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WORLD I
Major recession possible
WASHINGTON ? High-ranking Carter Administration
officials say that if oil-exporting nations decide on
another big increase in prices, they could push the U.S.
economy into a major recession.
"Another big oil price rise would be extremely difficult
for us and the Western world generally to
swallow," an official, who asked not to be named, said.
He said it would make an already difficult economic
situation much worse.
Officials agree that some increase is likely, but they
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the price outlook.
Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries already have increased prices 60-70
percent this year, and they will meet in Caracas Dec.
17 to decide whether to raise them further in 1980.
One U.S. official said there is reason to believe OPEC
may increase the price by a dollar or two over the [
current OPEC ceiling price of $23.50 a barrel, a hike
that would not be disastrous.
A few OPEC nations, Nigeria, Libya and Algeria,
already have broken the ceiling, with Nigeria's oil
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forecast a per-barrel increase of $2 to $4 at Caracas.
Soviet spy in hiding
LONDON ? Sir Anthony Blunt, 72-year-old former i
member of British intelligence and one-time art adviser
to Queen Elizabeth II, was in hiding Friday after
being identified by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
as the fourth man in a Soviet spy ring headed by Kim
Phi ley.
Blunt was somewhere in the Mediterranean area.
some newspapers reported. A porter at his apartment
building said Blunt had "gone for a holiday in Italy,"
but other newspapers speculated he might turn up in
the Soviet Union to join the other three members of the
ring who defected there.
Legislators and the press called for the facts of the
case to be made public. House of Commons Speaker
George Thomas pledged "very serious consideration"
to a demand by opposition labor representative Willie
Hamilton for a special debate on the "amazing story."
Thatcher told the House of Commons Thursday that
Blunt acknowledged in 1964 he helped make
arrangements for the defections to Moscow of spies
Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, that he recruited
spies for the Soviets and passed unidsclosed secrets to
them when he worked for British intelligence during
World War II.
Buckingham Palace announced it was canceling the
knighthood conferred on the distinguished are
historian 23 years ago, but it refused to say if the queen
told of Blunt's confession and why he remained her art
adviser.
Oil slick controlled
ISTANBUL, TURKEY ? Firemen and anti-pollution
experts battled a seven-mile-long oil slick to keep it
from spreading or catching fire along the Turkish
coast near the entrance of the Bosporus Strait Friday
following the explosion of a Romanian tanker.
Authorities called on residents in the old section of
the city "to be on alert" in case the floating slick of 30
million gallons of oil caueht firp Flamps still H
aboard the tanker and there were fears that pockets of j
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Kennedy favored in survey
WASHINGTON ? Edward M. Kennedy enjoys a 2-1
advantage over Jimmy Carter among AFL-CIO
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Democratic presidential candidate, a survey shows.
However, an Associated Press check of 513 local,
regional and national union leaders - more than half
the delegates to the AFL-CIO convention in
Washington - also indicates that many labor leaders
haven't yet made up their minds.
The survey showed 187 favor Kennedy and 92 want
Carter re-elected, while 195 are undecided between the
two Democrats.
Another 14 Delegates said they lean toward the
Massachusetts senator, while 12 said they were leaning
toward the president.
The random survey was conducted Friday on the
floor of the AFL-CIO convention. In brief interviews,
the delegates were asked to state who they would most
like to see elected president in 1980.
Carter and Kennedy are courting labor support for
their campaigns. Unions, with their substantial
financial, organizational and manpower resources,
can be mighty forces in political contests.
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most union leaders who say the rank-and-file favor
Kennedy because of his name and his long pro-labor
record in the Senate.
More tourists needed
KNOXVILLE.TENN. ? The federal government
should try harder to lure foreign tourists to the United
States, a travel industry spokesman said Saturday.
Bob Elmore, a spokesman for the Chattanooga
Convention and Tourism Bureau, said of the $121
billion spent by tourists in America last year, only $7
billion came from foreign travelers.
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dollar, travel to this country is one of the best travel
buys in the world. Millions of foreigner?, who have
wanted to visit the United States for years can now
afford to do so," he said.
