Page 2 University Daily Kansan, January 18, 1983 News Briefs From United Press International Rate of idle factory space highest since World War II WASHINGTON — The manufacturing pulse of the nation slowed last month to its most feeble rate since World War II, with nearly a third of factory capacity idle, the Federal Reserve Board said yesterday. The drop in the operating rate was only 0.1 percent, suggesting that factories could stagnate at the current low level for a while or possibly The Fed's bench mark measure showed a new postwar low of 67.3 percent of factory capacity in use in December. The auto industry showed some improvement, but the improvement was hardly robust, increasing to an operating rate of 52.3 percent from November's revised 48.9 percent. The iron and steel industry grew sweeter, with a rate that dropped to 39.1 percent from November's 39.1 percent. Producers of raw steel drew deeper. Only during parts of 1949 and 1959 when plants were shut down by steel strikes have the current recession depths in the steel industry been exceeded, Fed analysts said. Gromvko sends warning to NATO BONN, West Germany — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko yesterday warned of a "years-long nuclear confrontation" unless NATO abandoned plans to deploy medium-range missiles in Europe. Gromyko warned NATO after West German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher told him Bonn would stand firm in supporting Gromyko said the Soviets would deploy more rockets aimed at Western Europe unless NATO rescinded its 1979 decision to deploy American cruise and Pershing II missiles in Europe in the fall. Bishops to urge caution on weapons VATICAN CITY — European Roman Catholic bishops will urge American churchmen to "talk peace with a strong stick" in drafting a proposal on nuclear weapons, a church source said yesterday. "The European bishops are going to say 'be cautious and cool it. You can fight for a just, moral stand on nuclear disarmament and deterrence but nations have to be defended and people have to live.'"3 "The United Nations is the religious order who has been following the disarmament issue in Europe." A special two-day meeting of European bishops and members of the U.S. Bishops Conference, including Chicago Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, chairman of the committee drafting a pastoral letter on the nuclear issue, begins at the Vatican today. Nader criticizes U.S. Postal Service WASHINGTON — Threatened by the electronic age, a disinterested Congress and private competition, the U.S. Postal Service could "self-destruct" in 20 years, consumer advocate Ralph Nader said yesterday. "Private citizens must form a national consumer action group to force accountability on the service," he said at a news conference at the University of Oklahoma. Kathleen Conkey, who prepared the study for Nader, said the 1970 Postal Reorganization Act "was a serious mistake." Under the reorganization, the Postal Service in an attempt to end federal subsidies by 1984, tries to run postal services on profits from 1984. Nader predicted trouble unless Congress took more responsibility for overseeing the agency and subsidizing its services. "The trend in the U.S. Postal Service as we see it is toward self-destruction," he said. Bronx armored-car service closes NEW YORK — Sentry Armored Car Courier Service — hit by two recent thefts, one a record $11.5 million robbery — yesterday stopped doing business and laid off its employees, officials said. "As of tonight, it's an empty building," said a man who answered the phone at the Bronx firm. "This afternoon, everything came to a halt," said the man, who identified himself as a Sentry worker but refused to give his name. Police removed about 180 guns from the firm's premises yesterday afternoon, a spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Mario Meroa said. The company's demise came as its three top officials were to appear in Criminal Court in the Bronx today to face charges they looked a Britain to invest in American plant LONDON — The British government said yesterday that it was joining forces with the American electronics giant Westinghouse to invest $15.9 million in an American robot manufacturing plant. Through British Technology Group and the Department of Industry, the government is putting up $5.66 million to boost the company — **Citizen (Europe)** — with Westinghouse contributing the remainder. Some of the funds will go into developing a new "energy-efficient" robot. Uimation, based at Telford in Shropshire, has been in business in Britain since 1970 building robot equipment for various manufacturers. Engelbergier. Between 250 and 300 new jobs would be created immediately, with the possibility of more if the venture was successful. Two demand soup kitchen in strike WESTPORT, Conn. — Two men demanding their affluent community open a soup kitchen for the area's homeless entered the second day of a hunger strike yesterday, vowing not to eat until town officials help feed the poor. "I'm a little hungry but I'm OK," said Matthew Vittucci, 32. Vittucci and John Roorbach, 36, gave up solid food at 6:30 a.m. Sunday in Sauagut Congregational Church, vowing to live only on water, herbal teas and glasses of fruit juice until a soup kitchen was established. They demanded a soup kitchen be opened immediately within a 10-minute walk of downtown for several dozen homeless people, some runaways, who range in age from 17 to 60. The town is home to numerous authors and actors, including Paul Newman. The average income is $40,000 and the average house sells for about $160,000. Correction Because of a reporting error, the date for the 1983 KU Exploration Day was listed incorrectly in yesterday's Kansan as April 20. The correct date is April 22. Foreign debts dominate IMF conference Senior representatives of the International Monetary Fund's "Group of 10" had a day of private talks that paved the way for today's meeting of their finance ministers. Today's meeting is aimed at trying to coordinate a strategy that would stimulate world economic growth. PARIS - Top financial officials from the 10 richest industrialized nations met yesterday to coordinate efforts on a global plan of dealing with mounting foreign debts. By United Press International ing debts, estimated at $700 billion in Third World and Soviet bloc nations alone. Western nations such as France and Germany also have massive debts and have requested loans. Expensive bailouts, notably in Mexico and Brazil, have added to the urgency. An increasing number of countries, including Brazil, Romania and Zaire, have said they would have to reschedule loan repayments. THE IMF HAS sped the discussions because of member countries' mount- European members of the Group of 10, led by French Finance Minister Jacques Delors, the group's chairman, have lobbed for a hefty increase in the contribution each member nation must make to the resources of the IMF The European view supports an THE UNITED STATES resisted the proposal calling for up to 50 percent hikes in national quotas. U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said he preferred a more moderate increase of the fund, closer to 29 percent, in line with American policy favoring restraint. expansionist policy that would stimulate international trade, discourage protectionist barriers between countries and check unemployment. The Group of 10, however, is likely to prefer a quota increase of at least 40 percent in the IMF fund from the present $66.5 billion. Group of 10 policy adopted this week will be crucial to shaping the decisions New Soviet missiles aid Syria By United Press International The sources said the action marked the first time the Soviets have exploited the SAM-5, a 10-year-old missile with a range of 185 miles. The sources expect the Soviets to send as many as 25 of the helicopters from Grimlin's chief client in the Arab world. some equipment, including missile canisters and vehicles to haul them, and other materials. SYRIA HAS prepared sites for the missiles in Damascus and in the western city of Homs. Sources said WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union for the first time has sent long-range anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, making it riskier for Israeli war planes to conduct operations over Lebanon, U.S. intelligence sources said yesterday. The sources said the Soviets would be able to reap political capital at low costs from their introduction of SAM-5 missiles into Syria because it would show the West and Moscow's allies the threat of Mandatory Syrian after its war with Israel. DELEGATES AT this week's meetings also will likely agree to increase the resources of the Group of 10, which includes the General Agreements to Borrow "The Soviets can make a statement by exploiting a technology they've never exploited before, even if it's older technology," one source said. at a meeting next month in Washington of the 146-member IMF's policy its positions in Syria - endangering the operations of Israel reconnaissance and command post aircraft jammed with electronic gear. 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