European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july group urges Oil Price collusion probe Washington a a consumer group is asking the Justice department to investigate whether Oil companies acted to Gether illegally last summer to prevent a collapse in Oil the Citize labor Energy coalition wants the department to examine the prices that major refiners posted last August for West Texas crude it also wants the department to investigate simultaneous decisions by several Oil companies to Cut Pur chases from saudi the chief Price enforcer of the organization of Petroleum exporting we believe that actions taken by the Oil companies in the United states during 1984 resulted in prices in excess of competitive Edwin the coalitions assistant said in a letter to Charles the Justice departments acting anti Trust Rothschild contends the crude Oil Market last year was manipulated in the boardrooms of major Oil Justice department spokesman Mark Sheehan acknowledged rothschilds but he said officials would have no com ment on the coalition of consumer groups and labor unions frequently critical of the Oil Industry had asked the departments anti Trust division last september for an invest but none was Ever Rothschild rothschilds group renewed its request after reviewing the conclusions of an investigation by the new York mercantile sex which said that trading in Oil futures contracts last August had no substantial effect on crude the coalition had alleged that the major Oil companies May have instigated heavy trading in futures contracts As part of its efforts to reverse a gradual decline and pre vent a collapse in crude Oil prices last sum at the economists were predicting that Oil prices could soon fall to As Low As a the Oil ministers of the 13 nations that make up open Cut its official Price from to a barrel and accepted production cuts to prevent the Price from dropping Rothschild said the mercantile exchanges investigation bolstered his groups Contention of collusion among the Oil com the investigation concluded that crude prices levelled off last August primarily be cause of a decrease in production and efforts to stabilize it stopped Short of attributing those efforts to do blamed in death of South african South Africa a a medical panel Friday found two White government doctors guilty of misconduct in the 1977 death of outspoken Black Leader Steve the panel ruled that the two physicians failed to provide adequate care shortly be fore Biko died in police one doctor was reprimanded and the other was barred from practising Medicine for three but that penalty was an inquiry at the time of Bikos death found that he probably died of brain injuries received in a scuffle with his family claimed died of head injuries inflicted when police beat him Dur ing who arrested Biko under the nations Broad antiterrorism Security said he accidentally hit his head on a Wall while officers were subduing him after he became violent during the South african medical and dental Council ruled in Pretoria that District sur Geon Benjamin Tucker was guilty of disgraceful professional the composed of five said Tucker wrote a statement the Dav before Biko died that he could find no change in Bikos Central nervous although Tucker had not examined it also said doctors failed to notice a wound on Bikos forehead and issued a false or misleading certificate declaring he could find nothing wrong with Tucker and a colleague were in charge of Bikos medical treatment for five Days be fore he died on a former medical Rose to prominence espousing the philosophy that Blacks cannot depend on Whites to help overturn White minority the decision came As hundreds of people demonstrated in Johannesburg in a new Case of racial unrest the recent slayings election results blow to Thatcher Lyndon up Britain third ranking Alliance party won a parliamentary election in Central Wales from the conservatives dealing a midterm blow to prime minister Margaret thatch ers the Alliance party won the contest in the Rural Brecon and Radnor constituency by a majority of 559 pushing the conservative candidate into third be Hind at the last general the conservatives held the seat with a majority of More than it was one of their safest parliamentary seats in i believe it is the end of the prime ministers the end of said Richard the victorious Alli Ance he blamed conservative cuts in Public services As the main reason for the governments but the government played Down the significance of the Midway through thatchers second it was utter fantasy to try to predict the result of the general election on this contest in the scattered Hill country of the Welsh said conservative politician Barney a local Man who is a Farmer and a College becomes the 25th Alli Ance politician in the present House of the result showed the Alliance the grouping of the tiny Liberal party and the new social democratic captured 36 percent of the labor got 34 percent and the conservatives 28 that represented a 21 percent drop in conservative Livesey polled Richard Willey polled for and Chris the polled the Welsh nationalist party and three fringe candidates each polled fewer than 