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University Daily Kansan, October 22, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Slumping GNP increases speculation about recession
WASHINGTON—The government reported yesterday the gross national income of the state decreased by 8.2 percent over how well the president's recession diagnosis described the economy.
The growth in market value of all the nation's goods and services to $2,947 billion - $2.9 trillion - was turned into the second consecutive quarterly decline after adjustment for the shrinking dollar, the Commerce Department reported.
Economists generally say a 4 percent production increase is necessary to shrink the unemployment rate. All figures were seasonally adjusted annual
A half percent decline in final sales was largely responsible for the production slump, especially weakened exports, housing investment and unemployment.
Malcolm Baldridge, commerce secretary, told reporters that, like the president, he thought the country was in a "light recession" but added, "I think we're batting words around" when the term was used before "a more formal determination of the facts."
"No one likes recessions," he said, "but a slight recession, I think, is perhaps almost necessary right now."
The president was elected to cure inflation, he said, and that take a tight money policy.
Palestinian autonomy talks begin
TEL AIVA, Israel-Egyptian, Israeli and American technical experts met yesterday for a nine-day round of Palestinian autonomy talks, the first since the nuclear agreement was reached.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin, at a meeting of Parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, was optimistic the talks would conclude and that Israel would be safer.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has taken pains to assure Israel of his commitment to the peace process begun by his predecessor, was hopeful that the Palestinians would join the negotiations, but so far they have rejected participation.
The negotiating teams were charged with trying to agree on the principles of autonomy for the 1.2 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip "as a phase toward final agreement," said Haim Kobersky, Israel's head delegate at the talks.
Reagan vows flexibility at summit
CANCU, Mexico - Leaders of 22 nations gathered in the Yucatan resort of Cancun yesterday for two days of talks on fighting world poverty. An initial meeting between President Reagan and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo produced "clear optimism."
- Secretary of State Alexander Haig said after a 35-minute airport meeting between Reagan and Lopez Portillo that "the bottom line of the meeting is that there is clear optimism on the part of both leaders with regard to the outcome" of the summit.
Reagan, who single-handedly could determine the course of the summit, vowed upon his arrival to stand by his policies "with flexibility," officials said, which Mexico saw as a good sign for the success of the two-day meeting.
Mindful of the recent attempt to assassinate Reagan, Mexico turned the picture-pcard island resort into a fortress so strong that officials later
Reagan wore a bullet-proof vest under his suit upon his arrival but later changed into a sport shirt and slacks.
NATO pledges to deploy missiles
GLENEAGLES, Scotland—NATO's defense ministers unanimously renewed their pledge yesterday to deploy modernized nuclear weapons in Europe, citing the "wide and growing disparity" in firepower favoring the Soviet Union.
But the 13 ministers, including Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, made no mention of Western Europe's burgeoning pacifist movement in their final communique after two days of high-level talks that included discussions on that very subject.
In their six-page, 11-point communique, the ministers emphasized that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would continue to move ahead with the alliance's December 1979 decision to install 572 cruisers and Pershing missiles targeted at the Soviet Union starting in 1983.
Weinberger told a news conference he was "delighted with the way the men out" and said he was "particularly pleased with the degree of unanimity."
Senate moves to reprimand Libya
WASHINGTON—The Senate yesterday turned back an attempt to ban all U.S. imports from Libya, worth $4 billion a year, condemn Libyan leaders to prosecution.
Instead, it approved 47-44 a non-binding amendment that would condemn Libyan policies and ask the president to conduct "an immediate review of concrete steps" the United States could take against Libya, including stopping the oil imports.
Sen. Gary Hart, D-Ind., said the amendment he and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., offered was "designed to end the support the United States is providing for Libyan terrorism and its mischievous leader, Moammar Khadafy."
"U.S. purchases of Libyan oil are subsidizing an international campaign of destabilization and terrorism," Hart said. He said the United States received only 5 percent of its foreign oil from Libya, but this amounted to 48 percent of Libyan oil exports.
Byrd opposes AWACS planes sale
WASHINGTON-Senate Democraticocratic leader Robert Byrd announced yesterday he would oppose the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia, dealing a serious setback to President Reagan's hopes the deal will survive in the Senate.
