European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday january 21,1989 Model ends term by granting new benefits to Oil firms Washington a Interior Secretary Donald Hodel took Steps in his last Day on the Job to boost the nation s Oil production by granting new benefits to Oil companies. Following reports this week of slumping . Oil production Hodel on thursday lowered the rates Oil companies pay to Drill on leased Federal land and recommended that the vast Alaska wildlife Refuge be opened to Oil exploration. Decreasing the leasing fees for millions of acres inthe West could Cost taxpayers an estimated $35 Mil lion annually said Marta Witt a spokeswoman for the department s Bureau of land management. The move published thursday in the Federal Regis ter and scheduled to take effect March 1, will lower leasing rates that now Range from $2 to $3 Down to $1 per acre on leases issued before 1987. Later leases carry a different schedule of fees. This action is consistent with other Steps the department has taken Over the past two years when Oil prices bottomed out and . Production began to dwindle to the Point of serious concerns to the Point of even National Security Impact said Timothy Locke a spokesman for the Bureau. According to Witt about 70 million acres of Federal land in several Western states Are currently leased to Oil exploration firms about half which was under lease six years ago. About half those lands Are already leased for $ 1 per acre she said. We Hope this decreases the holding costs for these existing leases said Witt. We Don t envision this leased acreage being increased so much As we Hope that what is already leased remains in the hands of companies longer and the savings Are used to develop the in the second move Hodel recommended that con Gress allow native alaskan corporations to Trade ownership of land they hold for Mineral rights to thou Sands of acres in the Federal Arctic National wildlife Refuge and other refuges in Alaska Interior depart ment spokesman Tom Wilson said. The right to allow such exchanges rests with con Gress. Congress last year received a report from the general accounting office that says that trades the department wanted to make vastly overstated the value of the land the government was to receive. The Federal land would remain . Government property with the Indian Eskimo and aleut corporations taking Over rights to what Oil analysts project As massive Oil deposits possibly As Large As the hug Prudhoe Bay Field. Environmentalists have opposed Reagan administration moves to allow Oil exploration of the Refuge. Wilson said Hodel s recommendation came after the department completed a two year environmental Impact statement. The american Petroleum Institute wednesday announced that . Imports jumped 9 percent in 1988 to the highest Levels in nine years. At the same time the Institute reported that Domestic Oil production sagged to a 12-year Low of 8.1 million barrels a Day last year Down 3 percent from 1987. The actions this week Are a reaction to the Sam kind of statistics we be been seeing that show problems in american production said Witt. Meanwhile the agriculture department on thurs Day proposed new rules that will give the Agency a say in the leasing of National Forest land to Oil and Gas developers. Leasing authority has been held exclusively by the Bureau of land management but legislation in 1987 expanded the authority of the Secretary of agriculture. Rock and Rollin readout seismic analyst Steve Bryant explains the Richter scale quake rattled the los Angeles Are readings that were recorded at the California Institute quake has been forced by s of technology in Pasadena Calif., after a mild Earth ter shocks Cal tech scientists said 100 d 200�� a. " " study says 20% of . Men Hod Washington a at least 20 percent of american adult men have had one or More homosexual experiences and a minimum of 3.3 percent have such contacts with some frequency according to a study by the National research Council. The study an analysis of data collected by questionnaires in 1970 and in a 1988 National Survey suggests that the minimum number of american men who have had at least one homosexual experience is lower than the estimates compiled 40 years ago by famed sex re searcher Alfred Kinsey. But Charles f. Turner an arc scientist who co authored the new study in the Magazine science said setts estimates Are the lowest possible number and that there is not enough data to establish a True number which he thinks would be higher. All of the estimates that we have made Are lower bound estimates Turner said thursday ii a Telephone interview. These numbers Are Best treated As a minimum we re not saving what the True number i but Only that this is the test that can be done in terms of setting a lower s he said the uncertainty is the result of the assume tendency of surveyed men to be untruthful about to stateside hmm applause Marks Farewell to state dept. Boss Shultz Washington a hundreds of applauding state department officials gave a teary eyed Secretary of state George p. Shultz an emotional Send off thurs Day As he ended 6 i years As America s top Diplomat standing before the throng in the state department lobby Shultz placed his Arm around his wife obie and said we came As a package Deal. We leave As in a wavering voice Shultz praised his state depart ment colleagues and said it was a tremendous privilege to be a part of this loss of part of Wing forces Jet to turn Back Atlanta up an Eastern airlines boeing757 in route to los Angeles lost a Section of its wine thursday night and returned to Atlanta where it made a Safe Landing the Federal aviation administration said. Eastern s flight 83, which had 110 people aboard was in the Vicinity of Birmingham ala., when the Pilot told air traffic controllers the plane had lost a 3-by-5 foot panel off its left Wing and was returning to Atlanta. Faa spokesman Jack Barker said the plane which had left Atlanta at 8 04 ., made a Safe uneventful Landing at Atlanta s Hartsfield International Airport at9 04 No one was injured and the passengers were put on another aircraft and resumed their flight to Losangeles authorities said. The panel came off the upper portion of the left Wing of the 757. Barker said there were unconfirmed reports the Wing panel nicked the aircraft s Tail when i came off. Mom 5 children rescued just before train hit car Buena Park Calif. Up two Railroad employees plucked a woman and five children from a car seconds before it was smashed to pieces thursday by speeding Amtrak train. Lorraine Ruiz 26, of Buena Park with five children in the car ranging from 2 to 8, hesitated and stopped her car on the tracks at a crossing said Buena Par police officer Rich Mcmillen. Detectives said it was believed she froze when Seesaw a train coming. A crossing Arm came Down and landed on her trunk with a westbound Amtrak train bearing Down on the car at about 50 Mph. With the train Only about 100 Yards away two Santa be Railroad employees working nearby Joe Otero 44,a trackman from Anaheim and Anthony Morales 32, a track supervisor from Hesperia ran to help Mcmil Len said. Slow wheels of Justice finally Chase thief Down Greensburg a. A a Man was charge with stealing a forklift after leading police on one of me lowest chases on record. I guess you could say we had a High Speed Chase at seven Miles per hour said police it. Ronald Waugh Man. Clinton j. Candy 48, of Greensburg allegedly hopped on the 1981 Caterpillar Tow motor thursday afternoon turned the keys that had been left in the ignition and drove off. An employee of Overly manufacturing co., which owns the vehicle called police and a Cruiser with hashing lights and a blaring Siren caught up with the crawling Caterpillar. When he saw the car he just turned around smiled waved and kept on going Waugaman said. Andy finally pulled Over and was arrested. Gay experience a sexual experiences. He said there is a need to compile accurate data on homosexuals in order to assess the Progress of the Epi a Mic of aids or acquired immune deficiency syn Rome. Homosexual males Are considered a major risk group for aids. An arc study on this Issue will be released next month said Turner. The new estimates Are derived from an analysis of Survey data collected from 3,018 adults in 1970 by the Kinsey Institute for sex research in Indiana. Data from a a Stey by the National opinion research Cente was used to verify some assumptions made in analysis
