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Petroleum price very high
Brazil's economy
hit by Iran crisis
RIO DE JANEIRO- Brigadier
Delio de Jardim de Mattos
and Minister of Foreign Relations,
Ramiro Saraivo Guerreiro
have both broken the official
silence on the crisis of the United
States hostages in Iran.
Jardim de Mattos spoke of the
possibility of a major military
clash in the Middle East and
Saraivo Guerrero expressed the
government's uncontroversial
wish that "all will be resolved
peacefully". The reason for this
uneasiness is the fear that the
crisis could create further difficulties
for the already hardpressed
Brazilian economy.
The Minister of Industry and
Commerce, Camilo Penna, has
warned of the seriousness ofthe
situation. He claims that the
Investigation
into May 29
in Dominica
ROSSEAU - The first meeting
of a commission of enquiry
set up by the Dominica government
to look into last May's public
demonstrations which security
personnel broke up with
bullets und teargas, lasted just
under half an hour in Rosseau
on Monday morning.
The session dealt with procedural
matters. It is expected
that the commission will soon
begin taking evidence on the
May 29 disturbances, which
eventually led to the downfall of
the Patrick John government.
Monday's session was under
the chairmanship of the Cariblx:an
jurist Aubrey Fraser of
Jamaica. The other member of
the commission is Alfred Clarke
of Barbados. It is not yet clear
whether former Prime Minister,
Mr John, will attend any of the
meetings. After his overthrow,
lie had publicly declared that he
would be willing to testify before
any enquiry set up to look
into the May 29 incident.
rise in oil prices is the chief cause
ofBrazil's economic troubles.
Iran, Iraq and Saudi-Arabia
provide 7.8 per cent of the 1.2
million barrels of oil imported
every day by Brazil.
Brazil's economic plight can
be explained by other longstanding
problems but there is no
doubt that the increase in oil
prices after 1973 hit Brazil particularly
hard. After the Iranian
revolution had further accentuated
the problem, the Brazilian
authorities hesitated in applying
strict controls over consumption
in Brazil. Last week,
the price of petrol was increased
by 58 per cent making it the second
most expensive in the
world at 22.6 cruzeiros (70
cents) per litre. Denmark's is
the most expensive at 22.8 cruzeiros
equivalent per litre.
The authorities are full of pessimism.
However, an article
published in the United States
newspaper "New York Post"
might have provided some encouragement.
The New York
Post places Brazil among the
countries likely to benefit from
increased trade with Iran now
that Iran-US trade relations
have been destroyed by recent
events. According to the New
York Daily, Iran urgently needs
100,000 tonnes .of wheat,
100,000 tonnes of animal feeding
stuffs, 50,000 tonnes of
rice and 30,000 tonnes of edible
oils. The cost of all this isput at
some 250 million dollars.
This is a sizeable sum especially
if it is taken into consideration
that during the next
year world trade is expected to
grow by only one per cent
( 15,000 million dollars). In
these circumstances any new
market is very valuable.
With a view to ensuring Brazil's
oil supplies and investigating
the possibility of selling
Brazilian products and technology
in the Middle East Delfim
Neto, the governments economic
supremo, visited Saudi-
Arabia and Iraq towards the
end of last month. Neto had
been scheduled to visit Iran,
but the turbulence in that country
caused it to be dropped from
the itinerary. After a week of
talks, Neto seemed to have
achieved his main objective:
The
guarantee of oil supplies for the
next year. Iraq committed itself
to selling 400,000 barrels per
day (BPD) to Petrobras, the
Brazilian state company responsible
for the import, refining
and marketing of oil. Saudi-
Arabia also committed itself to
increased oil supplies thus
freeing Brazil from the need to
buy oil on the Rotterdam spot
market in the coming months.
The success of Neto's tour is
also linked to the offer of Brazalian
arms to its Middle East oil
suppliers. Brazil has become the
major Third World arms manufacturer.
As the president of the
export credit department (CA-
CEX), Benedito Moreira said,
"at times like this, we have to
use ourresources to the full".
Jamaica expects
cabinet shake-up
KINGSTON - A cabinet
shake up seems around the corner
in Jamaica. Word to this effect
has come from the generalsecretary
of the ruling Peoples
National Party — Dr D.K.Duncan.
Dr Duncan was quoted as
saying that a call for the shakeup
was made at a recently concluded
meeting of the PNP's
executive council.
TOKYO — Japanese prime
minister Masayoshi Ohira left
for Peking to discuss Japan's
cooperation in China's modernisation
programme. It was the
first visit to China by a Japanese
leader since the two countries
signed a peace and friendship
treaty last year.
