Iran could resume oil exports
’ WASHINGTON (AP) The United
States has received informal word
that the new government in Iran will
increase oil production by enough to
permit a resumption of exports to
other nations this year, a top Energy
Department official said yesterday.
; Assistant Energy. Secretary Harry
E. Bergold Jr. cautioned, however,
that the word came from Iranian*
officials below the cabinet level in the
emerging goverment of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini.
. .Testifying before a House Com
merce subcommittee, Bergold said,
“There is some indication of intent to
resume production.”
In informal contacts within the
Iranian government, he said, U.S.
officials have been advised that “a
return to production will be possible
sometime in 1979.”
Two U.S.
WASHINGTON (UPI) Two
of a firm owned by computer
magnate H. Ross Perot were released in
Tehran'', Iran yesterday, a State
Department spokesman announced.
Officials had negotiated with the Iranian
government for seven weeks seeking the
release of the two Americans.
JThe.men had been held in lieu of $12.75
ransom, The Dallas Times
| Herald reported in a copyright story,
j The newspaper said the two computer
{engineers for Perot’s Electronic Data
I Systems Inc., William Gaylord and Paul
I Schiapperone, were imprisoned in Iran
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Bergold later declined to elaborate
on the likelihood of a resumption of
Iranian oil exports to the United
States. ,
During the crisis in Iran, the
decreased oil production was suf
ficient only to meet domestic needs.
Before the shutdown, Iran accounted
for 10 percent of the world’s oil and 5
percent of the supply imported by the
United States.
Bergold said that if the Iranians
permit skilled foreign workers to
return to the oil fields, production
could go back up to 3 million or 4
million barrels a day.
But leaders of the Iranian oil
workers currently are opposed to the
return of expatriate workers, whose
skills are believed indispensable to
any goal of resuming oil production at
the previous level.
executives released in Iran
the department had received in
formation the men had been released
and had checked into a downtown
Tehran hotel. No other information was
available, the spokesman said, because
communications with the U.S. Embassy
were sporadic due to a takeover of the
embassy.
It was not known whether a ransom
was paid for the release of the men.
Although the men had managed to
escape Gasre Prison, along with
thousands of other prisoners during the
last days of the revolution led by
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, they still
were not allowed to leave the country. It
was not known whether the Khomeini
In other testimony before the House
subcommittee, David J. Bardin, head'
of the Economic Regulatory Ad
ministration, proposed a standby
gasoline rationing system.
Other standby mandatory con
servation plans include closing
gasoline stations on weekends,
limiting the use of parking lots,
temperature controls in commercial
and public buildings and a prohibition
on some neon light signs.
Seymour Berry, director of the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
said the government has more than 4
billion gas rationing coupons in stock
with plans to print more if necessary.
He said it would take a year to put
serial numbers on the existing
coupons and that it will take about as
long to purchase the presses needed
to print new coupons.
government was aware of the status of
the men.
The State Department confirmed that
negotiations had been underway con
cerning the men, despite the chaos
rampant in Tehran. Official sources had
called the $12.75 million “bail,” while
members of the Dallas business com
munity preferred to call it “ransom.”
The newspaper said Perot, a
millionaire who funded missions to
Vietnam in 1969 and 1970 seeking the
release of American POWs, made a
secret trip to Iran to visit his employees
in prison. But he has refused to comment
on the episode, saying publicity could
endanger the two merf.
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Students debate future of Iran
By KATHY HOKE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The revolution in Iran is far from over
according to views expressed last night
by Iranian students at an open forum
sponsored by the Middle East Studies
Committee.
In a question and answer session, one
Iranian student said Ayatollah Khomeini
represented only one faction of the
revolution that led to the Shah’s exile
and the establishment of a new gover
nment headed by his appointee
Bazargan.
“It is my belief that Ayotollah
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Slain VFW vegetable grower buried
CALEXICO, Calif. (UPI) With a
young boy’s anguished cry, “My Papa!
My Papa!” a slain farmworker was laid
to rest in a wind-swept grave yesterday
following a procession of 5,000 weeping
and flag-waving members of the striking
United Farm Workers of America and
sympathizers.
The burial of Rufino Contrereas, 27, a
Mexican citizen, following a two-mile
funeral march through the streets of the
dusty border town of Calexico marked
the end of the bitterest chapter in the
union’s four-week strike against Im
perial Valley vegetable growers.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers
remained on alert to cope with any
renewed violence. UFW President Cesar
Chavez has vowed to violate a court
order and trespass into struck lettuce
fields today to talk to non-striking
workers.
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Another Iranian student said the
forces that caused the Shah to leave
were the working class and intellectuals,
and not the religious leaders.
“These are the people who will shape
the future of Iran,” he said. “We will
have a stable government only if we
have a government that protects the
rights of people.”
Khomeini served as a.symbol of the
struggle against the Shah, Mustafa
Hemmati (12th-mechanical
engineering) said. “If people don’t get
what they asked for, they will continue
their struggle.”
Causes of the revolution were mainly
economic, another Iranian student said.
Contrereas, who was shot to death
Saturday as he and ’other, strikers
trespassed on the farm of a struck
grower
Contrereas’ 23-year-old widow, Rosa,
who was burned in a recent fire, was
brought to the funeral in a wheelchair
and was accompanied by two young
children.
“My Papa! my Papa!” cried Julio
Cesar Contrereas, 5, who hugged his
mother, her legs quivering and head
shaking from side to side, as she started
to cry.
The emotional funeral took place at El
Hoyo translated from the Spanish as
“The Hole” where the farmworkers
normally board buses for the
agricultural fields of Imperial Valley
just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The slain man’s casket was draped
with a purple United Farm Workers
Union flag. A sea of other UFW flags
with white eagles on a black background
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Many of the large business interests
were controlled by foreign countries
including the United States, he said.
Most Iranians favor nationalization of
these businesses, he said.
One person attending the forum asked
whether Iran would become an Islamic
republic under Khomeini’s leadership
and if the country would revert to law
practiced in the seventh century.
An Iranian student responded by
saying the American media “distorted
the total revolutionary process.”
“No one in the world can move against
history,” he said. “You can’! go back.”
—by Kathy Hoke
were waved by mourners in the
background.
Chavez, who sat beside California
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., said in the
eulogy:
“When they spoke out against the
injustice they endured, the company
answered them with bullets. The
company sent hired guns to quiet Rufino
Contrereas. Wherever farm workers
organize, they stand up for their rights
and strike for justice. Rufino Contreras
is with them.”
The shooting occurred in the third
week of a strike by 4,200 UFW members
against 10 growers which has paralyzed
the harvest of 40 percent of the nation’s
winter lettuce crop and the planting ot
other crops.
Brown left following the funeral to
meet with a committee of growers, who
have called on the governor.to mobilize
the National Guard to prevent further
outbreaks of violence.
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