He said the federal government isn't doing enough to
capitalize one the situation.
"Nearly every foreign country has a minister of
tourism, a cabinet-level minister But the United States
plays musical chairs or politics with an assistant
secretary 01 commerce wnn aimosi no sian or ouagei
and little influence over a myriad of tourist-related
agencies," Elmore said.
Elmore was one of 10 witnesses who appeared
Saturday at a four-hour hearing 011 the gas shortage
and tourism. The hearing was conducted by Sen. Jim ^
Sasser, D-Tenn., chairman of a Senate subcommittee
on intergovernmental relations.
Gonorrhea 'levels off'
ATLANTA ? Gonorrhea in the United States has
leveled off since 1975 after a 10-year increase which
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the National Center for Disease Control reported
Friday.
In the 1965-1975 period, the number of cases more
than tripled - from 324,925 to 999,937, the CDC's
venereal disease control division reported in its
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The projected number of cases for 1979 is 1.01
million, an increase of 1 percent since 1975, the CDC
said. This is compared with 1.19 million cases in 1976,
1.17 million in 1977 and 1.13 million in 1978.
By mid 1973, all state and local health departments
had established federally assisted gonorrhea
prevention Droerams and the CDC sniH thic nn.
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Riley may get subpeona
COLUMBIA ? Intervenors in the South Carolina
Electric & Gas Co. rate hike case Friday,asked the
Public Service Commission to subpeona Gov. Dick
Riley to testify on the cost and availability of nuclear
waste storage sites.
Robert Guild of the Welfare Rights Organization said
if the commissioners refuse to subpeona Rilev. in
tervenors will take action either in circuit court under
state laws or in federal court under the Public Utilities
Regulation.
Guild, Sen Tom Turnipseed, D-Lexington, and other
intervenors, who are opposed to the utility's request for
a $45.6 rate increase, asked the commission to subpeona
Riley.
A spokesman for Riley said Friday the governor will
decide "if and when" he is subpeonaed whether he will
resist or comply with the order.
The intervenors want Riley to testify on nuclear
waste storage problems that could affect operations at
SCE&G's nearby complete Virgil C. Summer Nuclear
Plant in Jenkinsville.
Tec may ban Iranians
GREENVILLE ? Iranian students at Greenville Tec
will not be permitted to enroll for classes next quarter
if American hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Iran are
not released, the school's board decided Friday.
Some 104 Iranians are currently enrolled at the twoyear
college, most of whom are in the United States on
visas requiring they be full-time students.
The board action came on a 6-0 vote with two absentions
after Robert Crawford, a school official, made
a motion that no Iranians be accepted for the quarter
that begins Nov. 28.
"I recognize this as a punitive action" he said,
calling the situation in Iran "an insult to our country.
The time has come for us to stop turning the other
cheek."
Tom Barton, president of the college, said he expects
the school to face legal action on the ban but said he did
not know who would represent the Iranian students.
Hazel Hall, vice president for student affairs, said
the Iranian students were not informed of the decision
Friday because most had already left campus for the
day.
Waste disposal problem
FORT LAWN ? The deadline for removing several
thousand drums of potentially hazardous wastes from
a Fort Lawn site is up, but about 500 of the barrels are
still there, officials said.
State health officials last July gave South Carolina
Recycling and Disposal Inc. four months to clean uo
the site. The four months were up this week. Some of
the remaining drums contain oily chemicals and paint
thinner.
"We've been working like mad all summer," Jim,
McClure, the company's president, said Thursday.
Officials of the State Department of Health and Environmental
Control said the company probably won't
be fined because of its cleanup effort and because it has
filed a request for more time to get the job done.
"The ultimate goal is to get the place cleaned up, not
to cause a hardship on the industry." according to
Gary Hogue, DHEC solid waste consultant for Chester,
Lancaster and York counties.
The company could be fined a maximum of $10,000 a
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Truesdale, director of DHEC's solid waste division,
said.
McClure said his company still needs permission to
dispose of some of the remaining waste in a Chester
County landfill. Once that county gives its permission,
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