November 15,1984
NATION AND WORLD
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The University Daily KANSAN
U.S. retail sales decline; holiday buying may help
WASHINGTON — The nation's retail sales, which have been in the doldrums since June, edged down 0.1 percent in October, according to advance figures released yesterday by the Commerce Department.
But some analysts saw signs of possible improvement ahead and anxious merchants were hoping for a strong Christmas buying season.
Sandra Shaber of Chase Econometrics, an economic forecasting firm, said the poor performance was largely due to temporary factors that would correct themselves, and sales would rebound during the holiday season.
October sales totaled a seasonally adjusted $167.7 billion, down from a
seasonal increase of 29%.
Postmaster general job filled
WASHINGTON — Paul Carlin, who helped reorganize the nation's mail system in the Nixon administration, was named yesterday to become the 66th postmaster general and vowed to ensure "prompt, reliable and economical" serv-
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors announced it voted unanimously for Carlin as successor for Postmaster General William Bolger, who is retiring Dec. 31.
United Press International
Carlin, who has been responsible for one-third of the nation's mail as head of the service's central region, increased productivity by 13.7 percent and improved minority hiring since taking over the post in 1981.
Polish rights groups warned
WARSAW, Poland — Polish authorities yesterday warned activists who formed human rights groups to monitor police violence that their activities were illegal and carried a maximum 3-year prison term.
The activists were summoned to prosecutors' offices just hours after the government vowed to stamp out the human rights groups, which were formed in response to last month's murder of a pro-Solidarity priest by secret police.
Nicaraguan ridicules reports
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaraquan Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escuero yesterday ridiculed Pentagon reports that it may use its growing Soviet supplied arsenal against its neighbors, saying such action could undermine the operation, on a silver platter" for an invasion.
But despite tense relations, d'Escoto said Nicaragua and the United States would meet for a new round of talks in Manzanillo, Mexico, in the coming days.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi places flowers at the Nehru shrine. Rajiv was honoring his grandfather, the late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, on the anniversary of Nehru's birth yesterday.
Tension rises at Yale about strike
By United Press International
NEW HAVEN. Conn — Yale University students fed up with dining halls and accumulating trash, yesterday launched a class boycott aimed at forcing settlement of a 7-week old campus white-collar workers' strike.
"We're sick of this," said senior Daniel Frokinm in announcing the planned three-day boycott at the Ivy League school to urge settlement of the strike by 1,600 members of Local 34, Federation of University Employees.
"We're suffering. The quality of our education has been lowered. Garbage is piling up. There is tension on the campus and we have to come here for." he said at a news conference.
WHILE UNION AND administration negotators met in their third session of the conference, the two sides agreed.
students said they expected 1,000 of the 10,300 students enrolled to participate in the
Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti charged the boycott was part of an effort to disrupt the campus and said the only way on the union's first contract,
"The people who deny their own opportunity to go to class aren't putting pressure on the union," he said. "All they're doing is themselves an opportunity for education."
Giamatti said faculty have a "moral and legal obligation to the students and the university" to teach their classes. He said they would lose pay and action might be taken against them if they canceled classes
THE BOYCOTT FOLLOWED the announcement Tuesday by a group of graduate students that they planned to withhold second semester tuition payments to hasten the
strike's end — and urged others to follow suit.
T tuition is $14,000 annually.
Last month, a multi-million dollar class action suit was filed against Yale by a group of students charging breach of contract for failing to provide services guaranteed in the
Campus life has deteriorated since Sept. 26 when clerical and technical workers — most of them women — walked off jobs in a dispute centered on charges Yale discriminates in wages on the basis of sex. Average union wage is $12,400. Yale denies the claim.
That forced dining halls to be closed, library hours to be curtailed and trash to pile up. Dormitories, some with unattended faulty toilets and smelly bathrooms, were described as "fifty" by law and management graduate students.
Their protest was exacerbated by the refusal of about 1,000 members of an affiliate blue collar union to cross the picket lines at many of Yale's 200 buildings.
Tax motions to be offered to President
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A Treasury Department official yesterday outlined the four tax simplification proposals that will be sent to President Reagan next month but refused to say which one the administration will endorse.
Charles McLure, deputy assistant secretary for tax policy, said the Treasury Department's closely held tax study focuses on raising the tax structure, not on raising revenue.
McLure said the study, which Reagan commissioned during the presidential campaign, includes four major options:
"The analyses we're doing are entirely revenue neutral," he told a tax seminar sponsored by the National Apartment Association. But, he noted, government income could be boosted by tinkering with any of the tax formulas.
- A pure "flat tax" with a single rate federal income tax and no deductions or credits.
- A modified flat tax that would have a few rates and retain some deductions.
- A consumer income tax, taxing income minus savings.
- A federal sales tax similar to the European value-added tax.
He 'listed the advantages and disadvantages of each, and said the study would be sent to the president early next month" with the advice as to what we think is the right approach.
It is quite clear that given the system we have, we could do much better," McLure said.
He noted a pure flat tax, while making the tax structure much simpler, would shift much of the tax burden to lower income groups, which "probably would not be politically acceptable."
He said the advantages of a modified flat tax were "somewhere between the existing system and a flat tax...and could be constructed so the tax burden of any income groups would be relatively unchanged."
While offering some high praise for the consumer income tax, which would encourage savings and penalize spending, he noted the transition would be difficult and exceptions would have to be made. For example, under that system, retirees would be penalized for living on their savings.
And the sales tax, he said, while treating all segments of the economy equally, would certainly raise prices.
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