University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 15, 1989
Nation/World
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Auto trade drives retail sales up.7%
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Retail sales rose a moderate 0.7 percent in August because of strong automobile sales, the government reported yesterday, but analysts foresee sluggishness for the remainder of the year.
The Commerce Department said sales increased to a seasonally adjusted $144.3 billion in August after a 0.5 percent gain in July. Sales had remained flat in June after rising 0.8 percent in May.
Analysts said the report was consistent with the so-called "soft-landing" scenario sought by the Federal Reserve as it moved to keep inflation under control while permitting continued, but slower, economic growth. At the White House, press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the August figure was "an indication of continued-blow growth in the current economic expansion."
Car sales, which represent about 20 percent of retail sales, advanced 2.6 percent last month, driven by end-of-model-year sales incentives and the threat of steep price increases for 1980 models. Those sales had risen 1.7 percent in July.
But Michael K. Evans of Evans Economics Inc., a Washington consulting firm, said, "Auto sales have peaked. They came in low (in early September). October will be way down. So total retail sales will be down."
Retail sales
Monthly percent change, adjusted for seasonal and trading-day differences.
-2.0% SO N D J F M A M J J A
Percent change Aug. 1989
Percent change
Auto dealers +2.6%
Furniture, furnishings +1.6%
Durable goods +2.4%
Non-durable goods -0.4%
LANDSLIDE IN NEPAL: A landslide killed 16 people in southwestern Nepal yesterday, the Nepalese national news agency RSS reported.
RSS said the landslide occurred in Bajheng district, 288 miles southwest of Katmandu. It swept away four houses and 25 head of cattle and blocked a small river
FREE SHOES TO DIABETICS: A government project to outfit selected diabetic Medicare recipients with $300 orthopedic shoes is being undertaken by who say those excluded could face a higher risk of foot amputations.
The demonstration project, which began last month, is selecting 27,000 diabetic Medicare patients in New York, California and Florida who have a high risk of hospitalization or amputation because of circulatory problems in
World Briefs
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Half of these patients will be reimbursed up to $306 by Medicare for a pair of therapeutic shoes or inserts.
their feet.
SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa's National Party leader F.W. de Klerk was elected yesterday to a five-year term as president and was criticized immediately by conservative opponents for allowing a protest that drew an estimated 20,000 people.
The government hopes to determine whether they would save money in the long run by providing shoes to such patients.
Police allowed two small protests to take place yesterday, even giving flowers to the leaders of one march. Anti-apartheid leaders announced plans for more activity.
The Electoral College, dominated by Parliament members of
the National Party, cast a unanimous vote for de Klerk, one day after the march in Cape Town.
In a rare move, the anti-apartheid Democratic Party voted with the Nationalists to defeat the Conservatives' motion.
Moolman Mentz, spokesman for the Conservative Party, the largest parliamentary opposition, said approval of the Cape Town march was "a knife thrust in the back" of security forces. Mentz called for immediate Parliamentary debate.
ORAL ROBERTS HOSPITAL! Officials closed the emergency room yesterday at evangelist Olal Roberts' City of New York hospital, marking that first step in the ministry's plans to close the hospital and a medical school to help pay $25 million in debts.
East Germans seek refuge in Poland as push West continues
Refugees also try leaving through Prague
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — East Germanans hoping to emigrate West have taken refuge in the West German Embassy in Warsaw, the Polish Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The government hopes to resolve the problem "in a few days," the agency reported.
The East Germans are following the course of thousands of their countrymen who crowded the West German Embassy in Hungary. They were allowed to go West after Hungary opened its western border.
Polish television reported Wednesday night that about 50 East Germans, who reportedly began arriving several weeks ago, were crowded in the Warsaw embassy.
Ministry spokesman Stefan Staniszewski confirmed yesterday that East Germans were in the embassy and did not know how many were there.
One 9-year-old boy interviewed on television said about 60 people were housed inside a large room. Laundry could be seen hanging in the embassy
yard, and the youngster said a hotel was providing food for the East Germans.
Several young men lounged and read in the embassy courtyard.
The official PAP news agency reported that talks between top representatives of the Polish and West German government opened in Warsaw yesterday.
In addition to Warsaw and Budapest, East Germans are held up in the West German Embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia. About 250 East Germans agreed to return home after promises they would not be punished, but 150 reportedly remain in the embassy.
WARSAW, Poland — The Polish Foreign Ministry filed a protest yesterday after 30 Polish tourists said that Romanian border soldiers beat them brutally with riffle butts after dragging them off a train, the state news agency PAP reported.
The Associated Press
The tourists were traveling from Budapest, Hungary, to the Romanian capital of Bucharest Tuesday night when Romanian soldiers ordered them to leave the train, forced them to surrender their passports and kept
them on a station platform as the train departed, according to the PAP report.
"When I asked for my passport, I was dragged by force inside the office, where I was brutally beaten," Bogdan Zapart of Legnica told the news agency.
Boguslaw Miernik, general director of Poland's Foreign Ministry, summoned Romania's charge d'affaires to demand an explanation, PAP said.
The news agency quoted Zapart as saying that the soldiers fired tear gas and wielded their rifles to subdue
other Poles coming to his aid. The group was then locked in a waiting room.
Zapart said he was handcuffed to a chair and beaten repeatedly.
Emilia Kwietniewska of Bialogod told PAP that she saw written messages in Polish on the waiting room walls about similar attacks on other Poles, including rapes and robberies.
The Romanian soldiers reportedly demanded payment Wednesday of 2,000 leli, $167 at the official exchange rate, to release Zapart. He paid and the travelers were put back on a train for Budapest, PAP said.
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