Maniey: "Growth andinvestment"
Caribbean meeting on
trade and development
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English Companion
The world in a nutshell
BUFFALO, NEW YORK -
Roger Daltry, lead singer of the
Who rock group, said it was
continuing its US tour as a tribute
to 11 fans who died in a
stampede to get into a concert
by the group in Cincinnati,
Ohio.
SAN SALVADOR - Security
forces used tear gas to drive
out 1,500 strikers from a cotton
plantation seized to back demands
for a wage increase.
LOS ANGELES - Frank Sinatra,
"ol' blue eyes", will give
a concert to a specially-invited
audience in Las Vegas tonight
to celebrate his 40 years in show
business.
CHICAGO — A jilted suitor
walked into a college classroom
last night, shot dead the woman
who rejected him and then killed
himself in front of horrified
students. Police identified the
gunman as Ruben Mitchell, 38,
a Chicago police officer on medical
leave.
NEW YORK - Entertainer
Liza Minnelli married broadway
producer Mark Gero last night
in a private church ceremony
attended by family and a few
close friends. It was a third
marriage for miss Minnelli, the
33-year-old daughter of the late
Judy Garland and film director
Vincente Minnelli. Film star
Elizabeth Taylor Warner was
among the celebrities who attended
the wedding in St. Bartholomew's
episcopal church in
New York.
Mr. Gero, who had not been
married before, was miss Minelli's
production manager when
she starred in "the act" on
broadway three years ago. Her
previous husbands were Aus-
KINGSTON - Jamaica's
Prime Minister, Michael Manley,
has identified growth and
foreign investment as crucial
objectives in any rational
economic strategies for countries
ofthe Caribbean.
At the same time Mr Manley
has emphasized the importance
of the United States and the
Caribbean laying the basis for
understanding of private sector
business activities in an effort
to create favourable conditions
for investment.
Prime Minister Manley was
speaking on Thursday night at
the Caribbean conference on
trade and development in Miami,
Florida. The conference on
Caribbean trade and development
ended on Friday. The
three-day meeting brought together
politicians and businessmen
from throughout theregion
with American businessman,
and it was aimed at developing
US investor interests in the region.
During Thursday's session at
which Jamaica's Prime Minister
Michael Manley delivereda dinner
speech, over one hundred
anti-Castro demonstrators marched
in front of the Intercontinental
Hotel with slogans such
as: "Manley Castro puppet"
and "Manley go home".
KUWAIT - A meetingof the
Organisation of Arab Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OAPEC)
ended without apparently reaching
agreementon how high oil
prices should be raised next
year and what role, if any, the
US dollar should have in oil pricing.
tralian singer Peter Allen and
film producer Jack Haley jr.
Her marriage to mr Haley ended
in divorce lastyear.
FORTH WORTH, TEXAS-
Romania's women gymnasts led
China at the world gymnastics
championships after eight
countries had completed the
compulsory exercises section.
UNITED NATIONS - The
Security Council unanimously
adopted a resolution urgently
calling on the Iranian government
to release immidiately US
embassy staff held in Teheran
and assure their safe passage
out of the country. The 15-nation
council also urged the governments
of Iran and the
United States "to exercise the
utmost restraint in the prevailing
situation". Since no delegate
expected Iran to free the
hostages without persuasive
follow-up action, the resolution
armed mr Waldheim with a
broad mandate to "take all appropriate
measures" to implement
it. In Teheran, moslem
students holding the hostages
in the US embassy dismissed
the UN resolution as an American-dictated
exercise. Their
spokesman said: "the crisis will
not be solved unless the Shah is
returned to Iran."
WASHINGTON - President
Carter openly staked his reelection
campaign on his ability
to guide the United States safely
through'its crisis with Iran.
The priority he gave to Iran in
formally announcing yesterday
that he would seek a second
White House term took advantage
of the new-found popularity
he has won for his handling
of the situation. Mr. Carter,
who has abandoned all political
activities to monitor the crisis,
said: "I have but one task" - to
bring about the release of the
US hostages. US officials said
some of the hostages had been
threatened with execution if
they failed to cooperate with
their Iranian captors.
They said assertions by the embassy
occupiers that none of the
hostages had been directly
threatened were untrue. In Pa-
ris, the Western European
Union (WEU) parliamentary
assembly called for a world ban
on arms supplies to Iran. By
detaining the staff of the US
embassy as hostages, Iran
might endanger world peace, it
said.
JEDDAH —
Saudi Arabia
said about 60 soldiersand 75 rebel
gunmen were killed in 15
days of fierce fighting torecapture
the Grand Mosque in Mecca,
holiest shrine of Islam.
