European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday september 20, 1985 . Officials say saudi Oil Price cuts Good for country Washington a . Officials confirming reports that saudi Arabia is cutting its Oil prices see the development As Good for this country but they arc unwilling to say if it will dramatically lower Gas Oline and Home heating Bills. Certainly the action is significant but i m not sure that it s determinative yet Energy Secretary John Herrington told re porters wednesday. Herrington said contracts that saudi Arabia has signed with three major Oil companies reportedly Exxon Texaco and Mobil in order to raise its production Only bring the saudi Price Down $2 or s3 per barrel. If you increase the amount of Supply the Price is going to fall Charles Dibona president of the Oil Industry s american Petroleum Institute said wednesday. But in the Short run Price elasticity is Small. If Winter demand is Cut at the same time this is occurring you could have a significant Price drop but we Don t know  Herrington said . Officials Are Uncer Tain about the motives behind saudi willingness for the first time to openly under mine the official s28 per barrel Price of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries. Are they working internally prior to the oct. 3 meeting of open. To punish other producers for cutting their prices or Are they free Lancing he asked. Saudi Arabia can produce up to 10 Mil lion barrels per Day. But to prevent a col lapse of the open Cartel and a possible Price War amid a worldwide Oil glut it recently has been pumping Only 2.5 million barrels daily Well below its open set quota of 4.3 million barrels. According to the Middle East economic Survey a Cyprus based Oil publication that first reported the new transactions the deals with Texaco Mobil and Exxon will boost saudi production 800,000 barrels per Day effective oct. I. The publication also said the saudis were negotiating a similar setback Price with Shell. Under setback pricing an arrangement that has dominated International Oil Trade recently crude prices Are determined by the prices of gasoline heat ing Oil and other Petroleum products. Spokesmen for the four Oil companies have refused to comment on the reported transactions. You re seeing the Market work her ringtone said wednesday in the first confirmation of the reports by a government offi Cial. An Effort to control open crude prices at an artificial level does not Benefit american Consumers or american Industry. A return to lower Cost Energy would be Good for this  Herrington said a continuing erosion of crude Oil prices could cause the Reagan administration to rethink its desire to Stop filling the nation s strategic Petroleum re serve once it reaches 489 million barrels at the end of this month. The emergency stockpile located in Salt caverns in Texas and Lousiana has a capacity of 750 million barrels. Thinking Snow when temperatures dipped below Freez ing in Central Vermont the Killington ski area took advantage by testing their Snow making system. Anxious to try out the machine made Snow on the upper Cascade Trail is Tyna Baird a killing ton employee. The area Hopes to open for the season in october. Too Many soviets in ., says Weinberger Washington up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said thursday the number of soviet officials in the United states should be reduced. He said Jim agrees with assistant defense Secretary Richard Perle who said wednes Day that the United states would Benefit by enormously reducing the number of so Viet officials in this  Weinberger made the comment at a wide ranging 30-minute news conference in which he said he did not think the first . Anti satellite test against a target in space sept. 13 was in any sense provocative toward the soviet Union. The defense Secretary was asked whether he agreed with Perle about cutting Back on the numbers of soviets in the United states. Weinberger replied that soviet officials sent to the United states Are trained As intelligence agents or might As Well be and that we have to understand that and understand How much damage can be  the reduction in numbers i think would be a useful Start he said. When pressed later on the same subject about How the United states should Deal with the Issue Weinberger said Only that there Are diplomatic ways of reducing the number of officials. But he declined to go into further details. We have a Large number of soviets not Only Here but in Many other countries far out of proportion to the reciprocal num Bers of . Officials in the soviet Union Weinberger said. I think we have to Bear in mind and it s Only prudent to do so that the soviets Don t Send people to countries like the United states unless they Are fully equipped fully trained and either part of the Kab or might just As Well be because that Intelli gence gathering is one of their subsidiary  the defection of a soviet double agent in Britain last week sparked the expulsion of 31 britons from the soviet Union and 31 soviets from Britain. Diver trapped for 45 minutes Dies sen. East , won t run again Raleigh . A sen. John East the conservative Republican protege of sen. Jesse Helms has announced that he will not seek a second term in 1986 because of poor health throwing wide open a crucial race in the two party Battle for control of the Senate. Although my interest in and dedication to the political process and the conservative cause remains undiminished and unabated i will not be a candidate for re election said East. East 54, said he would Complete his term. Atlanta a Rescue workers fearful of harming a fire department diving instructor listened in anguish for 45 min utes to his radio relayed cries As he Lay trapped by an underwater drainage pipe at a dam officials said. When the cries stopped the diver was yanked from the pipe by a Crane but he was pronounced dead at a Hospital Accord ing to authorities. Mike Gurley 34, who had More than 10 years experience As a fire department diver was performing underwater work for Georgia Power co. At the time of the Acci Dent said Fulton police it. Tom Corey and Rick Rountree a spokesman for Georgia Power which operates the Morgan Falls dam. Fire department battalion chief Danny Bowman said Gurley had been sent to the Chattahoochee River to train some fire fighters. Up untrue said the group of divers had been hired by a Georgia Power subcontractor to repair an underwater valve and to retrieve equipment lost during recent construction work. Gurley was working on the valve when intense suction pulled his left leg into a 14 Inch pipe shortly after noon wednesday Bowman said. Georgia Power engineers opened other valves to try to equalize the pressure in the pipe but to no Avail Rountree said. Rescue workers on land could hear Gur Ley Over the radio during most of the ordeal. You could hear he was very scared. It was pitch Black and cold Down there Sai Dcorey. Rescuers delayed using a Crane on Gur Ley for fear they would break or tear off his leg. But after 45 minutes Gurley stopped talking into a microphone in his diving mask and 15 minutes later he was yanked from the pipe with the Crane breaking his leg said Bowman. Gurley was flown by helicopter to North Side Hospital where he was pronounced dead Bowman said. The last thing i heard him say was get my wife Here i ight now " said Mark Crisp Georgia Power s construction manager at the dam. Gurley lived in Ball ground with his wife and three Young daughters. Gurley was a master  said Firo department battalion chief de Norris. I Don t know of anybody who was More Quali  Bulldozer crushes sunbathe Clearwater Fla. A a 71 year old Retiree was fatally injured while sunbathing in a lounge chair at the Beach when a Bulldozer ran Over him police said. Daniel j. Sullivan originally from Cape cod mass., was rushed to a Hospital after  crushed beneath the left rear tire of the machine but died an hour later police said. Sgt. Mike Bruscell said a Public works Crew was Clearing debris left by Hurricane pc Luna from an area beneath a pier. Ray Brock an 11-year Clearwater Public works department employee apparently did t Sec Sullivan Bruscell said. As Brock backed the Bulldozer another worker apparently warned the elderly Man to move. Bruscell said Sullivan tried but was not Able to get out of the Way in time. Sullivan s wife Mary said the couple moved to Florida s Gulf coast about five years ago after her husband retired from his Job As a Salesman for Puritan clothing co. In Cape cod