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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 25, 1991
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Oakland, Calif.
Search for fire's cause continues
Investigators continued searching for victims and clues yesterday in the aftermath of the devastating fire that swept the Oakland hills.
One or two people remained missing, according to authorities who think the fire may have been started by construction workers illegally burning debris.
The fire, which began Saturday, was brought under control Wednesday. It killed 24 people, injured 148, destroyed 2,900 residences and caused an estimated $5 billion in damage.
Rain was forecast for the weekend, and officials were worried about mudslides from the striped hills. To protect homes still covered in leaves, they planted wood and mesh barriers to catch soil and rocks.
Arson investigators yesterday swarmed at the site of Saturday's blaze. Fire Chief P. Lamont Ewell has said that the fire was suspicious because all natural causes had been ruled out.
Washington
GOP unifies on civil rights bill
Republican senators bargained with the White House in private yesterday to create a unified position on a civil rights bill to avert a threatened vote by President Bush.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole brought together White House counsel C. Boyden Gray and key GOP senators, including Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., the chief civil rights sponsor.
One Republican source said a tentative agreement had been reached between the White House and leading GOP senators on key issues, including the need for the deal not be immediately confirmed.
It concerned a narrow but intense argument on legal language which would set standards of defense that employers use against suits alleining unintentional discrimination.
Such an agreement could represent a breakthrough if embraced by the majority of voters.
Austin, Texas
Killeen tapes reveal frantic calls
Police yesterday released recordings of frantic phone calls reporting a "man shooting up the place" at a Luby's Cafeteria, which became the site of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.
The first call came after 12:39 p.m. oct. 10 from an unidentified caller who said, "There's a man on the loose" * George Henard had just been shot at the window café window and began shooting patrons.
Before police arrived, the police emergency line was ringing non-stop as patrons of Luby's were escorted.
Initially, police said the shooting spree lasted about 10 minutes, but after analyzing the tapes they revised that estimate to about 15 minutes. The gunfight with police lasted seven minutes.
Also, authorities released preliant autopsy reports on 22 of Hennard's victims. All died of gunshot wounds, 10 from single shots to the ballast, the Dallas Times Herald reported yesterday.
From The Associated Press
Location dispute could end Arab-Israeli talks
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With the opening of the peace conference less than a week away, Israeli sources said yesterday a dispute with Syria about where they would take place could break up the peace conference.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Bush administration supported Israel in principle in wanting the negotiations shifted to the Gaza Strip, where it is a battle and a brief organizational meeting in Madrid, Spain.
Israel's approach would be to conduct negotiations with Syria, Lebanon and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian envoy in separate cities in the Middle East, engaging between Israel and the Arab country involved.
But Syria wants to keep the talks in Madrid, thereby giving the conference an international flavor that Israel has objected to from the start, the sources said.
"This may break the conference," one source said. Describing Syria as a spacer and Jordan, on the other hand, as a potentially agreeable adversary, the sources also said Syria had tried unsuccessfully to persuade other Arab countries to follow its lead in refusing to participate in the final phase of the negro-
That phase will deal with such regional problems as weapons buildups, Palestinian refugees and
The sources also said Syria had refused to offer a peace treaty with Israel as a goal. As a result, the
Peace conference participants
invitations to the conference do not refer to peace treaties as the objective of the negotiations.
"We are going to talk about peace treaties, and they are going to talk about the Golan Heights," the Israeli sources said. "The Golan is part of Israel as far as Israeli law is concerned. We are not offering anything that goes beyond peace for peace."
Manufacturing indicators down; economists say recovery stalling
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy displayed further signals of weakness yesterday with a decline in orders of manufactured goods for a second straight month, according to a number of unemployed Americans filing for benefits.
The Labor Department said that new claims for unemployment benefits shot up by 29,000 to 452,000 for the week ending Oct. 12, pushing this figure to its highest level since May.
Analysts said the increase, which was fueled by auto laffys, showed that the recovery from the 1990-91 recession has been so weak that the economy is now in a state of shedding to keep the unemployment level from growing.
In a second report, the Commerce Department said that orders for "big-ticket" durable goods plunged 2.3 percent in September as the biggest drop in sales years added to the woes of American manufacturers.
It marked the second straight month that durable goods orders had fallen and increased worries that manufacturing, one of the few bright spots in the halting recovery, was beginning to weaken.
*September orders for durable goods reveal a recovery that is still on the skids and shows few signs of strength, said economist John M. Albertine, head of a Washington forecasting service.
However, not all analysts were as downbeat.
Jerry Jasinowski, head of the National Association of Manufacturers, said that the September weakness in durable goods was overstated by the big 48.9 percent drop in defense orders, a volatile category that had been up strongly in the past two months.
However, Jasinowski conceded that recent signs have shown export demand faltering and further layoffs in many manufacturing industries. And he wants to push interest rates lower to stimulate demand.
The central bank released its own survey of business conditions, which showed spreading weakness in such key areas as consumer spending and manufacturing.
The Bush administration has been stepping up pressure on the Fed to cut interest rates in an effort to boost a stagnant economy as the election year approaches. White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the new poll reflected that the country was concerned about coming out of the recession.
David Jones, economist with Aubrey G. Lanson and Co., a government securities dealer said, "Consumers are worried about jobs, about income tax and debt they carried over from the excesses of the 1800s."
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