University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 31, 1988
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Economic factors post slight decline for July
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The federal government said yesterday that its chief forecasting gauge of future economic activity suffered the steepest drop in eight months in July, but few anomalies or slackening in growth anytime soon.
The 0.8 percent decline in the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators was the biggest since last November, when the index dropped 1 percent in the October stock crash.
However, economists noted that the index posted an exceptionally strong increase in June and cautioned against reading too much into it.
a one-month downturn.
In a separate report, the Commerce Department said orders to U.S. factories for manufactured goods dropped 3.5 percent in July, the worst decline in 18 months. But heavily influenced in June and was heavily influenced by a wide swing in orders for military equipment.
Pinochet sole nominee for Chilean office
White House spokesman B. Jay Cooper, in California with the vacation President Reagan, said, "The data suggest continued economic growth," and that he would rather attend at a more moderate pace than in the first half" of the year.
The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile — The country's four military commanders picked President Augusto Pinchez yesterday at a meeting of his presidential referendum in October.
Rap-Ind-Pinoche demonstrations raged in Santiago and several cities, and do arrests were reported in many places. Police running street battles with police.
At 8 p.m., windows opened
and residents
banged pots and panes
displeasure with the nomination.
The show of defiance was organized
by the group.
Pinchot, who commands the army and took part in the selection process, was widely expected to be non-military, but fellow members of the military junta.
Pinochet announced that the referendum will be held Oct 5.
If voters approve Pinochet, the *term* will run until 1997. If the voters reject him, open elections are to be made. If voters approve Pinochet will remain president until then.
"This is a decisive moment in the institutional process begin Sept. 11, 1973." Pinochet said in his acceptance speech.
Pinochet teld the bloody coup in September 1733 that ousted the government of Marxist President Salvador Allende, who died in the palace takeover. Pinochet has been presi- dent the military government since then.
Pinochet was nominated by himself, navy chief Adm. Jose Merino, air force leader Gen. Fernando Garcia, and military commander Gen. Rodrigo Stange in a one-hour
45-minute nomination session in the Defense Ministry.
Pinochet later appeared on a balcony of the government palace and addressed about 10,000 cheering supporters.
He said his years of rule have been dedicated to forging a Chinese society in which a new type of democracy, communism, will be established.
"The full democracy that approaches constitutes a new challenge for everyone," he said. "It also will demand us all overcoming, adapting and rectifying to create a model of political coexistence," he said.
Opposition politicians immediately denounced the selection.
"The nomination of Gen. Pinochet,
with his own vote, as candidate to
succeed himself, is the best denial of
the supposed democratic intentions of the regime," the centrist Democratic Party said in a written statement.
Pinochet's nomination was announced by air force Gen. Enrique Montero, secretary for the nominating session.
He said the commanders designated Pinochet "the person who, with his own power, will be the position of president of the republic for the (eight-year) presidential term."
There were anti-government demonstrations in downtown Santiago and also in Concepción and Osorno in and in the central port city of Vallarta.
More than a 1,000 years marched down through downtown Santiago and riot police sent them fleeing with tear gas and water cannons.
Brezhnev's son-in-law faces possibility of death sentence
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The son-in-law of L. Brezhnay leaded Leonid I. Brezhnev could be sentenced to death if convicted next week of giving and distributing thousands of rubles in bribes, a government spokesman said yesterday.
The trial of Yuri Charbianov and eight other government officials charged with trying to expect to last up to two months, Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen. Boris Berezovsky
The group will be tried before the military collegium of the Supreme
Court. Two-hundred witnesses are scheduled to testify, Gerasimov said.
The investigation of Churbanov and the others has become a sensation in the press. The press has taken advantage of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's letter to the United Nations report widespread corruption, nepotism and organized crime for more than a year. The reports usually center on Churbanov, who married Brezhnev's daughter, Galina, in 1971. In fact, both which he was allegedly involved
The Communist Party daily Pravda published a detailed report on the case yesterday.
News Roundup
WALSAE MEETS IN WARSAW: Solidarity founder Lech Wesla will help his first talk with the Polish leadership in six years today in Berlin and will speak on two weeks of labor turnover his advisers said.
TROOPS LEAVE ANGOLA! Fifty army vehicles carrying 1,000 soldiers rumbled into South-West Africa yesterday carrying the last South African troops in angola, where they spent more than half a million days at Maraistat guerrillas. The move was the first initiative of U.S.-mediated peaceful rescue action.
IRISH VIOLENCE CONTINUES: Soldiers from Northern Ireland fatally shot three armed men in a car yesterday. The shooting occurred a few miles from Omagh, Northern Ireland, where an Irish Republican Army bomb killed eight soldiers on a bus and injured 27 others.
SMOKELESS CIGARETTES INTRODUCED
Distributor of Cigarettes and Tuxon
to test market smartphone cigarette called Premier, which was developed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., company offi-
NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTED: A nuclear weapon was detonated yesterday at the Yucas Flat, Nev. test site, 13 days after Soviet scientists monitored another U.S. test at the same time and conducted no relations. Two Soviet scientists were still on site at the time of yesterday's blast but were not involved in monitoring the test. U.S. scientists will monitor a test in the United Union on Sept.
VILLAJERS ASSIST TROOPS: Lebanese villagers helped help Israeli troops and local militia drills during the war.
infiltrate Israel yesterday, the army and Israeli radio said. Two guerrillas were captured and killed.
CLIMATE ANALYSIS RELEASED! Even drastic cutbacks in the release of the chemicals blamed for causing the global "greenhouse effect" are under way. The planet, according to a new climate analysis
RAPSE SUSPECT INDICATED: A Columbus, Ohio man suspected in 60 rapes披ed innocent yesterday to a 21-st indictment charging him with raping and kidnapping five women and six children.
FOREST FIRES CONTINUE: A California brush fire destroyed at least five homes while crews fighting forest fires gained ground yesterday in Yellowstone National Park, and the Forest Service went to employment offices in the West in search of more firefighters.
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