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University Daily Kansan, August 30, 1983
U.S. trade deficit grows to $6.36 billion in July
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - The nation's merchandise trade deficit grew to $6.38 billion in July, the third worst monthly increase since 2014. Commerce Department said yesterday.
Total exports earned $16.6 billion in July, down 2.2 percent from June, while imports cost Americans $22.9 billion, up 4.7 percent. The June Value was $4.96 billion.
The deficit for the first seven months of 1983 reached $39.96 billion, compared to $19 billion for the same period last year.
David Lund, department trade economist, said it was "in the range" expected and 1983 might end with as much as $7 billion in red ink.
The present record deficit was last year's $42.7 billion. The worst monthly figures were recorded in May, $6.9 billion, and in August 1982, $6.5 billion.
"Clearly the dominant factor for the month (July) is the continuing growth of the economy." Lund said, referring to how the economic recovery is
stimulating the American appetite for foreign-made goods. ^1 record $17.6 billion was spent for imported goods other than oil in July.
The United States imported $647.9 million in iron and steel mill products in July, $158.9 million more than was on overseas steel the month before.
The total non-oil imports went up 3.6 percent in July while the value of oil products rose about 10.4 percent.
The nation imported 5.5 million barrels per day in July, up from the 5.2 million daily average in June. The average price per barrel was $28.93, slightly higher than the $28.83 per barrel cost in June.
The deficit in trade with the countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was $804 million in July.
Earlier this summer the government reported the balance of payments was $3.05 billion in the red in the first quarter, the worst first quarter in five years.
KU SWORD AND SHIELD will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Cork II of the Kansas Union
years.
The surplus in the trade of food slipped only $22 million from the June level to $1.57 billion.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY Young Americans for Freedom will meet at 7 p.m. in the Oread Room of the Union.
THE KU CREW IS recruiting novice men and women rowers. Practice is 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. for women and 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for men. Anyone interested in joining the crew can stop by the gate or step by practice this week in Burcham Park, Second & Indiana streets.
THE ASSOCIATION FOR Computing Machinery will have a general organizational meeting at 4 p.m. in 303 Bailey Hall.
THE PUBLIC RELATIONS Student Society of America will have its first meeting of the school year at 6:30 p.m. in the Pine Room at the
STUDENTS INTERESTED in singing with the Colegium Musicum should call 864-3391. Rehearsals are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:30 p.m.
THE TAU SIGMA STUDENT Dance Club will meet at 7 p.m. at Robinson Center in studio 242.
TOMORROW
TOWARDS THE SUA SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlors A, B & C of the Union.
THOMAS M. MESSER, director of the Guggenheim Museum, will give a speech, "Collecting Modern Art at the Guggenheim," and Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread, will feature David Longhurst, mayor of Lawrence, and Stephen Grabow, professor of architecture and urban planning on "Alternatives in Downtown Redevelopment" at 11:45 a.m.
THE ECUENICAL CHRISTIAN
Ministries Center will have a
contemplative prayer time from
7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Everyone is
ready.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE of Chemical Engineers will have an organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. in 2009 Learned.
Agent Orange, illnesses not related, study says
WASHINGTON — A major study shows 85,000 Vietnam veterans examined for possible exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange, which contains dioxin, have not yet shown unusually high rates of illness, a government scientist disclosed yesterday.
The study, to be released today by the Veterans Administration, will report that the veterans have experienced "a wide variety of health problems," but also "the need for longer growing older," said Alvin Young of the VA's Agent Orange Projects Office.
"Nothing stands out as dioxin-caused," he said.
But, he warned, "we aren't saying there isn't an Agent Orange effect," because veterans tested at 125 VA hospital were exposed to the herbicide 10 to 15 years ago.
"That may not be long enough for certain kinds of cancers to develop," he
Speaking to reporters at the American Chemical Society's national conference in Chicago, Dr. Hirschberg
Housing sales slump in July despite cut in building prices
caution in interpreting the statistics because it was not certain whether more than 25 percent of the 85,000 exposed to the chemical
Young and four other scientists who talked to reporters said they were anxiously awaiting final results of a separate study, due Oct. 3, on Air Force personnel exposed extensive exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam between 1962 and 1971.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sales of new houses slumped 6.5 percent in July, even though builders cut their prices to an average $88,100 per home, the Commerce Department said yesterday.
The average price tag for a new house was $2,600 less than in June. It was the first such price decline since March, when the average slipped $400.
ahead of their depressed level of a year ago.
Sales were down in every region of the country, the department said, to a rate of 620,000 houses a year, the lowest since March.
By the end of July, there were enough houses left un sold to last 5.7 months, the department said. That is the biggest leftover supply since December.
Sales fell 13.9 percent in Western states and 3.3 percent in Southern states, the two areas of the country that have been supporting the housing sales
Despite the sharp decline in sales in July and the revised 0.3 percent drop in June, house sales were still 70.3 percent
Sales fell 7.5 percent in Northeastern states and were off 6.4 percent in Northcentral states, the department said.
Another measure of house prices that excludes price range extremes, the median price, also fell in July to $75,000 from June's $76,100.
A British scientist who participated in the chemical society discussion, Alastair Hay of the University of Leeds, said he visited Vietnam in January and met patients unhappy undesirable damage still evident in the detained jungle areas.
The median price for all of 1982 was $70,900.
Agent Orange was used by U.S. military forces to deflate the jungles to deny hide-outs for the Viet Cong. Veterans are seeking millions of dollars in compensation for the chemical's having caused cancer and liver, kidney, skin, nerve and other health problems
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