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Press, 3 June 1981, Page 8

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Oil Freeze Urged The United Arab Emirate. 1 - Oil Minister has urged an 18 nonth O.P.E.C. oil-price freeze, arguing that the ex porters could be in danger o pricing themselves out of thi market and needed time t< think. Dr Mana Said Oteibs told a London energy symposium he believed that the real price of oil might alreadv be close to a reasonable level and that possibly “we should take it easy from now on.” Dr Oteiba noted that O.P.E.C. froze prices until December 10 when it met in Geneva last week, but he wished to go further “and call for freezing the price o' oil until the end of 1982." - t . London. PM. Pressured Italy’s Communists, relishing the discomfort of other parties over the Masonic scandal which brought down the Government last Week, has piled more pressure on the caretaker Prime Minister (Mr Arnaldo Forlani). Mi Forlani, has resumed hfcmeetings with party leaders but-? neither the opposition Communists nor the Social ists have given any hint tha' they want a quick end to th<. fourty : first post-war Govern ment crisis. “We have n< intention of collaborating with Mr Forlani,” said the Communist leader, Enrico Berlinguer, whose part is so far untouched by the murky P2 Masonic scandal which prompted the resignation of Mr Forlani’s seven-month coalition last week. Mr Forlani’s dominant Christian Democrats have refused communist demands to be included in the Cabinet for the first time but are anxious to avoid a full-scale confront.' tion with Mr Berlinguer. Rome. U.N. Fund Proposal ; Western countries ha\e> proposed that the United Nations replenish a private fund from which it paid newspa-. pers in several countries to", print articles favourable to the Third World, according to a United Nations spokes-, man. In recommendations submitted to the United Nations committee on information, the countries proposed that funds be sought immediately to ensure that information on development questions and the “new international economic order” continued to be' printed, he said. — New York.Guardian For Star? Rita Hayworth, once known as the “love goddess” of Hollywood, is no longer able to care for her health and financial needs, a lawyer has said in a court petition filed in Los Angeles. Leonard Monroe asked the Los Angeles Superior Court to ap point him guardian for Mis! Hayworth, aged 61. Th< Court set June 17 to hear the request. "Miss Hayworth, whose best known films include, “Gilda,” “Human Cargo” and “Miss Sadie Thompson,” lives in the fashionable Beverley Hills area of Los Angeles. — Los Angeles. Lone Sailor ‘ Gerry Piess, schoolteacher, has set ou from Long Beach Californi; on a three-metre sailboat t< sail across the Pacific on hi own. Mr. Piess has already completed a small-boat re cord sailing alone across th< Atlantic, on Yankee Girl, only slightly longer than his new boat. He hopes to reach Sydney in the beginning of November,- after landfalls at Honolulu, Samoa and Tonga. - Long Heath. Mhim i dUS*"' -