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Nation/World briefs
Index shows economy headed for recession
The government's main economic forecasting gauge stalled in July, indicating to analysts that the nation might have been leaping toward recession even before the Middle East
The index is designed to forecast economic conditions six months to nine months in the
The Commerce Department said yesterday that its Index of Leading Economic Indicators was unchanged after posting a barely perceptible 0.1 percent gain in June.
"Essentially, it's another indication of a slumping economy," said David Jones, an economist with Aubrey G. Lanson & Co., a New York securities company. Jones said it will probably be down next month, but the bank is also raising the Auc 2 Iran invasion of Kuwait.
Gordon Richards, an economist with the National Association of Manufacturers, said that while the July figures don't point to a decrease in demand, "it has made a downturn almost inevitable."
U.S. Delegation sees human rights violations
WASHINGTON — Thousands of ethnic Albanians in Pristina, Yugoslavia, tried Wednesday to voice their human rights concerns at a rally organized led by Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.
Riot police, swinging batons and firing tear gas, dispersed the crowds, and drivers of the motorcade carrying the senators whisked them through town without stopping.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press in Washington, Dole described the human rights abuses suffered by the Albanians as "probably the worst in Europe."
Dole said the Serbian minority, in control in the southern Kosovo province, thought the campaign was not going to be successful.
Ethnic Albanians, who make up 90 percent of Kosovo's 1.9 million people, are protesting last month's decision by the Communist authorities of Serbia to reduce Kosovo's autonomy. Kosovo is an administrative district of Serbia, Yugoslavia's largest republic.
Dole said unity is 'going to be difficult to achieve in Yugoslavia because of ethnic differences.'
"But we believe in democracy and individual rights. It's going to come, just like it has always been."
Preliminary census totals predict California highest
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The flow of Americans to California has pushed the Golden State ahead of all rivals in population and will give it a record 52 wins. In 1992, 80 percent of Representatives, new census figures indicate.
Preliminary 1990 population figures show California pickup up seven house seats, followed by Florida with four, Texas three and a handful of other warm weather states with one each.
Kansas will lose one seat, dropping to four,
according to the figures.
New York hung on to its 2. ranking in population in the new figures — with Texas and Florida closing fast in third and fourth places — because its population rose only slightly in the 1980s.
Four Northern industrial states — Illinois,
Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania — lost population during the decade and will have two fewer seats each.
The Census Bureau estimated a national count of just under 246 million, including 29.3 million in
California, 17.6 million in New York, 16.8 million in Texas and 12.8 million in Florida. Wyoming was last, at just under 450,000, passed by Alaska, which is now the largest population in 1980 but greet to almost 540,000 in 1990.
The total population count in 1980 was 226,545,805.
House seats are redistributed among the states after each Census. Because the number is limited to 435 seats, when a growing state gains a seat some other state must lose one.
New York's slight population gain was quickly disputed by state officials, who had predicted that the city would become a megacity.
"I don't believe it, 'tis government control." Albany. "Do you really, honestly believe that everybody who should be counted has been robbed?" The mother of the baby mother had trouble; she didn't want to answer.
New York City Mayor David D. Ninkins called the city's estimated decline "unadulterated nonsense" and promised to pinpoint where he said the government had made errors.
Indians tear down barrier to settle land controversy
The Associated Press
MONTREAL - Masked Mohawk iwans yesterday helped soldiers tear down barricades set up seven weeks ago near the Mercier Bridge, avoiding a bloody confrontation.
But other Mohaws said the original dispute remained unsettled and barricades at nearby Oka would remain. The bridge barriers had been set up in sympathy.
After a meeting in front of one barricade leading to the community of Chateaugaig and the Kahnwa wake reserve, army officers and unarmed members of the Mohawks' Warriors Society began bringing the Mercier Bridge barrier down with heavy equipment.
The two sides then began dismantling another barricade near Chateauugay on a highway blocked since July 11, when Mohawks at Oka fought a gun battle with provincial police in a dispute over land the community of Oka had earmarked as a golf course. The Indians said it was ancestral land.
A police officer was killed. Responsibility in the death has not been fixed.
Other Indians shut down Mercier Bridge in
support of the Mohawks at Oka, infuriating commuters and local businesses.
A Mohawk spokesperson at the Kahnakeah community in Oka, 18 miles west of Montreal, said the barricades there would remain. He said theiment in Kahnakeah affected only that reservation.
“This place holds the key to everything,” Dan David, a spokesperson for the Kahnesatake Mohawks, said. “Everybody knows this is where everything started and this is where everything just end.
There were no immediate talks between the army and the Mohawks near OkA.
Earlier yesterday, four trucks, two front-end loaders on flatbed trucks, and two armored personnel carriers had moved toward the Mohawk barricades near the bridge. Reports circulated that the government issued an ultimatum to Indian negotiators to settle or face army guns.
Mohawk spokesperson Jack LeClaire said yesterday at one barricade, "The decision was taken to go."
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