University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. April 10. 1991
Nation/World
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World briefs
Vilnius, Lithuania
Soviet soldiers seize building
Soviet soldiers yesterday seized a driving school in the Lithuanian capital, and President Vytautas Landsbergis expressed fears that the forces would round a round of Kremlin actions against his republic.
The Lithuanian statement said Algimantas Norvilias, a member of the Supreme Council legislature and supervisor of the school, proclaimed that he was threatened with a gun and forced to leave.
The Lithuanian parliament's information bureau said the school building, which was seized early yesterday, belonged to the republic. It formerly belonged to a military youth organization, and the Soviet army plans to use it for training recruits.
"The action was carried out by armed soldiers in camouflage uniforms and bulletproof vests under the command of a Soviet army major who would be present or present his documents," the statement said.
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Atlantis uses stars to track target
Atlantis gigz zagged in the wake of the mug Gamma Ray Observatory yesterday as its astronauts tried out a manual system for chasing down targets in orbit.
The crew also spotted fellow space travelers, two Soviet cosonauts.
The astronauts bypassed the ship's rendezvous radar, used for space tracking in the past, and used the ancient mariner's way of steering by the stars.
"We are trying some experimental techniques we can use in the future should we run into a problem with the rendezvous radar," said flight director Wayne Hale.
Moscow
McDonald's hikes prices, wages
Big Macs now are taking even a bigger bite out of Soviet budgets.
Moskow's McDonald's has raised its price in preparation for the opening of Mr. McDonald's in the restaurant, the largest McDonald's in the world.
"The line decreased yesterday, but the number of customers didn't." he said. Last week, lunch at McDonald's often involved a two-hour wait. Yesterday, the wait was 10 minutes.
A Big Mac, which had cost seven rubles 10 kopecks, went up to nine rubles 45 kopecks. French fries jumped from one ruble 57 kopecks an order to two rubles 95 kopecks.
One ruble is worth about $1.70 at the official exchange rate
From The Associated Press
Israel willing to talk, solve regional conflict
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel informed the United States yesterday it was willing to hold peace talks with the Arab nations under American auspices and with the participation of the Soviet Union.
"I hope that the U.S. will succeed in getting agreement of the other parties." Foreign Minister David Levy said, underscoring that Israel's goal is to regain relations with its neighbors about their 43-ver战绩.
Secretary of State James Baker referred to the Israeli move, which came at the start of four days of talks with Mideast leaders, as very constructive.
However, Baker said, "There is a long, long way to go. There are many, many parties involved. There are lots of questions before us that have to be addressed."
If Baker, who meets later in the week with Egyptian, Saudi, Syrian and Jordanian leaders, can gain their approval for regional peace talks, it would be a breakthrough on what he has called "the most intractable problem in diplomacy — the Arab-Israeli dispute."
Initial reactions from Egypt's state-owned news paper and from Palestinian leaders were hardly
On the eve of Baker's visit to Cairo, the newspaper Al-Ahram said that Egypt rejected Israel's proposal for separate negotiations with Arab governments. It also still views an international peace conference, not the regional con-
ference involving Israel and the United States, as the proper framework for settling Arab-Israeli disputes.
And Palestinian leaders said their talks yesterday with Baker revealed no apparent change in American or Israeli policies toward the territories occupied by Israel.
"Really, we can't tell you about anything encouraging out of this meeting," said Haydar al-Daher.
Levy reaffirmed a 1989 Israeli offer to hold elections on the West Bank and Gaza Strip leading to limited Palestinian self-rule.
The peace conference, as Levy described it, did not call for Palestinian participation. However, he said later on Israeli television that Palestinians should be part of a Jordanian delegation, with representatives from Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza who are non-PLO members.
Baker met separately with Palestinians approved by Chairman Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and a senior instructor at the American Participation in any peace conference was essential.
Baker met with Levy and then with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who had set a positive tone for his stop in Israel by announcing that some posthumist prisoners would be released this weekend.
Economists say slump at close
Recession will end during this quarter, most predict
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Seventy percent of the nation's top economists believe the U.S. economy will pull out of the recession during the current quarter, according to a survey released yesterday.
"Seven of 10 (of the 51 economists) responding now say the recession will be over by April, May or June — with nearly equal votes for each of three months," wrote Robert G. Eggert, editor of Blue Chip Economic Indicators, the Sedona, Ariz., newsletter that conducted the survey.
The survey showed that the participants were more optimistic than in a previous poll in January when 66 percent forecast an end to the recession this quarter.
The survey participants represent many of the nation's top banks, brokerage companies, corporations, economic forecasting organizations and universities.
Bush administration economists also believe the economy's downturn will end between April and June and be milder and briefer than most of the eight previous recessions since World War II.
Some private economists, however, point to continued sharp declines in employment and weakness in the industrial sector as evidence that the recession will be neither short nor shallow.
Seventy-six percent of the Blue Chip economists now think that the recession began last August or September, compared with 61 percent surveyed in early January. About a third of respondents October, down from 23 percent in the earlier poll.
Twenty percent said the downturn would come
month, 26 percent said in May and 24 percent
in June. In the January survey, 16 percent said
the downturn was in April, 20 percent in May
and 30 percent in June.
Thirteen percent projected that the recession would extend into the third quarter, down from 26 percent who forecasted a third-quarter trough in the January survey.
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