European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday november 21, 1973 red spread expanding russian Navy reported building a second aircraft Carrier by Drew Middleton new York times news services second soviet aircraft Carrier is being built at Nikolayev on the Black sea and . And British intelligence sources re port that the russians plan to construct another larger class of carriers As part of their expanding naval program. Naval sources in Washington and Lon Don Felt that the growth of a soviet Carrier Force represents a significant shift in the global balance of Power. The russians Are said to be moving from a Fleet built to frus trate american operations to one capable of projecting soviet Power across the oceans of the world. Adm. Elmo r. Zumwalt jr., chief of naval operations recently told the Senate armed services committee that its Mem Bers would see the Day when the soviet Union has a larger Carrier Fleet than the United states. The . Navy has 15 carriers now but is reducing the number to 12. The first soviet aircraft Carrier the Kiev is on commissioning trials in the Black sea. It has a displacement of approximately 45,000 tons and will carry 35 fixed Wing aircraft probably the new so Viet freehand vertical take off and land ing fighters and helicopters for anti submarine  second ship of the Kiev class now under construction is believed to be of about the same tonnage. In weight the so Viet ships Are closest to the american Essex class. But the Kiev carriers with greater Speed and an armament of surface to air and surface to surface missiles Are much More modern Type of vessel. Naval sources in Washington and in the capitals of other nato Powers Are deeply concerned Over the development of a so Viet Carrier  naval authorities Are especially worried because the development of this closed filling station in Frankfurt is one of Many in Germany. Up photo Austria studies Speed limits Vienna a a 100-Kilometer 62m.p.h. An hour Speed limit will be introduced in the very near future on All aus Trian roads including freeways to help save on gasoline austrian Trade minister Josef stari Bacher told journalists tues Day. With the exception of built up areas an special Road dangers there now Are no Speed limits in  of the 100-Kilometer Speed limit should Cut gasoline consumption by about 10 per cent and allow austrians to live through the gasoline shortage without ban of sunday driving. Officials feel that ruling motorists off the roads on sundays would badly affect the tourist Trade one of Austria s main Money earners. The Speed limit will probably go into effect Friday after stari Bacher has a last round of talks with Austria s two Auto Mobile associations which so far have been opposed to the introduction of Speed limits. Government officials earlier pro posed Speed limits to Cut Down on the Acci Dent rate. In order to save on heating fuel rooms in Federal buildings will Only be allowed Mohave temperatures of 68 degrees fahren Heit stari Bacher disclosed. Spanish financier Dies Barcelona Spain a note Spanish financier Juan March Servera has died at a clinic Here after a Long illness his family said. He was 60. Soviet sea Power is occurring As the .Navy is eliminating older ships and wait ing for new ones. The years Between no Wand 1980 Are critical for american Security according to one highly placed  modern soviet Navy sources Point out was built in the 1960s to deny absolute control of the seas by the United states and its nato allies. Soviet naval doctrine i those years did not aspire to control of the oceans in the sense that the United states has controlled them from 1945 until the present. Soviet naval doctrine is changing West Ern intelligence sources report As the composition of the Fleet changes. Originally the deployment of cruise Sand destroyers armed with surface to sur face guided missiles gave the russians the ability to Knock out the Carrier strike forces on which american surface strategy is based. At the same time the russians devel oped Antisubmarine carriers such As the moskva and Leningrad of the Black sea Fleet whose task was to keep american ballistic missile submarines out of water from which they could strike at soviet Industrial  this basically defense strategy the russians have progressed to what one expert called global  this has been sought by the construction not Only of the two Kiev carriers but also of three Kara class cruisers. The latest of these the Nikolayev has every available Type of missile gun radar and electronic warfare device a British expert said. Meanwhile the russian ballistic missile submarine Fleet has been reinforced by the deployment of the Delta class which carries the ssn8 nuclear missile with Arange of 4,000 nautical Miles and the construction of the papa class whose boats carry eight ssn7 cruise missiles. Iran