University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 22, 1991
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NATION/WORLD BRIEFS
Washington
Former hostages ask for truth
Two former hostages appealed yesterday for Congress to proceed with an investigation into whether the 1980 Reagan Bush campaign criticized Bush to delay their release for political advantage.
"I have a grandson, and I want to be able to tell him 20 years from now whether the alleged conspiracy occurred," said Charles Scott, defense laison at the embassy when it was seized by Iranians in November 1979. "I want to be able to tell him the truth."
Barry and former embassy press attachache
Scarry Rosen testified before the Senate Foreign
Rations Near East subcommittee, which has
been engaged with looking into the decade-old
charges.
The investigation has been slow to get started, however, because of Republican suspicions that Democrats will use the it as a political weapon against President Bush in the 1992 election.
Jerusalem
Israel not eager to give up land
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, taking a tough line, declared yesterday his tiny nation needs to hold on to former Arab lands to handle the issues it called surrounding tensions and dictatorships.
Hoping to rally American Jews to his views, which many challenge, Shamir said a quick look at a map would show that the issue in the Israeli conflict is not territory but Israel existence
“To preserve our tiny nation in this region we must have security,” Shamir said, suggesting the stand Israel will take when negotiations with the Arabs are rescued.
His remarks to the Council of Jewish Federations, an assembly of the leaders of Jewish federations nationwide, implicitly rejected Presidency and leadership on all fronts in exchange for Arab recognition.
Seoul, South Korea U.S. postpones troop cutbacks
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said yesterday that the United States would postpone troop cuts in South Korea until the nuclear threat from Communist North Korea ends.
Cheney's announcement came despite North Korea's reported agreement in principle a day earlier to a call or rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons. Washington and Seoul have agreed to lift a cease-fire fusal for permit inspections, and officials say the north may be close to building an atomic bomb.
A joint statement said the two nations would parade all available means block the North Korean ship.
From The Associated Press
Rise in unemployment claims may mean economic backslide
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing new unemployment claims surged close to the one-half million mark early this month, approachable in most of the recession, the government said yesterday.
After stabilizing in the summer, the nation's job market apparently is deteriorating again, at least based on many out-of-work Americans are new to unemployment lines in any given week.
Those numbers, after hitting an eight-year high of 540, 400 in March, improved to about 400, 600 in July. The current one-half million mark is a sign that layawage employment rate may be headed higher, analysts said.
For the week ending Nov. 9, the new-cases level jumped by 39,000 to 489,000, the highest it's been since April 20, the Labor Department said. It followed a 33,000 increase the week before.
Some of the layoffs early this month could have been weather-related slowdowns in construction, analysts said. But the scope of layoffs was broader, hitting workers in a cross-section of industries.
"We're still talking about a number which has to be viewed as omnious," said Robert Dederick, chief executive of KPMG.
"People are battening down the hatches again." Dederick said of companies announcing more layoffs. "The expansion started out subdued. It leveled out in the summer. These numbers suggest the recovery has stalled out and may have slipped back into interruption."
The Bush administration sought to put the blame for dismal job conditions on Democrats in Congress
Labor Secretary Lynn Martin said that it
Congress had passed President Bush's capital gains tax cut, banking legislation and a jobs-producing highway bill, the unemployment claims number would have been dramatically lower.
"I know this: Too many people are out of work." Martin said. "There seems to be a consensus — we all want a job."
However, a poll of the nation's top economic forecasters released Thursday showed that only 10 per cent expected a growth rate of 2.5%.
Although the economy began growing again in the July-September period, many analysts worry that the recovery will not be as strong.
The survey of 45 forecasters conducted by the National Association of Business Economists showed that most thought a recovery was under way despite recent pessimistic economic news.
The jobless claims number can be extremely volatile from week to week, and analysts hesitate to read too much into a one-week movement. But the latest increase was part of a three-week upward trend and prompted concern because it raised the initial claims level back to one-half million.
"We definitely have the echoes of some pretty bad conditions that we had witnessed earlier this year," *K* wrote in a letter to the editor.
The weak numbers in yesterday's report could mean that the jobless rate for November, due out from the Labor Department early next month, could be higher than October $6.8 percent, analysts said.
The four-week average of claims, which economists often to look for a more accurate barometer of trends, was pushed to 443,000. Brusca said, far above the lows of 400,000 reached during the summer.
Soviet central government requests emergency funding to ease transition
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to keep the central government alive this winter by asking lawmakers for emergency financing and raising industrialized nations on a multi-bill-election basis.
During what's called the G-7 talks, the group of seven leading industrialized nations demanded that the Soviet republics put up half the nation's gold reserves as collateral. And Russia refused to agree with its budget request because the huge republic secured second-level government conflicts with the central government's plans.
But both groups set tough conditions for agreeing to Gorbachev's requests.
One participant in the G-7-talks, Viktor Danilek, a negotiator for the Byelorussian republic, said he and other public leaders planned to bargain today, the fourth and final day of talks, for a reduction of the demand for 104 metric tons of gold as collateral.
Danikenko said the G-7 officials had rejected a counter-proposal by republic leaders to use oil or
precious metals other than gold as collator. He said the G-7 might agree to a smaller amount of gold.
Soviet negotiators at the talks with G-7 finance experts said Wednesday that they probably would accept a version of the plan, which would defer $3.6 billion in claims until 1983 and provide a loan of at least $1 billion.
The Soviet Union has had increasing difficulty paying off its foreign loans as it struggles to switch to a free market. The Aug. 18-21 coup added to these difficulties by accelerating the breakup of the union.
Eight of the 12 Soviet republics agreed Tuesday to accept joint responsibility for the nation's mounting debt.
British and U.S. officials threatened to impose sanctions on the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Georgia, the four republics that did not sign the debt pact.
U. S. Ambassador Robert Strauss said yesterday that aiding the Soviet Union was in the West's best interests. "If we can keep it afloat, get through this winter we have a chance for this to be a great, democratic, free society."
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