University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 18, 1990
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Inflation reaches highest level since 1982
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices, fueled by sharp increases in clothing, housing and medical costs, shot up 0.5 percent in March, pushing inflation to the highest level since 1982, the government said yesterday.
Private economists saw the unexpectedly brisk advance in the Labor Department's Consumer Price Index as a discouraging sign that inflation was not retreating as they had hoped.
The inflation rate is "dangerous and potentially devastating for financial markets and the economy," said Allen Sinai, chief economist of the Boston Co.
Through the first three months of the year, inflation has risen at an annual rate of 8.5 percent, the fastest quarterly increase since a 10.1 percent increase in the spring of 1982.
Part of the surge earlier in the year was attributed to an unusually cold December that froze crops along the Gulf Coast and sent fuel oil prices skyward. But March declines in energy and fruit and vegetable prices were not enough to offset widespread increases elsewhere.
The March figures are "a reminder that inflation is a chronic problem, that it's not going away and it's not getting better," said Cynthia Latta, an economist at DRI-MeCraw Hill.
While inflation is expected to slow in coming months, the March figure sent some economists scurrying to revise upward their forecast for the entire year. Some said consumer prices could rise by 5 percent for all of 1990. That would be up from a 4.6 percent increase in 1989 and the highest annual rate since 1981.
Civil rights activist dies
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, who created the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr. but decades later enraged the slain leader's supporters by writing about his alleged infidelity, died yesterday.
Abernathy's heart stopped while he was being prepared for a lung scan at Crawford Long Hospital, said hospital spokesman Tisha Burland.
"What they were trying to do was detect if there was a blood clot in the lungs . . . but they never got to see," Burial said.
Abernathy, who cradled the fallen King's bloodied head after he was struck down by a bullet in 1968, was 64.
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Abernathy was taken to an operating room, but he was pronounced dead there at 12:10 p.m. before doctors could begin emergency life support surgery.
Burland quoted Kenneth Scheidt, a nuclear medicine specialist who was present for the scheduled lung scan, as saying that the test never began and that it could not have contributed to Abernathy's death.
Abernathy spent his last months under bitter criticism from his colleagues for passages in his 1989 autobiography, "And The Walls Came Tumbling Down." He wrote that King had spent time with two women and that he had a violent argument with one in the 24 hours before his 1968 assassination.
Bush's call to research environment criticized
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush called for more research on global warming yesterday but ran into a storm of criticism from Europeans who argued for action at an international White House conference.
Bush said he hoped the conference, attended by delegates from 19 nations, would prompt international research and inject economic issues into the debate about the greenhouse effect.
"Gaps in knowledge must not be used as an excuse for worldwide inaction," said Klaus Topfer, West German environmental minister.
"Environmental policies that
ignore the economic factors and the human factors are destined to fail," he said, maintaining that some scientists are in disagreement about the impact of manmade pollutants on the temperature of the globe.
Many of the European participants, especially the West Germans and the Dutch, said the conference agenda was narrowly arranged to prevent open discussions of policy aimed at dealing with global warming.
Topfer said the German delegation would pursue such discussions.
"The gravity of the situation requires immediate, determined action." he said.
FRAKK SEEKS RE-ELECTION: Rep. Barney Frank, whose personal and political life was rocked last year by the disclosure of his relationship with a male prostitute, announced yesterday that he will seek re-election.
The Democrat had intended to wait until the House ethics committee released a report about questions surrounding his involvement with prostitute Stephen Gobie but said the election calendar pushed him to act sooner.
Frank must file nominating petitions by May 8.
Frank, 50, said he also came to the conclusion that his effectiveness as a congressmen had not been hurt by his relationship with Gobie that he said ended in 1986.
No other Democrats have announced that they are running for the seat, the Fourth Congressional District in suburban Boston. Two little-known Republicans, Jim Nutzo, a physician, and John Soto, a telephone company accountant, have announced their candidacies.
SHUTTLE LUFTOFF SET: Space shuttle Discovery's launch next week with the Hubble Space Telescope may be moved up a day if a new power unit tests well and the change doesn't hamper preparations for the next shuttle mission, NASA said yesterday.
scrubbed because of a faulty auxili-
rv power unit.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the delay has pushed back the launch of space shuttle Columbia to at least mid-May. Columbia originally was scheduled to lift off May 9 on a nine-day mission to scan space with a $100 million observatory called Astro.
CONTRAS LEAVE HONDURAS:
President Bush assured Honduran President Rafael Callejas yesterday that the contra camps near the Nicaraguan border will be dismantled by the time Daniel Ortega steps down as president of Nicaragua on April 25, a U.S. official said yesterday.
Honduras is pressing for the rebels' speedy repatriation.
Assistant Secretary of State Bernard Arson said ,meanwhile, that it was doubtful all the contrast would be made to the time Violeta Chamorro took office.
Under peace accords reached by the five presidents of the region, the contras are to demobilize into security zones inside Nicaragua and disarm under U.N. supervision.
Aronson said that, 3,000 to 5,000 contra fighters remain in the Honduran camps, down from a peak of 12,000. In addition, the camps house 40,000 family members and Honduras is home to about 125,000 refugees who have fled Nicaragua, Aronson said.
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