500 the result was a blow to the Pride of the opinion most of whom had predicted a comfortable labor an eve of poll Survey showed labor leading by 18 who once worked for Thatcher As an aide at her 10 Downing Street of did not get the Benefit of a personal Campaign stump from the prime but leading including defense Secretary Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Leon Brittan visited the the by election was caused by the death of Tom the conservative politician who won the seat at the last general elec death toll from cocaine abuse rises Chicago a americans Are find ing More intensive and destructive ways to take which claimed More than three times As Many lives in 1984 As it did in says an official with the National Institute on drug there has been a striking increase in medical emergencies and deaths associated with the use of wrote William Pollin in fridays journal of the american medical pollins editorial accompanied a report saying Laboratory animals Given free Access to cocaine died at almost triple the rate of those Given Access to such a result has obvious implications for human drug the study authors who recently stepped Down As the institutes said in a Telephone interview thursday that deaths associated with cocaine numbered 169 in but the toll was 598 last More intensive and destructive patterns of use Are clearly he such patterns include preparing the drug with a technique called freebasing to allow it to be injecting the drug into the bloodstream and using cocaine in Combina Tion with other he Michael Bozarth and Roy Wise of Concordia University in Montreal con ducted the they implanted tubes in the necks of 23 rats so that each animal could press a lever in its Cage to self administer a set dose of drug into its the rats were divided into two one for each after 30 11 of the 12 cocaine using rats were a mortality rate of More than 90 compared with Only four of Ford planning to build ant pollution London Ford motor com Pany has announced a million project to build a new ant pollution car Ford said production will begin in 1987 at its Plant at Dagenham in Essex with up to units a most for Export to the production methods to be employed at Dagenham will be the most advanced for any engine in the British motor Indus said the 11 heroin using a mortality rate of 36 cocaine using rats also lost More weight and suffered a More marked decline in Overall health than the heroin using according to the cocaine produces a More tenacious de said Ronald a pharmacologist at the University of califor Nia at los Angeles school of government estimates put the number of cocaine users at 5 million to 8 Siegel said in a Telephone interview but he said that his studies indicate 24 million would be a conserva Tive in another Russell How Ard and colleagues at Northwestern univer sity medical school described the Case of a previously healthy 28yearold woman who had never had heart problems but suffered a heart attack after using cocaine on and off Over several the researchers said that should Alert the medical Community to the possibility that some people who do not have heart disease May be More prone to heart attacks after using of Matthew Gongwe and three other Black anti apartheid witnesses said police shot dead two youths and wounded others in clashes in nearby Dudura township Friday National police Headquarters in Pretoria said 79 Blacks were arrested Friday in co in Cape on charges of Public a Black policeman there shot and killed four Blacks in a crowd that attacked his Home in new a Black township near port police said United demo cratic front members critically wounded a member of the Azania Peoples Organiza a rival anti apartheid news update real thing imported Seattle up the Leader of the Campaign against the new taste of coca cola has received a shipment of old Flavoured Coke from Australia described As a prelude to Large scale imports of the real a spokesman for Gay president of old cola drinkers of said Mullins received a Small shipment of the soft drink from a flight arriving at Seattle a coma International this is just a we want to bring in larger shipments the spokesman the old Coke still is still produced in some he a retired medical researcher and Low income housing launched a drive to Force coca cola to return to its original flavor after the company spent More than million Ballyhoo ing the taste change in a National Media manhunt Leader Dies England a George the police chief who led the Hunt for the Yorkshire Britain biggest Ever has died after a Long his family who died at finder Fields Hospital in West never broke his silence on How he handled the controversial five year search for mass murderer Peter Oldfield was assistant chief con stable in West Yorkshire in charge of the criminal investigation division during the after Sutcliffe was caught in Oldfield was switched to a less strenuous Post and retired Early two years ago because of ill a former truck drive pleaded guilty to killing 13 Young women and the attempted murders of seven others Over five years in Yorkshire and neighbouring North England he is serving a life sentence in Par burst prison on the Isle of