About 170 of the force which occupied
the Mosque were captured
and face the prospect of
going on trial for their lives.
Saudi television showed film of
survivors of the group, many of
them wounded. The attack leader,
Juhaiman Al-Oteiba, was
seen glaring at the camera from
a hospital bed, looking filthy
and bedraggled.
EAST BERLIN - The Soviet
Union today begins pulling out
troops and tanks from East
Germany in a symbolic ceremonial
farewell to which dozens of
western journalists have been
invited. Soviet President Leonid
Brezhnev announced last
October that up to 20,000 men
and 1,000 tanks would be withdrawn
unconditionally from
East Germany to prove that
Moscow was sincerely committed
to disarmament and detente.
WASHINGTON - Chrysler
union leaders said they would
rather let the company go bankrupt
than accept a three-year
wage freeze.
LONDON - A British government
spokesman said peace
might never be achieved in Zimbabwe
Rhodesia unless agreement
was reached this week on
how to implement a ceasefire
between Patriotic Front guerrillas
and the Salisbury government
ofBishop Abel Muzorewa.
The Patriotic Front's leaders
earlier rejected British attempts
to pressure them into a ceasefire
and accused South Africa of upsetting
the three-month-old
Zimbabwe Rhodesia peace conference.
Compared withLatin-America
More chances for women
in 'English' Caribbean
CARACAS - The
English language speaking
countries of the Caribbean
ocean have more women workers,
in percentage terms, than
the countries of Latin America.
This was reported by Peggy
Antrobus, delegate for the
West-Indie at the 'second
regional cc erence on the
participatio of women in
development' held recently in
Caracas.
The English speaking
countries of the Caribbean -
Montserrat, Dominica, Santa
Lucia, Saint Vincent, St Kitts,
Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago,
Barbados, Antigua, and
Jamaica -- and the French
islands of Martinique and
Guadelupe have their own plan
for the incorporation of women
intothe tasks of development.
The regional conference, held
under the auspices of the
Economic Commission for Latin
America (ECLA) discussed the
achievements of the first five
years of the' United Nations decade
of the women.
Antrobus explained that the
level of educational is also
greater than in the rest of the
region. "The girls of the islands
"she said" study more than the
boys, and 40 per cent of the
secondary school students are
female. More than30 per cent of
those studying agriculture at
the highest level are women".
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organisation of the community
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many women occupying leadership
positions in the parties or
unions".
At the conference, it was
recognised that the Caribbean
had made greater advances in
the "decade of the woman" than
other Latin American sub-
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regions. It was recalled that th«
first regional conference V>°
place in Cuba in 1977. Th c
larger countries, such as Jam8-1'
ca and Guyana have beenaab e
to incorporate women into the*'
development strategies, whi'
the smaller islands rely °
womens organisations to tak
initiatives themselves. Th
conference discussed a 3°^,
position for the Won 0
Conference of the woman Jll
1980 in Copenhagen.
PRAGUE - Frantisek Kriegel,
a leading supporter of Cz£'
choslovak reformist leader Alexander
Dubcek and one of
original signatories of the Chai"
ter 77 human rights manifest 0,
died in Prague aged71.
StVincentgoes
to the poll today
Short after
independence
KINGSTOWN - Less than
six weeks after the island obtained
independence, today elections
will be heldin St Vincent.
In the days proceeding the elections
the four political parties in
the island of St Vincent all
launched into an all-out plea,
thereby holding political meetings
and rallies. Most parties
were holding several meetings
at the' same time at different venues.
Political observers in the island
believe the election will be
a very close one. So much so,
that they are refraining from
making any predictions.
Today's elections is no doubt
generations a lot of regional
interest. Many are looking forward
to see if there would be a
repetition of the St. Lucia
event, when John Compton and
his United Workers Party were
WOENSDAG 5 DECEMBER 1979
voted out of office shortly aft^
taking the island to indepe 11
dence. But, it was however,
confident Prime Minister, M^
ton Cato, who announced tb*
there would be elections so soo
after St. Vincent became lJl'
dependentfrom Britain. ,
c
According to Mr Cato, »
could have gone on in office u
til next year, but the BoY8oVyt
ment's popularity — both
home and abroad, have been a
encouraging factor. As from t0
day the people of St Vince*
and the Grenadians will && ,
whether to elect the St. Vine/»"
Labour Party for another fiv
year term, or if they consider
change and elect whichever
the three political parties tbw
wish to govern the affairs oft*l
newest independent Caribbea
country. .
The other political part*e
contesting the forthcomi 0»
general elections are: tb
Peoples Political Party,
United Peoples Movement a»
the New Democratic Party.