Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 27, 1991
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Nation/World briefs
Gorbachev denounces Yeltsin
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev fired back at Boris Yeltsin yesterday, saying his political rival was not working toward the goals of perestroika, a Soviet news agency reported.
Gorbachev, speaking to tractor factory workers in Minsk, made his first public comments about Yeltsin since the Russian federation went against the Soviet leader's resignation a week ago.
At the factory, Gorbachev was asked about a Feb. 12 interview on national television in which Yellins accused Gorbachev of abandoning personal power and forructuring policies, for personal political power,
Gorbachev replied that Yeltsin's own objectives were at odds with the goals of perestroika. Tass reported.
Port Moresby, New Guinea
200 die in highlands mudslide
A mudslide in the Papua New Guinea highlands wiped out several villages yesterday, killing at least 200 people, government officials said.
Prime Minister Rabbie Namalu said it was too soon to know exactly how many people were buried in what he called one of the nation's worst natural disasters.
Papua New Guinea, north of Australia, has a mainly Melanesian population of 3.5 million and shares its border on the main island of New Guinea with Indonesian's Irian Jaya province.
Petros, Tenn.
Prisoners suspected of escape
The convicted killer of Martin Luther King Jr. and another inmate have been placed in solitary confinement, reportedly for plotting a prison escape, a newspaper said yesterday.
A friend of James Earl Ray claims he and two others at Brushy Mountain State Prison were suspected of planning a prison break, The Oak Ridger reported.
"I don't know anything about what the papers are reporting," state Department of Corrections representative Brandon Maloney said yesterday.
Maloney did say Ray and fellow inmate Roger Dale Black were placed in involuntary administrative segregation Friday.
Ruy was convicted of the 1968 slaying of King in Memphis. Black is serving a burglary penalty.
From The Associated Press
Czech parliament votes to privatize all industry
PRAUGUE, Czechoslovakia - Parliament yesterday approved landmark legislation to end 40 years of state control of the economy with a vote to hand over all nationalized industry to private investors.
The Associated Press
The law is the most important in the government's ambitious program to turn the country from a Communist-controlled economy to a market-oriented system.
"It is an all-out attempt to get rid of" state ownership of industry and the only way to solve this enormous problem." Deputy Finance Minister Dusan Triska, architect of finance, said in news paper.
All 4,500 industrial enterprises, valued at $130 billion, should be available to domestic or foreign private investors by year's end, he said.
Deputies present in the 300-seat legislature voted 157-24 in favor of the legislation, the official news agency CTK said. Twelve deputies abstained from voting.
Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus, chief architect of economic reform, called the draft law a historic document when he presented it to parliament Thursday.
Czechoslovakia was among Europe's most advanced industrial countries before World War II, with military, textile and engineering industries respected worldwide.
Four decades of Communist rule after 1948 brought its economy to the verge of collapse, leaving the nation's first post-Communist government in an undated heavy industry and a polluted environment.
The country's economic reform shifted into high gear last month, with price deregulation and auctions of small shops that gave the population its first taste of post-war capitalism.
Klaus, in an interview published yesterday, expressed optimism about the reform despite concerns that it would lead to a shift.
"Everything points to the fact we can manage it," he told the weekly Reflex.
The new privatization law permits the sale of the country's most healthy industrial ventures to foreign investors in an effort to reap the capital needed to overhaul other outdated industries.
But Triska suggested no more than several dozen large Czechoslovakian enterprises would accept it.
Economists expect short recession
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An overwhelming majority of the nation's top economic forecasters share the Bush administration's expectation that the current recession will be shorter and much less severe.
The National Association of Business Economists survey showed Tuesday that 49 of the 54 forecasters participating in the poll, or 10 percent, had more than four months of experience or less, meaning it should be over by midyear.
The consensus of the National Association of Business Economists forecasters project the drop in the gross national product to 1 percent. The study was conducted during the first two weeks of February.
"Compared to historic norms, that is a fairly short recession," said Richard Rippe, National Association of Business Economists president and chief economist for Dean Witt Reynolds in New York. "In terms of severity, the recession is to be fairly shallow compared to historic norms."
A recession generally is defined as at least two consecutive quarterly declines in the gross national product, the nation's total output of goods and services. The Commerce Department said the
gross national product fell at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 1990.
President Bush based his fiscal 1991 budget on assumptions that the recession would be mild and would only last two quarters, with economic growth resuming in the April-June period.
In other economic news yesterday:
■ The Department of Commerce said orders to U.S. factories for durable goods, items that are expected to last more than three years, declined 0.7 percent in January after advancing 2.7 percent
The department also said the U.S. merchandise trade deficit narrowed to $108.68 billion in 1990, the smallest gap in seven years. Both exports and imports have fallen since the import growth was slower than exports.
On the other hand, Rippe noted a few bright spots:
- Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index is expected to slow to 4.4 percent this year on a year-over-year basis and to 4 percent in 1992. The CPI rose 6.1 percent during 1990.
But the forecasters said the federal budget gap would jump to $300 billion this fiscal year before falling to $291 billion in the fiscal year starting next October.
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