University Daily Kansan. August 26. 1981
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Food, housing costs cause inflation to hit double digits
Inflation leaped back into double digits in July, increasing consumer prices at an annual rate of 15.2 percent with sharply higher food and housing costs, the government reported yesterday.
The pace was the fastest in more than a year, but Reagan administration officials said the higher prices had little significance, and a private insurance company has been slowing.
After adjustment for seasonal factors, the Consumer Price Index increased 1.2 percent for July, the biggest one-month jump since March 1980, the Labor Department said. A full year at that rate would compound to 15.2 percent.
The index reached 274.4 in July. That means goods and services that cost $100 in 1967, now cost approximately $274.
After May's Consumer Price Index showed less than a 10 percent increase for the third month, council chairman Murray Weidenbaum said, "Double-digit inflation . . . is behind us."
The rising prices meant an American paycheck did not go nearly as far as before, and the Labor Department's measure of spendable earnings after taxes was only up 2.1 percent.
Since June, grocery store prices increased 0.9 percent with the costs for beef, pork and fresh fruits leading the way. A pound of pork chops was up 12 cents for the month to $2.20 a pound, and the average cost of T-bone steak rose 21 cents to $4 a pound.
Housing costs increased 1.6 percent, mainly reflecting home financing costs, which were up 3.2 percent.
A White House spokesman said the consumer price increases had little significance.
the president's economic program is long term." he said. "We expect it to begin taking effect in the next several months. Then we will see some change."
Official: Begin. Sadat to resume talks
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin agreed to resume the Palestinian autonomy talks before the end of September, a senior Egyptian official said early today.
The official said the exact date of the talks, which have been deadlocked for more than a year, would be fixed in consultation with the United States
Egyptian Foreign Minister Gamal Hassan All was to call on U.S. Ambassador Alfred Atherton in Cairo Saturday to start consultations, the official said. He did not specify if the talks would be at the ministerial or a lower level.
The Egyptian official said he did not know what had happened at the two leaders' 11th summit conference to encourage Sadat to resume negotiations.
U.S. fighter planes sent to Israel
The Air Force also cleared the way for delivery of 14 F-16 Falcon fighter-borne lifting flight imagers in August. Of the fatal crashes of an F-16 Fighting Falcon, all Air Force Bases
WASHINGTON- U.S. Air Force crews flew three F-15 fighter Eagles to Israel yesterday, formally ending President Reagan's embargo on exporting warplanes to the Jewish state.
The F-15s, worth $25 million each, landed at an undisclosed Air Force base in Israel after a 13-hour flight. The F-16 aircraft still are awaiting safety clearance at two American Air Force bases, but the Pentagon said a few would leave for Israel this week.
The president had held up the planes because of Israel's raids using American-made aircraft on an iraqi nuclear reactor June 7, and on Pakistan's nuclear reactors.
In lifting the embargo, the administration did not address the question of whether Israel had violated its 185 arm agreement, which permits the use of weapons against civilians.
The administration said it wanted the planes dispute settled so it would not cloud discussions over Palestinian rights when Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin arrives in Washington Sept. 8.
Angola threatens to unleash troops
LUANDA, Angola -Angola charged yesterday that South African planes, troops and tanks were locked "in violent combat" with Angolan defenders deep inside the African country, and it threatened to mobilize its 20,000-man Cuba burglar to counter the invading force.
A spokesman for the South African defense headquarters in Windhoek, South-West Africa, remained silent on Angolan claims of a full-scale invasions.
Yesterday, the spokesman said, four South African soldiers were killed in heavy fighting along the Angola-South-West African border.
But the South African spokesman said the soldiers were killed while trying to destroy the Angolan bases of guerrillas belonging to the South-West Africa, said in South Africa, which administers South-West Africa, said it had been engaged in the guerrillas for control of the mineral-rich territory since the early 1980s.
The Angolan defense army claimed South African troops backed by squadrons of jeffrieshers and dozens of tanks, pushed 90 miles across the river.
The Angolan news agency Anagp said President Jose Eduardo Dos Santo a message to the United Nations, warning that the attack could ignite a "war" between the two countries.
Postal contract may raise postage
WASHINGTON - A new $4.8 billion contract covering the bulk of the nation's postal workers was approved by two major unions yesterday.
But to pay for the new pact, the U.S. Postal Service might increase the charge for sending first class mail to 20 cents.
Vincent Sombrotto, president of the 176,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers, said his union approved the contract by a 4x-1 margin. And Moe Biller, president of the American Post Workers Union, said his union would follow suit all ballots were counted.
