European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday March 18, 1986 open Oil ministers suspend crisis talks Geneva up divided open Oil ministers sus Pended emergency talks on collapsing prices for 24 hours monday for experts to evaluate Likely world Oil demand through the end of the year. Delegates said the Man Euver was designed to gain time because of a split Between the 13 ministers on production cuts to boost prices. Estimates on future Supply and demand obviously existed before the conference began on sunday a Gulf Delegate said privately. Venc Elan Oil minister Arturo Hernandez Grisanti the current open president told reporters the emergency meeting was on a standby1 pending the report and any recommendations from the group of experts. Ministers would hold private bilateral consultations until resuming full talks on tuesday he said. At this stage there Are no Concrete proposals on a production ceiling being discussed Hernandez Grisan isaid. Open last december abandoned efforts to enforce out put and pricing controls among members and instead declared open Battle against outside producers. Prices since have slumped by nearly 60 percent from $28 to around $12 or $13 per barrel threatening some open states with financial disaster. Despite the open crisis continued differences were Clear when the emergency conference began on sunday. Some ministers called for open production cuts and Radical members Algeria Libya and Iran even demanded a Complete halt to output for two to four weeks. But saudi Arabia s influential Sheik Ahmed Zakiya Mani said Market stabilization at higher prices requires the cooperation of All producer nations open and non open alike. Gulf delegates said it was highly improbable that agreement could be reached on any open production ceiling because of bitter squabbling Over individual quotas. These delegates predicted Little More than a general undertaking by members to limit output in Hopes of higher prices and outside producers following suit especially North sea Oil states Britain and Norway. Open currently has about 30 percent of world Oil markets against 65 percent in its 1970s heydays. It is pumping an estimated 17 million barrels of Oil a Day although current demand for open Oil is put at around 16 million barrels and could drop to just 14 million barrels in the warm summer months. Open ministers scheduled a meeting wednesday with non member producers but Only Mexico Egypt malay Sia Oman and Brunei accepted the invitation. Britain and Norway declined maintaining their position that free Market forces should control Supply and demand. Activists end 32-Day hunger strike get building Money for homeless in  Washington a Mitch Snyder and 12 other activists for the homeless ended their 32-Day hunger strike after persuading the Federal government to turn Over a dilapidated building to the District of co Lumbia and contribute $5 million for its renovation. The president is very pleased with to Day s monday agreement. For the City of Washington s homeless said Denny Brisley an assistant White House press Secretary after the agreement was announced sunday. The settlement extricate the government from a feud with Snyder that began no vember 1984 when on the eve of the presidential election president Reagan agreed to turn the 900-bed facility into a Model physical shelter ending Snyder s nationally publicized 51-Day hunger strike. Now the City will assume title to the fed eral building As Well As dealings with Snyder s Community for creative non Vio Lence. This Transfer represents the first step toward ensuring that those in need can find Safe Haven until each can come to grips with his or her own problem Brisley said. She said the White House hoped con Gress would pass enabling legislation As soon As possible so that mayor Marion Barry May implement the agreement. However the City has taken on its role reluctantly. We re not Happy with this Barry said at a news conference inside the building sunday. But we re confident we can make this into a Model  both Snyder and Barry had insisted the problem was the responsibility of the Federal government. Snyder was in the Hospital for one night last week because of the effects of his monthlong fast. Appearing Pale and weak he and the other hunger strikers joined Barry at a table As they broke the fast with split pea soup and bread. Snyder who had been asking the Federal government to provide $7.5 million said his organization would Start a drive to raise the additional $2.5 million he said is needed to refurbish the Structure. We re gratified he said. The administration could have proceeded with their plan to throw us out. But i must confess i Don t understand Why we who Are working around the clock providing services to these people must now raise $2.5 million for the privilege of dealing with a population no one else wants to look  Barry said he will seek donations of material and labor from private contractors to help get the building refurbished. Members of Snyder s group have occupied the surplus world War ii building three blocks from the Capitol since Jan uary 1984, when the Federal government allowed them to enter As part of what was called a temporary arrangement. The Federal government and Snyder have been at Odds Over the building s Fate since last Spring when Snyder barred workmen from entering the building accusing the government of intending to do Only Patch work repairs far Short of the president s Promise. The government later won court approval of a plan to evict the homeless men and women