reports scramble by West for its Oil from press dispatches Vienna Western nations hit by the Arab Oil ban had offered Iran of to fou times the present Price of crude Oil in a scramble for alternative supplies Jamshid Amouzegar Iran s minister of finance said  have received offers from various countries who Are prepared to pay up to400 per cent More for our Oil Amouzegar said at the close of a two Day semiannual meeting of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries open this is what i Call a chaotic Market Amouzegar told newsmen. He Saido Pec s 12 members which Between them Supply 85 per cent of world Oil imports had decided to set up a committee to stud methods to stabilize crude Oil prices. The committee he said composed of experts from open member states would meet in Vienna dec. 17. Open s members told Oil company representatives at a meeting in Vienna Satur Day that they want crude Oil prices linked to Supply and demand. The Oil companies said they wanted Oil prices predetermined. After the inconclusive meeting saturday Amouzegar told newsmen Iran did not in tend to increase its Oil output to fill the Energy Gap caused by Arab Oil  tuesday s meeting Sheik Ahmed z. Yamani saudi Arabia s minister of Oil told newsmen to disregard reports from Tokyo that saudi Arabia had Given Japan deadline by which to break relations with Israel. If i were you i would disregard these reports Yamani said. Japan is caught in a dilemma Over How to win exemption from Arab Oil cuts while safeguarding its exports to the United states japanese officials said tuesday. Open decided tuesday to delay definite action on setting Oil Export prices for Oil coming from the persian Gulf  said that the Price in the area would remain unchanged until dec.17, when the open experts will begin try ing to relate Market prices of Oil products to the Revenue Oil producing countries get. Other decisions announced tuesday were to promote Ecuador to full member ship and to admit Gabon As an associated member. To hold the next semiannual meeting in Quito Ecuador on june 10.conference sources also said that Bolivia would be invited As an observer at the Quito meeting. European nations move to insure Arab Oil supplies Paris up Western european nations agreed tuesday to step up efforts for peace in the Middle East to insure continuing Oil supplies from the Arab world. The Western european Union we called for a joint embargo with soviet . Participation on weapons to Israel and the Arab states and urged immediate development of a european nuclear Energy  measures were contained in a 43 Page report on Energy problems adopted by a 13-1 vote of the Union s general affairs committee at tuesday s session of the we Assembly. The we consists of Belgium France West Germany Britain Italy Luxem Bourg and the  dissenter was the Netherlands whose representative objected that the re port was too hostile to the Oil companies. A draft recommendation by the commit tee said maintenance of peace in the Middle East is of vital importance for Europe and deplored the fact that Europe was unable to voice its views during the october 1973  britons Trot out old wartime slogan for fuel crisis London up britons accustomed to pulling together As a nation to stave off a crisis trotted out an old wartime slogan tuesday modified it slightly and declared it fit for use in the present International Oil crisis. Is your weekend journey really Nec Essary the slogan asked motorists. Tuesday marked the first Day of a government order cutting the amount of fuel delivered by Oil companies to their distributors by 10 per cent although direct rationing of gasoline to motorists has no yet come and there is no official ban on weekend driving. It is for each and every person in what Ever Way to Cut Back on demand and they must do it now said Peter Walker the Secretary for Trade and Industry. He asked motorists to limit their Speed to 50 Miles per hour in order to conserve fuel and signed an order allowing Only four Gallons of gasoline to be kept at Home in storage  from the longer term problems of world Energy Supply we now face an immediate triple threat to our Energy needs Walker said. Industrial action in the Coal and electricity industries has already led to the proclamation of an emergency he said. The proclamation last week has already resulted in bans on the use of electric heat ing in Many Public places and has forced shopkeepers and businesses to switch of advertising and display lighting. Britain s automobile association has is sued a table of How much gasoline would be saved by reducing Speed from 70  50. It said that the fuel savings ranged from 16 Miles per gallon for smaller cars Down to eight Miles per gallon for larger ones Britain s motor accessory manufacturing firms said they had had a Rush on orders for Locking Gas tank Caps