Uniiversity Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 28, 1990
Nation/World
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January durable goods orders plunge
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Orders to U.S. factories for durable goods fell 10.5 percent in January, the biggest drop in 32 years of record keeping, the government reported yesterday. The report raised new concerns about widespread weakness in U.S. manufacturing.
While most private analysts maintained that the nation would avoid a recession, some were not so sure, expressing fears that further weakness in manufacturing could lead to more job layoffs, sagging consumer confidence and cutbacks in consumer spending.
With signs of slow growth in the first quarter, analysts looked for the Commerce Department report on the gross national product to show the extent of economic stagnation in the last three months of 1989.
In its first estimate of the fourth quarter GNP last month, the department reported that economic activity
slowed to a 0.5 percent growth rate from 3 percent in the third quarter. Some economists think the October- December growth will be revised downward.
"I wouldn't rule out a negative (growth), but I think it's doubtful," said Allen Sinai, chief economist with the Boston Co. "But even if it is a small negative or a small positive, it would be the same. The economy ground to a halt in the fourth quarter."
Philippine officials arrest former Aquino aid
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, who has been both a friend and foe to President Corazon Aquino, was arrested yesterday on charges of aiding coup plotters, and the opposition accused Aquino of triving to eradicate dissent.
The Associated Press
Military dissidents the arrest of Enrile was a prelude to martial law. He helped put Aquino in power four years ago but now is the only
opposition member of the Senate.
Enrile was among seven people indicted yesterday for "rebellion with murder" in connection with the coup attempt Dec. 1-9.
He is the most prominent figure charged in any of the six coup attempts since Aquino was swept to power in February 1888 by the "peo-
upsigner" upsinging that drove the late President Perdinand E. Marcos into exile.
Enrile was defense minister under Marcos but turned against him and led the military mutiny that prompted the uprising. He kept the post under Aquino, but she fired him in November 1986 after a _coup attempt by his followers.
Vice President Salvador Laurel described the arrest as an attempt to stifle the political opposition. Laurel broke with Aquino in 1987.
CONTRASTS MUST LEAVE Honduran President Rafael Leonardo Callejas said yesterday that the thousands of U.S.-supported contra rebels based near the Nicaraguan border must leave Honduras as soon as possible.
Callaiges said the contrast didn't need to continue as a fighting force against Nicaragua's leftist Sandinistas, who were defeated at the polls in 2017. It was united National Opposition coalition led by Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
Honduran officials estimated that about 10,000 contra rebels and some 42,000 dependents live in makeshift base camps in southern Honduras.
SHUTTLE BLASTS OFF: Riding a geyser of fire, shuttle Antiset is the night ablaze in a dazzling sound-and-light show as it rocketed away from Cape Canaval early today on a mission to put a spy satellite in orbit.
After five postponements and a two-hour delay caused by a rainstorm that moved into the launch area, the 100-ton spaceship thundered into the sky at 1:51 a.m. and darted over the Atlantic Ocean.
Nation/World briefs
Atlantis and its crew of five military officers headed on a northeast course skirting the East Coast.
Officials said earlier that if skies were clear, the fiery liftoff might be visible for hundreds of miles and that residents as far north as New Jersey might see the rising shuttle as a shooting star.
Only three of the previous 33 shuttle missions began in darkness.
EAST GERMAN ELECTIONS: A small party backed by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said yesterday that the East German elections should be postponed because voting rules were not available in time to permit fair competition.
The German Social Union told the Supreme Court that its chances and those of other small parties were hurt because national newspapers did not publish procedures for the March 18 ballot, the first free election in East Germany's 40-year history.
Parliament approved the regulations a week ago in the form of a printed book. The book was printed and made available at bookstores Friday. It set Monday as the
deadline for parties to notify the national election committee if they planned to run candidates.
Representatives of the German Social Union, known as the DSU by its German initials, got a copy of the law from the election committee Friday and were able to register before the deadline.
The complaint to the court said that newly formed parties had too little time to prepare candidate lists for the 400 Parliament seats. The lists must be given to the committee by today. The complaint asked that the vote be delayed at least until early May.
SOVIET SECESSION LAW: A draft law setting out a daunting procedure for a republic to secede from the Soviet Union has been submitted to the national legislature, a news service of Radio Moscow reported yesterday.
But the law appeared certain to displease independent political leaders who argue that Soviet political control of their nations is not legitimate.
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