after setting up an alternative shelter in another part of the City. Federal officials opened the alternative shelter earlier this year but then retreated from their threat to close Snyder s shelter. After renovations the shelter will be the most comprehensive in the United states Snyder said. He said it will have an employ ment counselling Center a drug and alcohol ism treatment Center Legal Aid mental counselling and other services All staffed by professional people at no Cost to the fed eral  Sweden seeks to extend police custody of Man held As suspect in palme murder Stockholm Sweden a chief prosecutor . Svernsson monday sought court permission to keep in police custody a swede arrested last week on suspicion of complicity in the assassination of prime minister Olof palme. Stockholm police commissioner Hans Holmer briefing reporters on the investigation said there were probable reasons to suspect the Man of complicity in the  Holmer said the suspect behaved suspiciously near the site of palme s killing at the time of the shooting. The commissioner said the suspect in Many contexts has made himself known for diatribes against  the suspect s attorneys have described him As an anticommunist swede about 35 years old. Swedish Law allows a person to be held under arrest for five Days without a court permit. The suspect has neither been officially charged nor identified. His attorney has maintained he will be released. Palme 59, was shot in the Back As he and his wife walked unguarded through Stock Holm on the night of feb. 28. On sunday thousands of swedes stood in line to visit palme s grave in a downtown churchyard. Nobel preace prize laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Alan Loesak two of South Africa s most prominent anti apartheid activists eulogized palme at a memorial service at the Stock Holm Cathedral. Representatives of 120 nations including Royalty world leaders and ranking envoys gathered saturday for palme s civic funeral at Stockholm s Riverside City Hall. King Carl Xvi Gustaf told swedes their country had lost a voice everyone listened  . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar described palme As the quintessential Man of  palme s White casket was then drawn through the streets of Stockholm for the churchyard burial. Honecker plans visit to West Germany Bonn Germany a Erich Hon Ecker will become the first East German communist party Leader to visit West Ger Many when he arrives for official talks later this year the Bonn government announce monday. West German government spokesman Friedhelm Ost said Honecker confirmed the visit to Chancellor Helmut Kohl when they met in Stockholm on saturday during funeral services for the slain swedish prime minister Olof palme. East German government sources con firming Honecker s visit to the associated press on sunday in Leipzig said the East German Leader would visit Bonn at the end of june or beginning of july. Speaking at his regular news conference in Bonn Ost also said the Bonn government knew nothing about plans by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to visit West Germany this year. He said that Kohl had invited Gorbachev last year but that he knew of no plans for a visit in near future. Honecker cancelled a planned trip to West Germany in september 1984. News update political plot probed Bonn up a Christian democratic Leader has called for an investigation to see if the social democrats placed pressure on a prosecutor to proceed against chancello Helmut Kohl. The suspicion of a political plot is growing Friedrich Bohl parliamentary business manager of the ruling Christian democrats told the Bil newspaper. Bohl said the party will demand that the parliament in the state of nor Rhein Westphalia establish an investigating committee to look into what he called a Justice  he was referring to a belief in the party that the social democrats who Are in Power in the state were behind an order to the Bonn Public prosecutor to investigate allegations Kohl lied to a parliamentary panel looking into illegal party donations. 2nd reactor on line san Luis Obispo Calif. A the second reactor at the Diablo Canyon nuclear Power Plant has completed full Power testing and begun commercial operation Pacific Gas & electric co. Said. The Plant s unit 1 reactor has been producing Power commercially since May 1985. The two units at the $5.6 billion Plant together churn out up to 2.2 million kilowatts of electricity enough to Supply 2.2 million people the company said. Representatives from the state Public utilities. Commission were at the Plant to certify unit 2 s Commer Cial operation said Utility spokesman Ron Weinberg. Reprimand withdrawn Lahaina Hawaii a a postal clerk who got into trouble with his Boss for lowering the Flag to half staff after the space shuttle Chal Lenger exploded has had a letter of reprimand withdrawn from his file postal officials say. The letter written by Lahaina postmaster John Perry said Lloyd Labasan lowered the Flag without receiving permission to leave his assignment. Labasan said he lowered the Flag More than eight hours after the Jan. 28 explosion that killed seven astronauts. By then Labasan said a postal customer had complained to him that the Post office s Flag remained at full staff while other flags had been lowered All Over town. She said the governor and the president were on television and had ordered flags to be lowered Laba san said. Perry said he did t order the Flag lowered because he was awaiting instructions from the regional postmas Ter s office