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University Dally Kansan, February 14, 1984
NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
Houston job market to lead U.S. in '80s, group says
WASHINGTON — The Houston area will have the nation's fastest growing job market during the 1980s, but Dallas, San Antonio and Austin also are in the top 30, the National Planning Association said yesterday.
Laura Baughman of the independent, nonprofit Lauren's she thinks that the Houston area's job position will be capped by 607,000 employees in a million by the year 1990.
if 35 percent increase and reach 2.2 million by the end,
"Three other Texas metropolitan areas also are among the top 30,"
she said. "Dallas has 408,000 new jobs projected, San Antonio with
114,000 and Austin with 100,000."
Baughman said the NPA, a research organization specializing in domestic and international economic issues, bases its projections on an economic model of the United States that allows for the tendency for regional rates to even out over time.
Accidental-death tally falls in 1983
NEW YORK - About 91,000 people died in accidents in the United States in 1983 - a drop of about 2,000 from 1982, a survey showed yesterday.
Unlike 1982, when 154 lives were lost in a Kenner, La., plane crash, 1983 was free of any record catastrophes, and catastrophic deaths decreased by 40 percent, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. survey said.
The survey defined "catastrophe" as an accident that claims five or more lives.
Deaths in 1983 from all sources except fires dropped significantly, the survey said.
Dole recommends new FAA chief
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole said yesterday that she had recommended that retired Navy Vice Admiral Donald Engen be named the new head of the Federal Aviation Administration
Dole also announced that she was increasing FAA surveillance over the nation's air carriers.
"Air transportation, safe as it is today, can be made safer," she said. "I am increasing the FAA inspector force 25 percent, bringing it back to the high-level mark of the past decade."
Engen has been a member of the National Transportation Safety Board since 1982. He retired from the Navy in 1978 as deputy commander in chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
Ford reports first profit since 1979
DEARBORN, Mich. — After three straight annual losses totaling $3 billion, Ford Motor Co. reported a record $1.87 billion profit yesterday for 1983 — the biggest one-year earnings turnaround in U.S. corporate history
The 1983 results, which were higher than expected, triggered a $69 million profit-sharing payout for 158,000 U.S. hourly and salaried employees. Another $83 million was paid into the executive bonus fund.
Ford's profit follows General Motors Corp.'s announcement of a record $7.7 billion profit for 1985 Chrysler Corp. and American Motors
The profit surpasses the old annual profit mark of $1.67 billion, set in 1977.
Angolan rebels say they downed jet
LISBON, Portugal — The main guerrilla group fighting Angola's Marxist government said yesterday that it shot down a Boeing 737 jet last week, killing 100 Cuban and Angolan soldiers aboard.
Angola nut said that a TAAG Boeing 737 jettel suffered extensive damage during a forced landing Thursday minutes after takeoff in the central city of Huambo, but that all 135 people aboard escaped unharmed.
The official Angolan ANGOP news agency said an that inquiry had been ordered but gave no indication that the plane had been a target of
A statement released in Lisbon yesterday by South African-backed rebels claimed that the plane was "downed" on takeoff for Luanda, 300 miles northwest.
Former 'bubble boy' said to be better
HOUSTON — David, the immune-deficient, former "bubble boy," developed intestinal bleeding five days after illness forced him from his relatively germ-free environment, but the bleeding was interpreted as a sign of improving health, his physician said yesterday.
The physician, William T. Shearer, said the bleeding, which started Sunday, confirmed that bone marrow cells were alive nearly four months after they taken from David's 15-year-old sister, Katherine, and injected into David's bloodstream.
David suffers from severe combined immune deficiency, a defect that robs his body of disease-fighting mechanisms.
Palace savs Princess Di is pregnant
LONDON — Princess Diana is expecting her second child in mid-September, Buckingham Palace said yesterday in an announcement that eclipsed reports of the new Soviet leader in British newspapers.
