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But Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani told reporters, "I will not raise my price." The plan sets the $32 price for Arabian Gulf and other medium-quality oil, but provides a $37 ceiling price for higher-quality, low-sulfur oil. Venice, Italy The nine Common Market nations issued a declaration Friday which said the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) should be associated with any future Mideast peace negotiations. While the statement called for self-determination for Palestinians, it also urged universal recognition of Israel's right to exist, and stopped short of offering diplomatic recognition to the PLO. That didn't satisfy Israel. Later that week in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Menahem Begin said the statement "calls upon us and all other nations involved in the peace process to involve the Arab SS called the Palestine Liberation Organization." Begin pointed to a recent PLO statement calling for the liquidation of "the Zionist entity," and compared the Common Market statement to the 1938 guarantees of safety given to Czechoslavakia in Munich after they gave up the Sudetenland to Hitler. In Washington, Secretary of State Ed Muskie said the PLO may be invited into future peace negotiations, but not until they recant what he called their "commitment" to the destruction of Israel. "The ball is in the PLO's court," Muskie said. President Carter promised beforehand to veto any European attempts to change basic U.N. policy on the question, but the declaration signaled no attempts to do so. Carter is expected to travel to Venice next week to confer further on the matter with Common Market leaders, including in-cluding Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Tokyo Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 70, , died Thursday, leaving his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the lurch only 11 days before a crucial parliamentary vote. Ohira was hospitalized in the early days of the campaign for fatigue and a heart condition, but he vowed to return. He was said to be improving as late as Wednesday, but hours later suffered a fatal heart attack. Ohira's party lost a confidence vote in the Parliament May 16, and, rather than resign, Ohira called for new elections. At stake are all 511 seats in the lower house of the Japanese Diet (Parliament) and half of the 252-seat upper house. Oddly enough, the Liberal Democrats are more hopeful about the elections, as they appeal to a sympathy vote, while Ohira's opponents are left suddenly without a target. Ohira will be remembered as an advocate of better relations with Red China. As Foreign Minister, Ohira switched diplomatic recognition from Nationalist China to Peking in 1972, leading to a trade boom between the two countries. Government officials said they expected no major changes in foreign policy under acting prime minister Masayoshi Ito. Milan, Itaho A widening crack in the plaster wall depicting "The Last Supper" poses the greatest threat ever to the revered masterpiece completed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1498. - - - Government art superintendents Costanza Fattori and Gilnerto Martelli said the crack, 6V2' long and almost an inch wide at one point, was discovejjpd by a sensing device. It isiocated near the figure of the Apostle John and has not affected affect-ed the actual painted surface. But the Italians said the 2-year restoration work planned, at a cost of $1.2 million, may force a halt for an indefinite in-definite time to public showings. NATIONAL Washington The Senate approved President Carter's program to register four million 19- and 20-year-old men for the draft, while voting overwhelmingly over-whelmingly against a proposal to register women. The 58-34 approval vote overcame the last serious hurdle for the program after a week-long week-long filibuster in the Senate was ended. The House must vote on the program later this week, but it differs with the Senate only in the amount of money appropriated for the measure. The resolution provides for registering, not drafting,' young men. The American Civil Liberties Union announced announ-ced it will sue the program on grounds of sexual discrimination. And The Committee Against the Registration and the Draft plans demonstrations at some of the 35,000 post offices where registration will be held. The registration is currently expected to take place in mid-July over a two-week period, accord ing to Selective Service Director Bernard Rot-sker. Rot-sker. (Beginning in January, 18-year-olds will be expected to register on their birthdays. ) Registration cards will be filled out and handed hand-ed in at the post office. The registrant should then receive a verification letter not a draft notice within 90 days. No men have been drafted since mid-1973, and President Ford stopped registration in 1975. Washington and Dearborn, Michigan Auto industry representatives hotly debated the federal government's contention that some 16 million Ford cars and trucks possess transmission trans-mission defects which allows the gear shift to lurch accidentally from park to reverse. Engineering studies done by two Ford competitorsGeneral com-petitorsGeneral Motors and Chrysler contend con-tend that a weak spring installed with a certain type of Ford transmission allows the undesired shift. The National Highway Safety Administration Ad-ministration (NHTSA) says the defect has been linked with 98 deaths, more than 6,000 accidents, and 1,710 injuries, many caused when the owner chased his runaway vehicle. Ford, on the other hand, responds that all transmissions trans-missions are essentially similar, and says sudden sud-den lurches into reverse are caused by a failure to place the lever firmly in park. Roger Maugh, Ford's director of automotive safety, challenged the NHTSA statistics, saying the agency asked the public for reports of accidents involving only Fords. The controversy involves every Ford. Mercury and Lincoln car and truck with automatic transmission trans-mission in the 1970-79 model year. Maugh said replacing the transmissions would not be feasible, but added that Ford would design any cost-effective modifications. "The only thing that comes close is a light or a buzzer that tells you what you have done," he said. Sherman Oaks, Calif. Doctors began a two-hour two-hour operation Tuesday morning on injured comedian Richard Pryor, intending to remove burnt skin to prepare the way for skin grafts . The volatile comic ran from his home screaming last week after sustaining third-degree third-degree burns from the waist up, causes not yet fully determined. Local police said Pryor told doctors he was injured when a chemical mixture he was using to "freebase" (purify) cocaine exploded ex-ploded in his face. Later, attorney David Franklin told the press Pryor was lighting a cigarette when the flame ignited a glass of rum. A police search failed to find any evidence of drugs or flammable liquids. Jenny Pryor, the comic's aunt, put out the fire with blankets. Pryor then ran from the house. t Paramedics found him wandering in a daze more than a mile away. Pryor's chances for survival were rated as one in three, but doctors have grown optimistic, reporting Pryor is fairly alert, able to eat hot cereal, and is kept busy with various skin treatments, treat-ments, from whirlpool baths to pressure chambers. cham-bers. He has been inundated with mail and flowers and visited by such celebrities as Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis Jr., and Redd Foxx, who earlier had cabled him, "I knew you were lookin for me, but I didn't expect you to send up smoke signals." Washington and Los Angeles U.S. courts handed down two controversial decisions on medicine, morality and the law. A California appeals ap-peals court upheld the right qf a child to sue for "wrongful life." And the U.S. Supreme Court said the creation of new forms of life can be patented. The father of 2-year-old Shauna Temar Curlender wants to sue two laboratories on her behalf for negligence in testing both parents for Tay-Sachs disease and erroneously reporting they were not carriers. The disease, which Shauna now has, is a genetic defect carried by some Jews and generally causes blindness and death by age 3 or 4. "She had a right never to be brought into existence," said the Curlender's attorney. A lawyer for the defense, however, predicted repercussions from the court's finding that fetuses have rights. "When the right-to-lifers get hold of this, they're going to be clamoring to change abortion laws." Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that test-tube life is covered by the federal law which allows patents for any "new of useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter." mat-ter." The decision was attacked by Jeremy Rifkind of the People's Business Commission, who said the decision give corporations "the green light to begin engineering the genetic pool." The decision concerned a lab bacterium developed at General Electric to eat crude oil more efficiently than natural bacterium. La Jolla, Calif. Milburn Stone, who dug bullets out of Matt Dillon's hide for 20 years as "Gunsmoke's" Doc Adams, died of heart failure at age 75. Stone, born 90 miles from the real Dodge, began the role of Doc in 1955 and won an Emmy in 1968. But he began appearing before movie audiences in 1934, in the first of 150 character roles among them, as Stephen Douglas opposite op-posite Henry Fonda's "Young Mr. Lincoln" in that 1939 film. |