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University Daily Kansan / Monday. February 18, 1991
World briefs
Bombs explode in train stations
An explosion ripped through London's Victoria train station today, killing one person and injuring at least 25, police said. It came just hours after a blast at Paddington train station that caused no injuries, they said.
Police closed all mainline railway stations in London, and morning rush-hour traffic was halted;
The head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch, Commander George Churchill-Coleman, said some of the injured were hurt seriously.
Victoria is the main station for commuters in the city and is also the link to the cable car. Gate locks are
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosions, which came 11 days after an Irish Republican Army mortar bomb attack on the prime minister's office.
Bogota, Colombia
Car bomb kills 22, wounds 140
Drug traffickers claimed responsibility yesterday for a car bombing in Medellin that killed 22 people and wounded 140, a radio station reported.
The bomb exploded Saturday near the bullfighting ring in Colombia's second biggest city, San Juan de los Reinos.
It was one of the worst attacks since the government declared war on drug traffickers in Afghanistan.
The bomb was aimed at police providing security for the event, said Gen. Gustavo Pardo, an army commander in Medellin, 180 miles northwest of Bogota.
Bangkok, Thailand
Dynamite explosion kills 123
A lit cigarette, a passing vehicle or a short-circuit may have detonated seven tons of dynamite from an overtured truck, killing at least 123 people, police said Saturday.
Explosives experts examined the blast site in the Phang-Ng province Saturday as cruisers headed to the scene.
Prime Minister Chaitchia Choonhavan was directing relief operations at the scene, about 400 km northwest of the capital.
The blast occurred about an hour after the truck overturned Friday. At least 123 people were injured, including 10 in serious condition. Also, 50 homes were destroyed and other buildings up to 300 yards from the blast were damaged.
A Thai newspaper, The Nation, said a doctor quoted another injured man as saying that the overturned truck injured police requests that they disperse. From The Associated Press
Deficit getting bigger but still unpredictable
By Martin Crutsinger
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration finally is admitting the awful truth.
The Associated Press WASHINGTON
The Associated Press
This time last year, administration officials were trooping to Capitol Hill to defend the president's first from-scratch budget and its projected deficit of $68.1 billion for the fiscal year 1991.
But instead of a $631.1 billion deficit, the administration now expects a 1919 deficit of $811.8 billion. That deficit, an all-time high, means the country is spending more on national debt at a rate of nearly $1 billion a day.
How could the administration have been so wrong?
Therein lies a tale of cunning, intrigue and, some would say, more than a little deceit.
The administration dutifully submitted a 1991 budget that met the Gramm-Rudman target for deficit-reduction - at least on paper.
But even at the time, critics charged that the estimated deficit was wrong.
The administration erred in its assessment for economic growth and the amount of money needed to support it.
The administration included $7.3 billion for rescued failed S&Ls. The estimated spending now
The other big miss was that the administration
One must wonder whether the administration will be far from the mark when the budget year starts.
did not forecast the current recession.
A big uncertainty is the Persian Gulf War. The administration included a placeholder budget amount of $8.2 billion to cover the U.S. share of war costs in 1991.
But Thursday, the administration said it would back Congress for $5 billion cover war costs until September.
The administration budget includes a section detailing what could happen to the deficit if its assumptions for a short, mild recession are too optimistic.
According to what the administration calls a lower-growth scenario, the deficit would increase by another $25.5 billion this year and $40.4 billion in the next decade. The administration is forecasting a deficit of $280.9 billion.
Even with the downside risks, the 1991 deficit is
one with the assumptions being made by many
BRYLW.
"I incredible as it may seem, we think that the administration may have exaggerated the 1991 deficit," said Bruce Steinberg, an economist at Merrill Lynch.
His own forecast puts this year's deficit at $305 billion and 1992's deficit at $340.
Campaigning slow to start With caucuses a year away,candidates nowhere in sight
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Lawyer John Rohrick leaned back in his office chair and mused about a new message for his answering machine: "We have no news today; no one has contacted Iowa."
Roehrick, chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, has been offering that titbit a lot lately.
"I have more phone calls from reporters than anyone else," he said.
Instead of presidential candidates scrambling around every corner of Iowa stumping for the state's first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses, activating them by putting their heads and wondering what happened.
With the caucuses tentatively set for Feb 17,
we're away, there's nary a presidential candidate in the race.
Rumors of a sighting periodically sweep through political circles, but they usually don't pan out.
"You couldn't get a rental car because the media had them all," former Iowa Democratic Chairman Ed Campbell said. "All the watering holes around town were always filled."
It wasn't that way the last time the nation picked a president. At a comparable time in the 1988 presidential election cycle, the state was jammed with candidates — seven Democrats and five Republicans were in the running — and storefront campaign offices dotted De Moine.
West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller swung through the state this month and met with party leaders, denying that he was running for president.
Jesse Jackson has made sporadic forays into the state, and backers talk vaguely about another.
Other than that, it has been quiet. Iowa's quadrennial campaign industry has suffered.
In dollar terms alone, Campbell said, the state paid the nation $300 million journalists and pollsters apologize their role.
All sides agree that the Persian Gulf War is keeping contenders silent, both because they don't like the idea of campaigning while a war rages and for the practical reason that their message probably won't get through.
In addition, Roehrick said candidates may have learned a lesson from the exhausting round of tests.
"They may not want to spend their money this early in the process." he said.
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