University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 30, 1990
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Brian T. Schoeni/KANSAN
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KU students wait in long lines at the Enrollment Center in Strong Hall. The last day of add-drop is tomorrow.
A diplomat said what little increase there was in consumer goods could be attributed to inflation, a greater emphasis on producing alcohol and imports from the West.
MOSCOW — New government figures have confirmed what Soviet shoppers already know: Most industries in 1980 failed miserably at fulfilling President Mikhail Gorbachev's promise of more consumer goods.
The Associated Press
1989 proved a tough year for Gorbachev's economy
Wheat farmers had a good year, but they were about the only ones in agriculture, according to statistics printed in most newspapers this weekend. After an investment of $110 billion in agriculture in 1989, food production rose just 1 percent, not the 6.6 percent expected.
Most of that small increase came in grain, sugarbeets and potatoes. Soviet consumers will find the increase in the last category hard to comprehend because the normally ubiquitous potatoes are hard to find and are several times more expensive on the farmers' markets this winter.
Alcohol production leaped 19 percent as authorities eased sharp restrictions on alcohol production imposed by Gorbachev in 1985 to try to cut the Soviets' severe problem with alcoholism. The restrictions caused long lines at liquor stores, and housewives trying to buy a bottle of champagne were furious at being forced to queue up for hours with obnoxious drunks. Gorbachev's crackdown, however, has transformed public attitudes toward drunkenness from chortling acceptance to disapproval.
Bureaucrats' desperate move to import food, medicine, cosmetics, soap and other consumer goods from the
The grain harvest reached 211 million metric tons again, a good year like 1866 and 1967. But the new program of paying farmers in sought-after foreign currency for growing extra hard wheat brought in just 223,000 tons, the reports said. Soviet media said farmers in the program had too much red tape and not enough cash.
Strikes and lack of materials caused 40 million worker days to be lost in 1898, according to V.N. Kjirchenko, chairman of the government statistical commission and author of an article in the current issue of Government
Authorities hoped the program would allow them to obtain grain more cheaply than in the West, but they still had to import 36 million tons, 1 million tons more than in the previous year, according to the statistics.
Agriculture particularly suffered in areas with ethnic violence and strikes. Vegetable output dropped 27 percent in Azerbaijan and 16 percent in Armenia, two regions have been engaged in a territorial dispute for two years.
The Azerbaijani blockade against Armenia for two months in the fall brought much of the Armenian economy to a halt for lack of energy and materials. The Azerbaijanis have repeated the blockade in this month's ethnic violence.
HARDEE'S HARASSMENT!
Lawrence police are looking for two men who pointed a gun at the assistant manager of a local restaurant Friday after the men made a mess of the place and were asked to leave.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesman, said two white males in
Economists blamed irregular supply deliveries, resistance to government orders and failure to fulfill contracts for a mere 1.7 percent rise in industrial production, Tass said.
West to satisfy citizens who were fed up with long lines in shoddy domestic goods led to a 24 percent increase in imports from the West, Tass said yesterday.
New McDonald's is big venture
Restaurant teaches Soviets the Western ways of farming, eating
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — McDonald's imported seeds, taught Soviet potato farmers how to increase their yields, built its own food factory, spent $50 million and waited 14 years before selling a single burger in Moscow.
their mid-30s entered Hardeses, 2030 West 32rd St., at 1:50 a.m. and made negative comments about the restaurant's curly fries.
The men then littered the eating area with ketchup and mustard, prompting the manager to escort them to their car, Mulvenon said.
George Cohon, chairman of McDonald's of Canada, doesn't have any idea if or when he will recapture his investment after the
opening of the first franchise in the Soviet Union tomorrow.
"I just know I'm going to take those rubles and build another restaurant," he said.
The restaurant, located near Pushkin Square, is the biggest McDonald's in the world and is intended to serve 1,250 people an hour.
rubles, so that ordinary Soviets,
not just privileged foreigners, can
eat there. A second McDonald's
out of a planned 20 will sell for
hard currency to foreigners.
Unlike other foreign ventures the restaurant will sell its food for
Anybody who thinks it was easy to get this far needs only glance at the abandoned storefront a few miles away, its "Pizza Hut" sign mocking Pepsico's proud announcement that it would open a restaurant in Moscow in 1988.
Briefs
When they reached the car, one of the men pulled a long-barrelled gun from his car and pointed it at the manager. The man did not fire the gun, and the two of them left.
Mulvenon said the manager thought that the men had been drinking. He said the manager got the
license plate number of the car.
Pollice found the car at an apartment but have been unable to contact the individuals, Mulvenon said.
ENROLLMENT DATES: Students should remember several key dates regarding enrollment that are listed
Tomorrow also is the last day students can receive a 90 percent refund for dropping regular 16-week classes. Students can receive a 50
percent refund on the same classes until Feb. 14. No refunds are given after that date.
Between Monday and Feb. 16, students may elect the credit/no credit grade option.
in the Spring 1990 Timetable.
■ Tomorrow is the last day students may add courses, change sections or enroll late.
Feb. 15 is the last day to submit applications for degrees.
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