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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 30, 1990
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Poland's new party elects leader
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Former Communists yesterday elected a 35-year-old sports official to lead a new party in its quest for popularity in the East bloc's first democracy.
But one day after its founding, the new Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland was accused of "political arrogance" by Solidarity leader Lech Walesa for taking over the holdings amassed by the Communists during their rule.
The party also contended with a breakaway group of reformers, who were organizing a rival Social-Democratic Union that would have nothing to do with the old party's leadership or assets.
Parliamentarians for the Communist Party, which was officially disbanded early yesterday, reflected motion among the remnants of their party.
Twenty Communist deputies lined
Founders favor leftist opinions, ties with emerging democracies
In lapsedips, Aleksander Kwasniewski became the Social Democracy Party's chairman and Leszek Miller, a 43-year-old former Communist Party secretary, its general secretary.
bureaucracy.
Kwasniewski received 1,409 votes for chairman and Miller 920 votes for general secretary out of about 1,200 votes cast.
The two men immediately were embraced and congratulated by Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, the first member of the dissolved Communist Party.
"We feel very moved by this election, and also terrified, because we are aware of the immense tasks." Kwasniewski told the delegates.
Kwasniewski, who leads the state sports and youth committee, said he wanted a party capable of rallying leftist opinions and winning popular
backing after the demise of the Communist Party.
TV reported that red flags were removed from party buildings nationwide.
His party, in a resolution adopted yesterday, called for "further strengthening of ties" with the emerging democracies.
He said the latter case described the old Communist Party, which was in disarray after ceding power to a Solidarity-led government in August.
"The most important thing is votes, not members. The better party is one with 100,000 members and (capable of getting) 1 million votes, than a party with 1 million members and only 100,000 votes." he said.
The old Communist Party claimed to have 1.9 million members, only a portion of which were expected to join either the Social Democracy Party or the Social-Democratic Union.
WASHINGTON — Consumer spending posted its largest increase in three years in 1989, the government reported yesterday, and analysts said robust incomes should result in continued purchasing strength in the first quarter of 1990.
Incomes should strengthen 1990 buying
The Commerce Department said spending totaled $4.37 trillion, a 7.3 percent gain over 1988 and the sharpest advance since a 6.1 percent increase in 1988.
The Associated Press
At the same time, the government reported personal incomes rose 9 percent to $4.43 trillion last year, up from 7.6 percent in 1988 and the
"You look at those numbers and you kind of wonder why everybody was talking about recession," remarked Michael K. Evans, head of a Washington forecasting organization. "Those were pretty good numbers, especially the growth in income, which was quite robust."
fastest advance since rising 9.5 percent in 1984.
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Despite the increases in 1989 incomes and consumption, the year ended on a sluggish note, with economic growth held back by high interest rates resulting from Federal Reserve efforts to slow inflation by keeping a tight grip on credit.
The difference between 1899 earnings and purchases helped boost peoples' savings rate, savings as a percent of disposable income, to 5.5 percent from 4.2 percent in 1988. It was the highest rate since 1894's 6.1 percent.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that the gross national product grew only 0.5 percent in the October-December quarter, down from a 3 percent advance in the third quarter. The report on the GNP, the nation's total output of goods and services, included a rare decline of 0.1 percent in spending in the fourth quarter.
AZERBAIJANB RETURN: Many Azerbaijan heeded their leaders' call to "put our grief aside" and return to work in their capital yesterday, but the defense minister said Soviet troops could not be withdrawn vet from the Caucasus.
The official news agency Tass said that most of Baku's businesses resumed work yesterday, and mass transit was operating on most routes.
Without providing details, Defense Minister Dmirit T. Yazov said extremists had tried to keep workers away from their jobs in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital. He said that there were weapons still in the hands of extremists and that militants had attacked government buildings.
QUAYLE GOES TO JAMICA! Vice President Dan Qauley wassures yesterday that Panama would reform its banking practices to deter drug-money laundering, but public details were suggested by a president suggested any changes be "not that profound."
Quayle later lter to Jamaica as he wound up a three-country tour to Latin America and the Caribbean, during which leaders in the region criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq, pressed for withdrawal of U.A. troops.
Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley said his government was not ready to agree to U.S. urging to recognize the Panamanian government of Guillermo Endara. Manley also complained
that potential U.S. cuts in aid would hinder his country's ability to fight illegal drugs.
Jamaica was the last stop of Quayle's three-day trip that focused on regional ramifications of the Dec. 20 U.S. military invasion of Panama.
ALBAMIANI RALLY: Ethnic Albanians rallied by the thousands yesterday to demand free elections and an end to a year of martial war in Koso province, Yugoslavia. Police fired tear gas and a water cannot to disperse one protest.
In Liplian, about 10 miles south of Pristina, 1,000 demonstrators stoned the local Communist Party headquarters before police managed to disperse them, Radio Belgrade said. The radio also said shots were heard in Liplian, but no casualties were reported.
Hundreds of police appeared on the streets of Pristina, the provincial capital, as reinforcements poured into the southern province
At least six people have died since Wednesday in violent confrontations.
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The unrest is a result of the Serbian republic's moves to retain tighter control over the province, where the majority of the people are ethnic Albanians.The Christian Serb minority in Kosovo believes the mainly Moslem Albanians are trying to force them out.
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