Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 22, 1989
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Economy grows 2.5% in 2nd quarter of 1989
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The economy grew at a 2.5 percent pace in the second quarter, down somewhat from the first quarter but strong enough to stop any new predictions of imminent recession, the government said yesterday.
The Commerce Department reported that April-June growth in the gross national product compared with a 3.7 percent gain in the first three months. The second-quarter GNP had been revised downward 0.2 percentage point from the 2.7 percent growth estimate a month ago.
Nearly two-thirds of the January-March strength came from an anticipated rebound in farm output, growth actually was only 1.2 percent.
The Federal Reserve has moved for more than a year to achieve a "soft-landing" by dampening inflation by slowing the economy without driving it into a recession.
GNP growth Change in Gross National Product from previous quarter, seasonally adjusted.
The Fed, which influences the economy by controlling monetary growth, "will not be influenced by this report" to reduce interest rates further at this time, said Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boost Co. "In fact, had it known in June that
Ahead of Economic Analysis Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Percent change 1989-II
Personal spending +0.5%
Private domestic invest. -0.2%
Gov't purchases +1.3%
Gross Domestic Product +2.9%
SOURCE: Bureau of Economic Statistics
the economy would have risen this much, it probably would not have reduced interest rates then."
Housing, adversely affected by high interest rates, fell 12.3 percent
The various changes left the GNP expanding in the second quarter.
Flag-burning debate unfurls in Senate
The Associated Press
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., argued that the proposed amendment and statute should both get favorable recommendations.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee sent rival measures on flag-burning to the Senate floor yesterday, approving a Democratic bill but also sending along the constitutional amendment favored by President Bush with an unfavorable recommendation.
The committee voted 9-5 to approve a proposed statute, sponsored by Biden, that would outlaw flag desecration and voted 8-6 to report the proposed amendment to the full Senate with an unfavorable recommendation.
MINTEEN YOUTHIS DROWN: A bus crowded with youngsters on their way to school yesterday plunged more than 40 feet into a water-filled pit after being struck by a delivery truck near Allon, Texas. Nineteen students were killed and 65 other people were sent to hospitals. At least one student was believed missing.
Dazed students scrambled out of the submerged bus and stood on it, screaming for help. Rescuers dove in 12 feet of water to pull survivors and the dead trapped in the bus.
Passers-by pulled youngsters out of the bus, as notebooks and school boats floated on the water. Four boats, firefighters from six departments and about 10 divers helped in the rescue.
The driver had picked up his last student en route to nearby Mission High School when the bus collided with a soft-drink truck about 7:40 a.m. at an intersection just east of Alton, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Leon said the truck driver ran a stop sign and struck the bus, sending it off the road about 20 feet and into the gravel pit. The truck remained alongside the road.
VIETNAMESE EXIT COUNTRY: Cambodians showered Vietnamese soldiers with flowers yesterday as they began their final withdrawal from a war that started with a Christmas invasion 11 years ago and ended the bloody rule of the Khmer Rouge.
The Vietnamese-installed government said it would carry on the fight against a three-party guerrilla coalition.
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war that erupted after it invaded to oust its former Communist comrade, the Khmer Rouge.
Vietnamese officials said 26,000 troops from Siem Reap and other areas will cross the border into southern Vietnam by Tuesday, ending Hanoi's involvement in the
CROWE AGAINST ASSAULT WEAPONS: Adm. William Crowe Jr., retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called yesterday for an end to sales of assault weapons and also said the nation "might consider doing unusual things with the military" to win the war against drugs.
'If we want to fight it, and we want to whip it, we want to prevent it would suggest that it does require unusual measures,' Crowe said.
President Bush has banned imported assault weapons but has allowed sales of U.S.-made versions to continue.
IMMUNITY AND AIDS: An immune system desperately batting the AIDS virus may actually hasten its own death by disabling cells in the body's army of disease fighters, a researcher said yesterday.
Dr. Michael K. Hoffman of the Sloan-Kettering Institute said that experiments in his laboratory showed that an antibody made by the immune system helps disable key cells in the body's defensive system, thus contributing to the immune deficiency that kills AIDS victims.
CHAMORRO AID REQUESTED
CHAMORO AID REQUESTED The Bush administration formally asked Congress yesterday for $9 million to help the election campaign of Nicaragua opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro, declaring, "We are at a watershed in Nicaragua."
efforts and party-building. NED, a private foundation created by Congress in 1982 to support democratic elections worldwide, has undertaken similar efforts in Poland, the Philippines, Panama and Chile.
The aid package would transfer $5 million to the National Endowment for Democracy for activities like election monitoring, voter registration, get-out-the vote
Another $4 million would be left "flexible," the administration said, but could go for election monitoring by groups like Carter's and the United Nations, civic education and get-out-the-vote campaigns, help in registering Nicaragua expatriates to vote and to pay necessary "taxes" to Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council.
JOURNEY TO MARS: It's official. U.S. and Soviet spacemen are going to Mars, and the Martians can't wait to greet them.
That's Mars, Pa. 16046. U.S.A. Earth.
Soviet Consonaut Sergei Krikalev will arrive in Mars on Monday, by jelirner and car, for an eight-day visit to this community of about 1,600 humanoids about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Krikalev, 31, a flight engineer, spent five months on a Soviet-French Soyuz mission that ended in April. He will be joined Wednesday by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mario Runco Jr., 37, a NASA astronaut who is awaiting assignment to a space shuttle flight.
TEACHING CONCERNS:
Teachers believe reform is improving their schools, but many see worsening drug, alcohol and absenteeism problems among their students, according to a poll released yesterday.
The spaceman's mission is to teach Martian children about space and Soviet-American friendship.
Despite such problems, four out of five public school teachers surveyed said they still "love to teach."
Bush, Baker open meeting with U.S.S.R
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush met with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday, opening three days of talks likely to spur chemical and nuclear weapons cutbacks and raise the possibility of abolishing restrictions on diplomatic ties.
The high-level meetings began with a White House session attended by Bush, Shevardnadze and Secretary of State James Baker. The discussions between Baker and Shevardnadze will continue today and tomorrow at a retreat near Jackson Hole, Wyo.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said that the two officials would try to set a summit between Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, but that there was no way of knowing whether a date would be set.
Shevardnadze refused to tell reporters about the letter he brought to Bush from Gorbachev. "It's a big letter," the foreign minister said.
Sources said that the administration planned to propose lifting virtually all restrictions on travel by diplomats, trade representatives and journalists in both countries.
About 90 percent of the Soviet Union is off limits to U.S. citizens. The United States has responded by imposing sanctions on a large part of the United States.
Baker's meetings with Shevardnadze are expected to produce progress in a broad range of subjects, including chemical weapons, nuclear arms, conventional arms, nuclear testing and human rights.
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