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Arabs to defy Kissinger on oil
By United Press International
Saudi Arabia apparently has
decided to defy Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger’s
warning that the United States
would consider taking unspeci
fied “countermeasures” unless
the Arab states ended their oil
boycott.
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani said
Thursday he would reduce oil
production up to 80 per cent if
the United States, Europe and
Japan take any counter
measures.
Kuwait also issued a state
ment Thursday indicating the
boycott of oil shipments to pro-
Israel nations will continue.
In other energy developments
Thursday, Italy raised gasoline
prices to a record $1.32 a
gallon, banned Sunday driving
and took other fuel-conserving
measures, Canada assured the
United States it has no intention
of stopping shipments of oil,
and in Washington several
consumer and environmental
groups urged the government to
accelerate antitrust action
against major oil companies,
discourage the licensing of
nuclear power plants and
promote more underground,
rather than surface, mining.
Yamani Speaks
Yamani spoke in Copenhagen
in apparent response to Kissin
ger’s statement Wednesday
“that if pressures continue
unreasonably and indefinitely,
then the United States would
have to consider what counter
measures it would have to
take.”
The Saudi Arabian oil minis
ter, speaking on a Danish
television interview warned
Europe and Japan against
joining Americans in any
countermeasures “becauseyour
Good news
Courage
defeats
handicap
By FRANK MACOMBER
Copley News Service
Sometimes raw courage
works better than the sur
geon’s scalpel or the psychia
trist’s couch.
It did for Jim McFarland.
He limped out of Long Beach,
Calif., Veterans Hospital on
Sept. 29,1969, scarcely able to
walk under his own power,
carrying a letter from the
hospital certifying Jim as a
quadraplegic. That means he
had lost control of his arms
and legs.
Jim McFarland refused to
accept the medical jury’s ver
dict. Four years later he had
logged 347 miles hiking as dis
trict chairman of the Trails
and Awards Committee of the
Boy Scouts. That included 47
wilderness hikes, a tough as
signment even for men who
had suffered no paralyzing
spinal injury.
McFarland in April, 1969,
was demonstrating an experi
mental surfboard in the pool
at his Redondo Beach, Calif.,
home when he fell and struck
his head on the pool bottom.
While there was no identifi
able skull fracture, a verte
brae had slipped enough to
damage the spinal cord.
, Jim McFarland was para
lyzed from the head down. It
looked like the end of his ca
reer as chairman of the sci
ence and mathematics divi
sion at Azusa Pacific College.
For the retired Air Force ma
jor it could have been the end
of the line.
But it wasn’t to be that way.
McFarland stubbornly re
fused to become wheel chair
? borne, worked constantly un
til he was able once again to
move about. His determina
tion achieved what doctors
had failed to accomplish — at
least partial recovery.
Now McFarland is a mis
sionary in New Guinea, teach
' ing the children of other mis
sionaries at a high school in
Ukarumpa, Papua.
“The Lord told me, all of a
sudden, ‘You’re going into the
missionary field,”’ McFar
land recalls. He’ll return to
his teaching at Azusa Pacific
College after his missionary
tour.
What McFarland does is not
nearly so important as the
fact that he is able to do any
' thing at all after a mishap
which doctors predicted only
could end in tragedy.
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economy would collapse in a
short time.”
He said if the United States
tried to use military force to
occupy oil producing areas,
Saudi Arabia would blow up its
oil fields.
The Foreign Ministry of
Kuwait asked Thursday for
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“clarification” of Kissinger’s
statement, Kuwait radio repor
ted. In Paris, Kuwait Oil
Minister Abdel Rahman Salem
Atiki, said Europe will suffer
terribly if it does not help the
Arabs in their dispute with
Israel.
Atiki said the Arabs may
strangle the Western economy.
“Europe will suffer, suffer
terribly, I assure you ... if you
do not help us,” he said.
Some Oil to U.S.
However, despite the boycott,
oil sources said some Libyan oil
is finding its way to the United
States market byway of the
Caribbean, and Iraqi oil is
flowing through Mediterranean
terminals at Baniyas, Syria and
Tripoli, Lebanon and at Persian
Gulf outlets at a rate equal to
that before the Arab-Israli war
broke out Oct. 6.
In domestic developments:
—W. 0. Whitt of Birming-
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ham, Ala., a vice president of
the Alabama Power Co., said
Christmas lights used by
merchants as decoration during
the holiday season will not
contribute to the nation’s
energy crisis. He told mer
chants Thursday the holiday
lights could actually lead to a
— Griffin Daily News Friday, November 23,1973
decreased need for heating fuel
inside the stores because of the
heat they generate. He said the
lights use a small amount of
electricity.
—A coalition of consumer and
environmental groups said in
Washington industries should be
charged the same utility rates
as homeowners, who now pay
one third to one half more and
called government appeals for
homeowners to lower thermo
stats and make other sacrifices
“a pretext to avoid making
hard decisions regarding corpo
rate practices and structures.”
—Any U.S. effort to embargo
food shipments to Arab nations
in retaliation against their oil
embargo would be ineffective,
according to a congressional
report released Thursday.