"I do not believe this sale serves the best interest of the United States," said Byrd, who has long been undecided on the issue. "Guilt the contrary, I agree."
"In my estimation, if the AWACs sale were to proceed at this time, the Jordanians would lose the Israelis who lost the Egyptians who lose the Jordanians would lose
Byrd made his announcement in a Senate speech soon after Reagan left the country, Mexico, to attend a North-South summit meeting which he is scheduled for.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes called Byrd's opposition "not unexpected." He said pro-AWACS forces were gaining ground in the Senate, and "we remain optimistic that we have the sufficient votes" to stave off disapproval.
'60s radical arrested after holdup
NVACK, N.Y. --The capture of longtime radical fugitive Kathy Boudin and three other suspects in a $1.6 million Brinks helped police to a New Jersey bomb factory where diagrams of six New York police precincts were found, authorities said yesterday.
Bouldin, a, member of the Weather Underground who had eluded the FBI for a decade, was arrested Tuesday night after a terrorist-strike attack a Brinks car outside a Namet, N.Y., shopping hall and a subway station. Two police officers and two policemen were killed and other two were wounded.
FBI and police officials told a news conference yesterday the arrests led to a raid on an apartment in East Orange, N.J., that contained diagrams of six firearms.
They called the apartment a "bomb factory" and said a white Oldsmobile used in the holdup was traced to the residence.
Crawling critters bug Stouffer residents
By JANICE GUNN Staff Reporter
The extermination service at Stouffler Place apartments bugs several of the tenants who continue to be bothered by peeky insects.
Tenants have complained recently that no matter how many times they have their apartments sprayed, the pests—cockroaches, termites and spiders—will come back within a month.
The extermination policy at Stouffer Place, according to J. J. Wilson, directs of housing department to a tenant sprayed or her or her sprayed to have it done every week.
But a single spraying may not kill all of the insects in an apartment, but it may kill only a few.
"The bugs go through the walls."
John Laskavitz, Meridith, N.H.
senior and Stouffer resident, said.
"They only one apartment, they run to the next."
Stouffer Neighborhood Association members suggested at previous meeting a plan for a new building.
"I'm not sure I buy that theory, but if the want, will we spray the whole complex into it?"
apartments needed to be sprayed at once if the bugs were to be killed.
According to George Byers, professor of entomology, when the infested apartments are adjoining, the bugs will move in unless the whole building is sprayed.
"If one person tries to control them in his apartment, it is almost useless because they can crawl along the water up a wall or into the next apartment." Bye said.
"They ought to go in there and do the whole place at once."
"One resident, Kathleen DeWiflaree, said that her apartment had termites and that when the weather got worse two months ago, more came into her bedrooms.
"On the bedroom curtains there were thick piles of them about the size of a half dollar," she said.
She requested that her apartment be sprayed, she said, but the exterminator never came.
Finally, she and her husband sprayed a commercial repellent inside their
bedrooms and outside around the windows.
results. Some residents doubted they could get everybody to cooperate on a one-time spraying of each 12-unit building.
But some bugs have come back
But some bumps have come back. Other residents agree that all of the apartments should be sprayed at once, but they say it is a matter of timing.
The residents have to clear out their cupboards and closets in order for the exterminator, Lawrence Termite and Pest Control Co., to have the best
Mary Fletcher, who co-menages Stouffer Place, said that the chemicals used by the pest control services were not harmful to children if the tenant allowed the chemicals to completely dry before returning to the apartment.
UN speaker to discuss hunger
"The World's Hungry Can Be Fed" will be the subject of a speech and panel discussion at 7:30 tonight in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
Don Kimmel, director of the North American liaison office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, will be the main speaker. He has worked with the United Nations for 22 years and has his doctorate in agricultural economics.
teers. It should inform people and promote thinking on the problem of world hunger," according to El Stene, president of the Douglas County chapter of the United Nations, which is sponsoring the event.
"The discussion will give people a chance to hear about the work the U.N. is doing through its local government agencies, churches and local volun-
Other panel members include: Roy Laird, professor of political science, specializing in Soviet agriculture and world hunger; Lawrence Moore, a U.N. technical consultant in Lawrence; Joseph Brenner, director of international business; and Elvin Frantz, Kansas director for Churchworld service/CROP.
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