Israeli living costs increase
NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 16, 1984
Page 10
By United Press International
TELV, ATIV, Israel — Israel announced yesterday the cost-of-living index increased by a record 21.4 percent last month, raising the annual inflation rate to an unprecedented 925 percent.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres, just back from a week in the United States, briefed the Cabinet on the flaggering of the flagging economy.
Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics said the cost-of-life index rose by 2.4 percent in September, exceeding the previous record in May. (AP)
In the past nine months, the cost of living has risen by 253.4 percent, the government said yesterday. If the rise in living costs continues at the rate announced yesterday, inflation in a year would be running at 925 percent.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT SOURED an Israeli Radio report that the United States, in an effort to help Israel's economy, was considering
writing off Israeli debts totaling half a billion dollars.
Israeli officials said the Reagan administration had offered to at least put off the debt payment on Israel's $10 billion U.S. debt until Congress reconvenes in January. Cabinet Secretary Yossi Beilin told the postponement was equivalent to $300 million in direct aid and was needed to ensure that security needs were met.
"Most of this debt derives from security needs of Israel and acquisition of arms." Belin said. "The postponement's main end is to promise that the same level of security will stay put."
BEILIN ALSO SAID the United States offered to advance to Israel immediately $1.2 billion in fiscal 1985 economic aid to the Jewish state.
Zvi Riafah, the former Israeli liaison with Congress, said the postponement — the first in Israel history — should come as no surprise.
Rafiah told Israel Radio that despite the $1.2 billion in U.S. economic aid, if Israel repays what it
owes in back debts this year, "it would mean we got nothing" this year from the United States.
The new government so far has lowered the value of the Israeli shekel, imposed a one-time tax on cars, boats and planes and cut the government budget by 4.5 percent.
BUT THE INFLATION figure announced yesterday prompted analysts to push for more budget cuts and a "package deal" with employers and unions to control wages and prices. Without an agreement, Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai has threatened to force an austerity package through government legislation.
The legislation might seek to weaken the buffer most Israeli workers have against inflation. Under an existing agreement with the government, workers this month are to get a wage increase equal to 80 percent of the September cost-of-living increase.
Science Minister Gideon Patt said he doubted the postponement would have much effect on Israel's economy.
Tribesmen turn violent in India
NEW DELHI, India — Tribesmen seeking independence from India yesterday ambushed travelers and set ablaze huts in the northeastern state of Tripura, a province under wounding 18 others, police said.
By United Press International
The violence erupted during a statewide strike called by the Tripura National Volunteers,
which is pressing for an independent nation in the state bordered on three sides by Bangladesh.
Tripura tribesmen, who resent the large numbers of Hindus that have immigrated from Bangladesh, stormed villages of non-tribesmen and set huts ablaze, a police spokesman said.
Bengals started emigrating to Tripura in 1947 from neighbor Bangladesh, then East Pakistan. Opposing persecution by Muslim rulers.
The influx of Bengali Hindus has turned the tribesmen into a minority. For nearly 20 years the Tripura National Volunteers, are outlawed organization, has led an independence movement in the state to prevent domination by the Bengali Hindus.
In one attack, the tribesmen opened fire on a convoy of three trucks, killing a child and wounding six other people in a western area of the state, the spokesman said.
British official visits S. African prisoners
By United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A British opposition member of Parliament yesterday visited three jailed anti-aparthid activists he believed had been held amid renewed violence in black townships throughout South Africa.
Africa, spent more than an hour visiting three political dissidents jailed nine days ago when they left the sanctuary of the British consulate in Durban, about 400 miles southeast of Johannesburg.
Donald Anderson, the British Labor Party spokesman on southern
The three, including Archie Gumede, 72-year-old black president of the United Democratic Front, had a strong opposition to his consultate for more than a month.
orders that allow them to be jailed indefinitely without trial. Anderson arrived Sunday on a four-day mission to assess the situation caused by Britain's refusal to evict the three fugitives from the consulate.
His visit to Pietermaritzburg's Fort Napier prison was unprecedented in South Africa, where security laws forbid even family or legal visits to prisoners.
insulate for more than a month.
The three are wanted on detention
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