_ By ELMER W. LAMNI.

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ina ..
new. report, the CIA for the ©
—~ second time predicts thatthe .
Soviet Union will have to

start importing ‘oil within a -

few years.

Rep. -Les Aspin, D-Wis.,

said Sunday the CIA believes .

Soviet - oil - production may

begin ‘to decline next year -

and.the communist countries

~—~as a whole will: become oil

importers rather than ex-
porters within three years.

The Wisconsin ‘Democrat
is chairman of the House
subcommittee on in-
telligence oversight.

“We may. be seeing the
peak of Soviet oil production -_
right now,” he said in ‘a_
statement Sunday.

CIA
che said, Soviet

According. to
estimates, .

production reached a record .

high: 11,73 million. barrels a
day in April and then fell to
11.35 million in May. a

While it might be possible
“gloat” over the drop:.in
Soviet ‘production, Aspin.

“Said, the result would be a

may fall bya a third i in the next.
- six years.

best

“conservation measures that

totalitarian state.

be producing 10 million

barrels a. day i in 1985, but if -
‘them:
production of only 8: miltion

Tuck -isn’t with.

is very likely,” he. said.

For several years, Aspin’ "
communist -

‘said, the
countries have been = ex-

decrease in ‘the world supply ~-

and more upward pressure
on oil prices.

He said the CIA now

believes Soviet production

China admits
involvement
in Vietnam wor

porting’ about 1 tillion
barrels a day to the ‘West. - :
Aspin said. a_ similar

forecast. by the CIA in 1977
involved it in “considerable
controversy,” with critics
arguing the CIA had ignored

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300,000 personnel

PEKING (UPI) - China
disclosed Monday . that it
sent more _than 300,000
military personnel to In-
dochina during the Vietnam
War and that thousands of
them were killed in the
American bombing of North
Vietnam.

The disclosure of what

some U.S. officials believed ~

were the first official details
of China’s active par-
ticipation in the war came
during the ninth deadlocked
“session of peace talks
between Peking and Hanoi,
friends during the American
involvement but now bitter
enemies.

Although the speeches at
the session released by the
two countries were angry
they agreed to meet again in
Peking for a 10th session.

Stung by Vietnam's charge
that Peking aided Hanoi
during its war with the
United States so as to

“annex” Vietnam, Chinese
Chief Delegate Han
Nianlong said, “The bodies
of Chinese martyrs in their
thousands remain on
Vietnamese soil.”

At a news conference
later, Yang Gong Su,
China's Deputy |. chief
delegate, told Chinese and
foreign journalists
between 1964 and 1971 “the
total number of Peoples
Liberation Army personnel
in Vietnam was more than
300,000.”

“It was mainly during the
war with the United States
that China sent large
numbers of engineers and air
defense personnel to insure
transportation of goods or to
help in air defense,” he said. -

“Several thousands also
were wounded. They un-
dertook repairing work and
engineering tasks to
maintain highways and
railways in the north.”

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was in satisfactory condition
early this week with at least

He ‘Said the CIA -later—one—broken. bone suffered

issued . _another » Study in

which. ‘all references to
Soviet ° oil _imports _were
~ dropped. ~

years of assessing a growing

body of. data, the-CIA has
‘réached essentially. the same.

conclusion as in 1977—that
the Soviet Union i in the very

near future will’ need to

import oil,” .

Aspin’s
statement said. : ,

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when a life guard’s jeep ran
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shade of a palm tree on the
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Officials at North Beach

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Now, - after two “more .

Catabbo of Kitchner, Ont.,

suffered. a broken bone in.

her neck and possible
broken ribs in the accident.

Catabbo said she had a
premonition just before the
jeep reached her Saturday.
and opened her eyes. One of
the tires of the Fort

Lauderdale Beach Patrol.

seers ‘rolled across the side-of

her face and then another ,
‘rolled across her chest as she
‘screamed.

‘I think I almost would
_ have been better off if I had_.

not. opened my eyes,” she
said from her hospital bed.
“But I just sensed something
was going to happen.”

The lifeguard said he had’

.just made a U-turn and came
over a slight rise, which ©

prevented him from seeing ,.
the woman.

Catabbo, a lab technician
at a textile plant, was
winding up a- two-week
vacation with. her husband
and his mother and sister at
the time of the accident. -

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fellow Conservative cabinet
ministers’ calls for restraint
and said a national economic
Strategy to conserve
resources was nceded.

Canadians = and
American neighbors were
now on an energy roller
coaster hanging at the cdge
of a “dizzy descent”, he told
more than 2,000 delogates
attending the 34th annual
meeting of the Soil Con-
servation Society of
America. He said there must
be a concentrated program
to “become good stewards”
and consume fewer goods.

their

Last week, Finance
Minister Jobn Crosbic
warned Canadians were

was able to repair “10 years
of Liberal economic
mismanagement.”

“People are going to have
to consume less and con-
serve more,” Crosbie said.

Energy Minister Ray
Hnatyshyn also warned
Canadians last week to cut
back their cnergy = con-
sumption.

“We can turn the heat
down ... give the air con-

ditioners a rest, and we can
sweat a little in summer and
shiver a bit in winter,” Fraser
said. “We can also use
products like wood instead
of steel or aluminum, thus
reducing energy needs in
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