June 27, 1979

Auction of fine French furniture and art objects held at Le Sporting Club in Monte Carlo brings staggering $13 million; some 900 people attend; works are officially described as Akram Ojjeh collection; Sotheby Parke Bernet chairman Peter Wilson comments; illus

Gasoline shortage has begun to have serious impact on sales in nation's stores and supermarkets, particularly in suburbs and outlying areas, according to retailers across country (M)

Dave Anderson comment; illus (M)

Pres Carter and Japanese Prime Min Masayoshi Ohira end 2 days of talks in Oiso, Japan, with what officials from both countries call an agreement to fix specific oil import levels for '79 and '80; Treasury Sec W Michael Blumenthal says thrust of American oil policy at Tokyo summit conference will control oil prices by cutting oil imports of major industrial countries by up to 2 million bbls a day; says International Energy Agency's goal of cutting imports 5% this year should be made more specific-interpreted as cut from actual imports, not from some theoretical level that would otherwise have been reached (M)

Energy

Federal District Court Chief Judge David N Edelstein denies IBM motion to quash Federal Government subpoena served on company chairman Frank T Cary for voluminous documents concerning Government's antitrust suit against company; IBM says subpoena will force it to copy more than 5 billion pages of documents in more than 120 countries; ruling holds subpoena is ‘neither unreasonable nor oppressive’; company's chief lawyer Thomas Barr says order could delay trial ‘very many months’ and ‘perhaps years’; Federal Appeals Court, San Francisco, upholds trial court's '77 directed verdict that dismissed charges against IBM of monopolistic practices in suit brought by California Computer Products Inc (S)

Govt sends helicopter-borne assault force into Lusaka, Zambia, killing 22 people in what is presented as preemptive strike against guerrillas; helicopters attack houses in northeastern suburbs occupied by officials of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union; also attack installation of Zimbabwe guerrilla group at Chikumbi; Zimbabwe Rhodesian Parliament meet for 1st time in regular session; Pres Josiah Gumede demands international recognition for new govt, speech; officials in Salisbury say that pressure on Nkomo and his aides, together with embarrassment for Zambia Pres Kenneth D Kaunda of having his capital invaded, may persuade Nkomo to sue for accommodation; raid appears to have ended possibility of meeting between Kaunda and Muzorewa; map (L)

CDME Friday around midnight, Mark Shaw, native son of Cartersville, Ga., heads to Pero's, a red‐fronted bar snuggled between a post office and a dry cleaner at 251 East 85th Street. He en- ters the one‐room establishment said to be a dead ringer for “The Shack” Chapel Hill, N.C., student hangout converted from a car repair shop. There's a bowling machine against one wall, a juke lick against another. Tending bar, Confederate cap pushed back from his forehead, is Shanton (Red) Granger, an Atlanta‐bred actor.

OPEC oil ministers end 1st day of price-fixing conference in Geneva amid strong indications that it will raise price of crude oil as high as $20 a bbl; allocate $800 million in aid to third-world countries to be disbursed through OPEC development fund; say principal concern is ending chaos in world oil market; comments by Abdel-Aziz bin Khalifa al-Thani (Qatar), Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Saudi Arabia), Humberto Calderon Berti (Venezuela) and Nordine ait-Laoussine (Algeria); illus of Yamani, Hassan Nazih (Iran), Mani Said al-Otaiba (United Arab Emirates) and Dr Ibunn Subroto (Indonesia) (M)

Oil industry specialists say gasoline supplies will remain tight as nation enters peak summer driving season; increase in July deliveries to gas stations are planned by Mobil, Atlantic Richfield, Ashland Qil and Cities Service; Continental Oil will cut deliveries; Mobil accuses Government of lengthening gas lines in urban areas by enforcing an allocation rule that favors rural and resort communities (M)

Is publicly executed, Accra, Ghana; por (S)

Pres Carter attends ‘town meeting’ in Shimodo, Japan, at which he fields questions about his family, childhood and background; 1 questioner causes stir when she asks him about racial discrimination in US and whether, if he were not already married, he would marry black woman; he says he would (S)