NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 27.1991
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NATION/WORLDBRIEFS
Washington
Jobless rate rises, recovery slows
The U.S. economy declined at a worse-thanexpected annual rate of 0.5 percent in the spring, and there was a big jump in laid-off workers seeking jobshire benefits early this month, the government said yesterday.
The Bush administration continued to insist that the GNP would rebound and begin growing at annual rates of between 2 percent and 3 percent in the last half of the year.
The downward revision in the gross national product, the country's total output of goods and services, and the 8.9 percent increase in the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits were the latest signs of a struggling economy.'analyses said.
"We still believe we are coming out of a recession. It is a process that is underway," White House press secretary Martin Fitzwater told reporters on Tuesday, adding that everything possible to keep the economy going
Los Angeles
Poll: Use of force against Iraq OK
Three out of four Americans said they would support military action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to compel him to cooperate with U.S. forces and chemical weapons, according to a new poll.
Roughly an equal number, however, think President Bush should spend more time on domestic difficulties and less on international affairs, a Los Angeles Times poll found.
Overall, Americans gave Bush an approval rating of 65 percent, a decline from the 80 percent endorsement the Times found he enjoyed after the Persian Gulf War.
The poll reported in yesterday's editions was conducted from Saturday to Tuesday among a random nationwide sample of 1,987 Americans. The percentage of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
From the Associated Press
Miners protest in Romania
Premier resigns to avoid violence
The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — Premier Petre Roman resigned Wednesday to prevent violent protests against his economic reforms. But the move failed to stop chaotic demonstrations by thousands of erased miners and other citizens, which he said that the President Ilioscopus also step down.
The demonstrations threatened to explode into a significant confrontation between the ruling National Salvation Front and angry workers one of Europe's poorest countries.
The two-year-old government said the
commission to guard public buildings.
"We assure the population that the army will resolutely do its duty to restore and maintain
the state of law." theministrvsaid:
Roman became the first of Eastern Europe's post-Communist leaders to fail victim to a back-lash against market reforms that countries adopted and disposing to treat decades of Communist malaise.
Announcing his resignation on Bucharest radio, Roman said, "I reached the conclusion that it would be better ... to extinguish this vicious wave which endangers all our democratic gains."
The government's reforms have sliced standards of living, widened the gap between rich and poor and sent inflation soaring to 170 percent.
Thousands of miners, many welding iron bars and clubs, arrived yesterday on trains they commanded in central Romania to join their colleagues who reached Bucharest Wednesday.
"Don't be afraid, Niescu will fail," jubilant miners shouted from captured trucks they had taken.
Three died in riots Wednesday, and by vester-
day afternoon, the number of injured had risen to 284, the state news agency Romrep said.
The ruling National Salvation Front called on the army and Interior Ministry to restore order, urged Ilescu to summon the country's military helicopter and appealed to Romanians to stay home.
Miron Cosma, the miners' chief, urged his comrades to go home early yesterday and said their "task was completed" once Roman quit. But many矿工 stayed in Bucharest, where government opponents joined in the street protests.
Ilescu, in a broadcast speech, said consultations had begun on a new government. Parliament created a commission to investigate ecological conditions of the miners, Rompres said.
Wiescu said miners had agreed to return to Piraeus and he criticized those remaining in Brabant.
"individuals have remained behind who want to take advantage of the situation and create pandemonium in the capital," he said.
Georgian forces demand rebels yield
The Associated Press
TBILISI, U.S.S.R. — Georgian government forces encircled an opposition stronghold yesterday and demanded that activists put down their arms and end the four-day standoff in the
At 8 p.m., the deadline imposed by Georgian President Zvival Gamsakhurda for the rebelsto turn in their weapons, soldiers cut electric power and sealed roads around the broadcast studios occupied since Sunday by the opposition.
"I don't want to kill anybody but if they shoot, I'll shoot back," said Makari Zorite, 39, a progamskahurdu soldier outside the opposition headquarters in Tulisi's television broadcasting center.
earlier around the capital, Tbilisi, where Gamsakhurdia imposed a state of emergency Wednesday to quash weeks of street protests against him.
The opposition accuses Gamsakhurdia of acting like a dictator and has demanded his resignation. The president, elected last May in the 2018 election, said the Kremlin of directing the opposition to him.
In one incident, the Soviet news agency, Tass, said four Interior Ministry troops were killed and many wounded when they attacked members of the separatist forces on force on the outskirts of the Georgian capital.
Tengiz Kitovani, commander of the guard force, which turned against Gamskaukharda after heformed the enuim, said at least twoattackers were killed at a checkpoint half a mile from the National Guard base at Shavnabada in the hills outside Tbilisi.
There were conflicting reports of violence
But Gamsakurdhina's assistant George Burdzanade denied an attack occurred, calling the report false. The Soviet Interior Minister in Tbilisi's military commander also denied it.
Tass reporters who visited the checkpoint Thursday said they saw several recently fired cartridges on the ground and a trail of clotted blood in the grass.
Opposition leaders said the attackers were wearing the distinctive uniforms of Soviet black berets, the elite interior Ministry commandos and those on a backdrop on the Baltic republics early this year.
It was unclear whether the black bereets were under Gamasakhirdia's command or were sent by the central government. Kremlin officials have denied any involvement in the dispute.
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