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...nurses, Leonora Perez, 33, and Filipina Narciso, 31, stoutly maintained their innocence, and their case became a cause celebre. Nursing groups rallied behind them, and their supporters in both. Manila and the U.S. raised a defense fund of more than $100,000. At the University of Michigan, many feminists and liberals regarded the nurses as victims of an overzealous local FBI office eager to redeem itself after its failure to crack the still unsolved kidnaping of former Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa that same summer...
...prosecution's evidence was entirely circumstantial: the nurses were nearly unique in having easy access to the drugs and the victimized patients. No motive for the crimes was ever demonstrated. Midway in the 13-week trial, the judge threw out the murder indictment against Perez, although he let most poisoning charges stand...
Collision Course. One of the few favorable signs at the conference was that the Southern polemics were somewhat more restrained than usual. Said Venezuela's Minister of State, Manuel Perez Guerreo: "You can't get a new international economic order in 18 months." How serious the conflict between the two groups really was may become clearer in July when OPEC leaders, still divided among themselves, meet in Stockholm for a review of oil prices that could once again put North and South on a collision course...
Some OPEC leaders have tried to close the rift, but so far without success. The latest attempt was made by President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. In a fast-paced tour of the Middle East, Perez sought to persuade his warring OPEC colleagues to accept a compromise. His proposal was presumably along these lines: the Eleven would forgo the 5% price increase scheduled to go into effect in July; in return, so the speculation goes, the Saudis and Emirates would allow their prices to rise, gradually closing the 10% differential...
...Perez is optimistic about an eventual settlement. But other OPEC leaders are being typically cantankerous. The three hard-liners for higher prices -Iran, Iraq and Nigeria-seem committed to press ahead with the 5% rise...