Palace officials said, "Both Prince Charles and Princess Diana are delighted by the news—as are the queen, Prince Philip and all the members of both families."
Betting agents immediately offered odds on the baby's sex and gave an edge to the possibility of a baby girl. One betting agency accepted bets at 10-11 on a girl, even money on a boy, 25-1 against twins.
British media made Diana's pregnancy the day's top news, pushing the choice of Konstantin Chernenko as new leader of the Soviet Union into second place.
WEATHER FACTS
Today the weather will be fair except for some rain on both coasts. Locally, the weather will be partly mild with a high in the lower water and to the upper Weather Services station.
10% according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the low- to mid-30s.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance for rain and a high in the 50s.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the low- to mid-30s.
Soviets prepare for a somber ceremony
MOSCOW — Soviet soldiers and police stood guard yesterday outside sealed-off Red Square as workers completed final preparations for the funeral today of President Yuri Andropov.
By United Press International
IF TRADITION HOLDS, Cherenko will lead the Politburo members to the top of the red granite and marble mausoleum to eulogize the late president and general secretary of the Communist Party.
Andropov's open casket, escorted by the new Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko and members of the Poliburo, will be taken from the House of Unions and — by tradition — placed atop a carriage drawn by an opened car.
The somber procession will cross Revolution Square a half-block away
The casket will be carried to the tiny cemetery behind Lenin's tomb with the 12-member Politburo acting as pall-bearers.
and march past the Lenin Historical Museum into Red Square.
Hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries, including Vice President George Bush, will be in the reviewing stands on either side of Lenin's tomb. Rows of flowers have been placed along the Kremlin wall behind the stands.
"During the moment of burying the body of Vuri Yildirimovich Andropov, gun volleys will be fired in Moscow and Kharkiv," a government decree ordered.
ANDROPOV'S COFFIN will be sealed and carried behind the mausoleum and laid to rest in a tiny plot reserved for the most exalted heroes of
"At the same time, the work of all enterprises and organizations over the entire territory of the Soviet Union will be interrupted for five minutes," it
Bush, head of the U.S. delegation to Androtope's funeral, said that he came in a suit with his arm behind him.
regard for the people of the Soviet Union and to signify the desire of the United States to continue to work on relations between our two countries."
"THE DESIRE FOR PEACE and good relations that President Reagan and I have enunciated will survive us as they have Chairman Andropov," Bush said in an arrival statement. "And they will, I pray, bring us and those after us together in common purpose with the Soviet leadershin."
Bush was expected to meet today, after Andropov's funeral, with Chernykh the 72-year-old Politburo member elected to be the new Communist Party chief
FTC lets Texaco acquire Getty stock in merger
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission tentatively approved yesterday the biggest corporate merger in history, involving $10.1 billion takeover of Getty Oil Co.
ry a 4- vote, the FTC cleared the way for Texaco to acquire Gettick stock by conditionally accepting a consent agreement resulting potential antitrust problems.
The FTC's tentative approval of the agreement will be subject to a 60-day public comment period. In nearly all cases, there is final approval to consent agreements.
Timothy Muris, director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, said he thought
the commission had addressed every antitrust concern by requiring certain divestitures and specific operating conditions.
BUT FTC COMMISSIONER Michael Pertschuk, who cast the lone dissenting vote, predicted the acquisition would damage competition and increase consumer prices.
"I think this is part of a pattern of lax antitrust enforcement by this administration," Pertschuk said. "Under any other recent administration, Republican or Democrat, this merger would have been challenged" in court.
Under the proposed agreement, reached Friday between the FTC and the oil giant, Texaco Inc. would divest Getty assets that total several hundred
TEXACO ALSO announced it had completed the purchase of about 9.3 million common shares of Getty that had been owned by the J. Paul Getty Museum, named for the late oil tycoon and founder of Getty Oil
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Together, these transactions gave Texaco at 56 percent of Getty's 79.1%.
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