony degrees. Although she does not check credentials
claimed by applicants, she said members would determine after a few con-
versations if someone were faking. Q
Today's weather
Rain ending in early morning, becoming partly cloudy by afternoon.
Today's high is expected to be around 75. Q
Happenings ...
FILMS
AAFC - The Big Heat, 7 p.m., Public Enemy, 8:45 p.m., Angell Aud., A.
C2 - Love Me or Leave Me, 7:30 p.m.; Marked Woman, 9:35 p.m., MLB 3.
CFT - Going Places, 4,7 & 9 p.m., Michigan Theater.
MISCELLANEOUS
Chemistry - lecture, "Soie Recent Advances in the Chemistry of N-
Nitropyrazoles," Prof. Clarisse Habraken, 4 p.m., 130o Chem.
SYDA - Siddha Meditation Course, 4 wks., 7:30 p.m., 1520 Hill, register at
994-5625.
Ark - Hoot Night, 9p.m., 1421 Hill.
Folk Dance Club - Adv. teaching, 8 p.m.; Union.
Sterling Chamber Players - Concert, Women composers, 8 p.m., League
Mussey Rm.
Karma Thegsum Choling - Meditation, 7 p.m., 734 Fountain.
Commission for Women - Mtg., noon, 2549 LSA.
Odessey Four - weekly workshops in Psychosynthesis and jungian con-
cepts about "The Self," Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., First Unitarian Univer-
salist Church, 1917 Washtenaw.
Spartacus Youth League - class, "The Russian Revolution," 7 p.m.,
Union Welker Rm.
The Michigan Daily
Vol. XCI, No. 15-S
Wednesday, May 23, 1981
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From AP and UPI
GENEVA, Switzerland - Saudi
Arabia struck a firm blow against
higher oil prices yesterday by refusing
to hike its price and forcing the OPEC
cartel to accept a freeze for at least six
months.
An official communique said all
members of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed
to freeze their current crude oil priceds
at "a ceiling of $36 per barrel with a
maximum OPEC price of $41 per barrel
until the end of the year."
"THE MAJORITY of the member
countries decided to cut production by a
minimum of 10 percent, effective June
1,1981," the communique said.
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In New York, financial analysts
predicted OPEC's action would mean
gasoline prices in the United States are
likely to remain stable or even decline
as excess oil production continues to
flood the market. They saw the price
freeze as meaningless without a Saudi
cutback and said there would be heavy
pressure on other OPEC members to
drop prices.
"You basically will see flat prices,
but there may be some declines," said
Constantine Fliakos, an analyst with
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith Inc.
The key aspect of the OPEC meeting
was seen as the failure to get the Saudis
to cut production despite pleas from
OPEC members that are unable to sell
all the oil they produce at current
prices.
THE SAUDIS have reduced output
somewhat, after peaking at a high of
10.3 million barrels a day late last year,
to about 9.85 million a day in March,
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly repor-
ted yesterday. But that drop was more
than made up by increased production
in Iran and Iraq, whose war seems to be
winding down.
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