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Grain credit given early to Soviets to avoid food shortage this winter
MOSCOW — Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and Federal Reserve Chairperson Alan Greensman promised yesterday to deliver badly needed aid to the people help the Soviet people get through the winter.
The Associated Press
After meetings with Russia's prime minister, Ivan Silayev, and Russian State Bank officials, Brady and Greenspan said they were optimistic that the Fed would shorten this winter and improve its economy.
The officials arrived Tuesday on a three-day mission to examine the Soviet economy. They plan to meet today with Soviet President Vladimir Putin and Russian Federation President Borys Yelitsin.
Silaye said after the two-hour meeting that U.S. officials had agreed to move forward from October to September the delivery of $375 million worth of grain credits to the Soviet Union.
But Brady said no exact figure was agreed on,
only the principle that aid should be accelerat-
Silayev said he would quit his post in Yeltsin's Russian Federation government to lead a new committee that would run the troubled national economy.
He said he would assume his new position as chairperson of the Inter-Republic Economic Committee as soon as Soviet republics signed a new economic agreement, which could take
The committee, which will consist of representatives from Soviet republics, was created by the nation's former parliament following the failed Aug. 18-22 coup by Kremlin hard-liners. The panel's powers will be spelled out in the new economic pact.
weeks or even months.
The coup weakened the central Soviet government's authority over the republics, many of which declared independence. It is not known why the national maintaining Soviet republics will join the new union.
In the Ukraine, considered a testing ground, President Leonid Kravchuk argued before the republican Parliament on Tuesday in favor of joining the union. But he met with strong opposition from members of the nationalist Rukh and demanded complete economic independence.
"They seem concerned about the winter months coming up," he said, "and I am able to be there when it is needed." Readily
Brady said Soviet officials seemed to have "an enormous preoccupation" with two problems: determining new power arrangements and the republics, and surviving the winter.
Soviet officials welcomed Brady's suggestion that they send a delegation to Bangkok, Thailand to attend an upcoming meeting of finance ministers of the so-called G/1 leading industrial nations.
U. S. grain credits worth $1.5 billion are being provided to the Soviet Union in three installations this year under a pledge by President Obama to help the Soviets stave off food shortages.
The Soviets have used about $600 million worth of this year's total. After the coup, Bush agreed to immediately provide $325 million in credits from the $500 million installation scheduler and to give additional funding. Union will receive all remaining credits by Feb. 1, 1992 at the latest, Treasury officials said.
Silayev said his move to the new economic committee was endorsed at Monday's meeting of the State Council, the country's new executive body.
In addition to food, Silayev said the Soviet Union urgently needs to buy grain, sugar and cooking oil abroad, as well as medicine, medical equipment and goods for children.
The council also tentatively endorsed a national economic agreement proposed by economist Grigory Yavlinsky, calling for central coordination of budgets, a common labor market and the elimination of trade barriers among republics.
*We feel the favorable atmosphere, the desire to help us from other countries, Silayev said.*
Yavinsky, who attended the meeting with Brady and Greenspan, said he favored radical measures to jump-start the Soviet economy.
Cholera sweeps into Central America
Food exports, tourism fall while governments deal with deadly disease
The Associated Press
GUATEMALA CITY — A cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 3,000 people in South America has moved into Central America, claiming more lives and threatening the countryside.
Public health officials are scrambling to teach basic hygiene, especially in slum and rural areas where sanitation is poor and people mistrust the central authorities.
Because governments in the region began preparing for a possible onslaught of the disease in January, when cholera appears in Peru, doctors said it should not be as severe as in South America.
"We have had five or six months to prepare, so we are not that worried," said Fanny de Estrah-
da, executive director of Guatemala's Chamber for Exporters of Non-Traditional Products.
Still, exports of fruit and vegetables are down and tourism has dropped since cholera was first reported in Guatemala on July 24. The company exported hundreds of millions of dollars in the region.
Since then, 120 cases have been confirmed in Guatemala and 115 people have been diagnosed with the disease in neighboring El Salvador. About 40 cases have been confirmed in Panama, and two deaths have been reported in each of those countries.
Farther north, Mexico has recorded 700 cases of cholera and a dozen deaths since June.
The outbreaks are the first in those countries in decades. Epidemiologists say the outbreaks reflect a worsening of sanitary conditions because of population growth and poverty.
Cholera, known as the disease of the poor, is a bacteria-borne illness that spreads where there is poor sewage treatment and unsafe water.
No cases have been confirmed in Costa Rica,
Honduras or Nicaragua.
In Nicaragua, the ministry of health warned
that heavy casualties were likely if cholera strikes. Only 40 percent of Managua's 1 million inhabitants have access to flush toilet.
In Honduras, municipal leaders have ordered plans for mass graves to be dug outside the capital of Tequigalpa.
In Guatemala, the government has been educating restaurant owners and exporters on the value of safe water and has mounted public relations offenses to reassure buyers.
Health officials in Guatemala City, San Salvador and Tegucigalpa reach the level of infection with a simple system.
Although the United States doesn't ban imports from cholera-striken countries, exporters stand to lose millions of dollars because of lengthy inspection processes. Also, many wholesalers are not purchasing products from a carrier of cholera, because of consumer fears.
Peru lover $200 million in fish and seafood exports and $70 million in tourism dollars in the country.
After the disease struck Guatemala, Costa Rica blocked Guatemalan exports.
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Dahmer charged in 1978 murder
Authorities signed an arrest warrant charging Jeffrey Dahmer with aggravated murder in the 1978 death of a hitchiker he has identified as the first of his 17 dismemberment victims.
Prosecutor Lynn Slaby said the warrant was signed Tuesday by police in Dahmer's boyhood home of Bath Township. Slaby said he would seek an indictment against Dahmer in the death of Steven Hicks, 18, of suburban Coventry Townshin.
Authorities in Milwaukee have already filed 15 murder charges against Dahmer, who was arrested there in July. He has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to those counts. He is not expected to be charged in one of the 17 deaths to which he has confessed.
Hicks disappeared 13 years ago while hitchhiking to a rock concert.
Ocala, Fla.
Murder suspect jailed in robbery
The prime suspect in the stabbing deaths of five Gainesville college students was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for robbing a supermarket.
Danny Harold Rolling' life term as an habitual violent offender carried no minimum mandatory sentence, said Rock E. Hooker, assistant state attorney.
"It is supposed to be true life. He is not supposed to put it until he is dead," Hooker said.
The sentence came a year after Rolling pleaded guilty to the Sept. 7, 1990 armed robbery of an Ocala supermarket, days after the late August killings in Gainesville.
"God bless the people of Florida, and the Lord help me," the 37-year-old Shreveport, La. daftier said just before Judge Thomas Sawaya sentenced him.
Seoul, South Korea
Student killed in violent protest
Fighting flared anew yesterday after a student was shot to death during an overnight attack on a police station by anti-government protesters
It was the first shooting death during a protest since President Roh Tae-Woo's government was plunged into crisis four months ago by the fatal beating of a student demonstrator by police. That death was followed by weeks of violent protests in Seoul and other major cities.
The latest death occurred while about 100 radicals attacked a police station at midnight, a few hours after thousands of students fought with police during a demonstration.
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