The new contract would give workers an estimated 10.5 percent pay increase over their current annual salary of $19,195, with raises and bonuses of $2,100 over the next three years, plus cost-of-living adjustments. Workers also will get a $150-one-time bonus for restoring the contract within 45 days.
Postmaster General William Bolger said the increases could be paid for $12 a 20 cent rate for first class mail, a figure the Postal Service is now requesting. The independent Postal Rate Commission twice has rejected such a raise.
Both men denied that President Reagan's hard-line stand in the air traffic controllers' strike affected the outcome of yesterday's balloting. "Absolutely not," Biller said. "No effect whatsoever."
41 reported dead in El Salvador
SAN VALADOR, El Salvador—The bodies of 41 civilians were found yesterday in a sharp upswing of political killings in El Salvador, judicial officials said.
Most of the civilians had been shot to death and several showed signs of beating and torture, officials said. Another 23 people were reported killed Monday in political violence that has claimed more than 22,000 lives in 20 months.
Judicial authorities said the bodies of 20 of the civilians were found along a stretch of highway 22 miles southeast of the capital, in a part of the country where many of the victims died.
Meanwhile, 240 political prisoners declared an indefinite hunger strike yesterday to protect death threats against relatives, the Salvadoran Human Rights Organization said.
Voyager 2 continues after Saturn climax
PASADENA, Calif. -Climaxing a four-year journey, Journey V 2 sped toward the high point of its mission to Saturn yesterday, sending back eerie space music, pictures of battered and mishapen moons and revealing that famous rings are an extravagant necklace of thousands of ice strands.
By United Press International
under the command of its on-board computer, dived into a perfect course to make its closest approach at 10:24 p.m. CDT.
The spacecraft, gorging itself on information with television cameras swiveling and instruments clicking
"We have threaded this needle in space," exulted Esker K. Davis, the project manager, saying the craft would hit its target nearly a billion miles from earth, just 2.5 seconds ahead of schedule. An error of 20 seconds would have thrown the mission off its precise tinetread.
The nuclear-powered craft transmitted photos of the rings, which have fascinated astronomers for 371 years,
made of icy chunks circulating the planet. The rings appear to be formed of so many thousands of strands that the traditional picture of a half-dozen large rings and separate rings has "gone by" said Bradford Smith, a team leader.
Atlanta Press Club may appeal judge's ruling to bar cameras
coverage of the trial might do to
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By United Press International
Cooper also pointed to guidelines set by the state Supreme Court, stating that trials may be televised only when the judge is not in agreement. Williams' attorney opposes cameras in the courtroom during the trial, which is tentatively to begin Oct. 5.
ATLANTA-The Atlanta Press Club says it may appeal a judge's ruling barring cameras from the October trial of two girls who were injured in two of 28 skylings of young blacks.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Clarence Cooper ruled yesterday that the "potential harm" television
The pictures also revealed a huge hunter, about 60 miles wide, on the moor; the man is standing in a shallow pool.
The crater reminded scientists of the crater on the Mimas moon seen by voyager 1 last November. It covered about a third of the surface.
Voyager 2 also made recordings as it passed Saturn's bow shock, the point in space where the solar wind strikes the planet's magnetic field and flows around it.
There is no sound in space audible to human ears, but the recording was reconstructed from the spacecraft's music as a music synthesizer and tape recorder.
Speeded up to eight times its real speed, the tape sounded like the ringing of unearthly church bells—deep gongs mixed with higher peals rising and falling as the spacecraft moved through the landscape in immense insistent background note, like the ominous shark music from the movie, "Jaws."
Voyager 2 is sending back volumes of data, enough to keep researchers busy for years, leaving bermised scientists to ponder such mysteries such as the missing moonlets and the "hamburger moon."
They will have plenty of time. The Saturn sun is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's last planet, and its years to come, until NASA reaches 2 mochs. Neptune near the edge of the solar system in 1986 and 1989—if its radio holds out.
Voyager beamed back pictures Monday revealing that the moon *looks not only oddly shaped, but orbits in an unusual way, perhaps knocked as a skeleton.*
Measuring 220 miles long by 130 miles wide, it looked originally like a buttered bread roll.
The spacecraft found no sign of the "lost moonlets" researchers had theorized must exist within Saturn's rings, sweeping like cosmic snowblows through the gaps seen between the rings.
Pulled by Saturn's gravity, the spacecraft accelerates to 54.113 mph at its closest approach point, giving scientists their closest look at its bands of cold gas storms ripped by 1,100 mph winds.
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