University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 10
Economic index climbs after two weak months
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The government's index of leading economic indicators climbed 1.1 percent in January, regaining its strength after two exceptionally weak months, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
A surge in building permits, growth in the average workweek and the month's improvement in new orders for consumer goods were the leaders among the six indicators that were positive factors in January.
Other helpful indicators were an improvement in the pace of new claims for unemployment benefits, orders for factory equipment and a slight gain in January's average of common stock prices.
The four negative indicators for the month were the rate of new business formations, a decline in a broad measure of the money supply, the rate of business deliveries and prices of raw materials.
materials The composite index of leading indicators was 164.7 in January compared to a level of 100 in 1967.
Designed to anticipate economic trends, the index has been on an upward path since July 1982 except for a 0.1 percent decline in November.
December's increase, also revised in the latest report, was only 0.1 percent instead of the originally reported 0.6 percent improvement.
The index suggested that the economy's immediate future promises more of the strong economic performance up in January in sales and production.
Judge demands investigation of Carter briefing-paper case
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A federal judge, saying the Department of Justice seems to have "simply ignored" a Watergate-era law, yesterday kept alive a suit demanding that a special prosecutor investigate how President Carter's briefing papers got to Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign.
U. S. District Judge Harold Greene ordered the Justice Department to respond to a citizen's lawsuit challenging the government's failure to request that a special prosecutor investigate the case.
the judge's ruling came just days after the Justice Department closed its books without bringing any criminal charges in the case. The incident marks
the third time the department has lost court challenges because of its failure to abide by the Watergate-era Ethics in Government Act.
In a report last week, the department said an eight-month FBI investigation failed to determine who passed the bombing when papers to Reagan's campaign.
The department said that in interviews with more than 220 people, including President Reagan, and a review of about 1,000 boxes of documents, it had found no evidence that any Carter White House papers reached the Reagan camp.
It also said there was no "specific, credible information of a federal crime" to prompt an investigation under the special prosecutor's law.
Federal board to lose power to control smoking on planes
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said yesterday that federal authority to control smoking on domestic flights would expire Dec. 31 but said she expected the agency to voluntarily honor current practices.
Dole, testifying before a House aviation subcommittee, said that the Civil Aeronautics Board would go out of control as a result of the Airline Deregulation Act.
Many of the board's functions will be transferred to the Department of Transportation, Dole said, but the government's authority to impose smoking regulations on commercial airliners will expire.
"I do not believe, however, that the absence of federal smoking regulations will be a problem." Dole said in testimony submitted to the panel.
"The majority of airline passengers regularly state a preference to be seated in a non-smoking area of the aircraft cabin.
Congress could decide to reimpose smoking regulations after Dec. 31.
A spokesman for the CAB confirmed that federal rules governing smoking on domestic airplanes, such as providing non-smoking sections, would expire at the end of this year. The board may decide within a few weeks to ban smoking entirely on short flights, but such a ban, if approved, would be in effect only for a few months, the spokesman said.
Canada's Trudeau will step down
By United Press International
Canada's Liberal Party automatically means Trudeau will leave the post of prime minister. It was not clear when the resignation would take place.
"The experience of being leader of our great party has been one of the joys of my life. But I now feel this is the appropriate time from someone else to assume this challenge." Trudeau said in a letter to Liberal President Iona Campagnolo.
OTTAVA — Pierre Elliott Trudeau,
Canada's flamboyant prime minister,
announced yesterday that he was
retiring after nearly 16 years in office.
Stepping down as leader of
"Why today? Well, because it's a good day," Trudeau told reporters outside his Parliament Hill office. "It's the first day of the rest of my life. I had a good day yesterday and it seemed to be a good day to have the
THE NEWS OF Trudeau's decision broke as his staff was called to an emergency meeting. Trudeau then went home to inform his three sons.
Trudeau, 64, decided to end his political career Tuesday during a solitary midnight walk through a raging snowstorm outside his official residence, spokesman Ralph Coleman said.
Many had speculated for months that Trudeau, who has been Canadian prime minister for all but nine months since April 1968, would step aside.
"I had a good day, a good walk in the snow I went to judo and here I read."
Trudeau said in his letter that he
would remain as prime minister until a leadership convention could be held.
last dav.
TRUDEAU CAN COUNT among his major achievements the creation of a new constitution with a Charter of Rights, official bilingualism for Canada, and the creation of a national energy policy.
Trudeau recently met in Moscow with the Soviet Union's new leader, Konstantin Chernenko, as part of a series of visits to world capitals on a self-styled international peace mission aimed at nuclear disarmament.
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