University. Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 24, 1990
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S. Africa to release Mandela
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Black leader Nelson Mandela may be asked to mediate between the government and the outlawed African National Congress after his release from prison, the justice minister said yesterday.
In an interview with the governing National Party's newspaper, Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee said the question no longer was whether the 71-year-old ANC leader would be freed,
The ANC's exiled leaders, at
but when and under what circumstances.
Coosteem was reacting to speculation that Mandela will be freed within weeks, but he gave no hints about a date. President F.W. de Klerk is expected to elaborate in a speech opening Parliament on Feb. 2.
Mandela, the most popular leader among South Africa's Blacks, is serving a life term for planning the rebellion. The ANC's exiled leaders, at a
Beeld, a pro-government Johannesburg newspaper, said yesterday that Mandela's release would be accompanied by legalization of the CEC.
conference last week, expressed interest in negotiations but said the government must meet its preconditions. These include Mandela's release, lifting of bans on the ANC and other opposition groups, lifting of the state of emergency imposed in 1986 and a halt to political trials.
Personal income grows 8.5 percent
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Personal income growth in the Rocky Mountain region topped the national average for the first time in six years in the third quarter of 1899, whereas it slowed in New England, the government reported yesterday. The national growth rate was 8.5 percent.
The Commerce Department also said the Plains states registered the fastest growth rate of 9.2 percent, followed by a 9.1 percent advance in
the Far West.
The department said Rocky Mountain income in the July-September quarter grew 8.7 percent compared to the same period of 1988.
It was the first time the Rockies registered above the national average since 1983, reflecting increased strength in manufacturing and mining, the department's Bureau of Economic Analysis said.
The Plains income growth was attributed to rebounding farm
income after the drought and to strong durable and non-durable manufacturing.
States with the fastest growth in personal income were: North Dakota, 16.9 percent; Alaska, 15.3 percent; and South Dakota, 13.4 percent.
States with the slowest growth included Kansas, 7.5 percent; Nebraska, 7.4 percent; and Oklahoma, 6.8 percent.
The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials rose 14.87 to 2,615.32 after a 77-point drop on Monday. The widely recognized barometer fluctuated in the 55-point range, dropping slightly near the end of trading.
MARKET STILL JUMPY: Prices were widely mixed in a choppy session on Wall Street yesterday as pessimism about interest rates and corporate profits lingered in the stock market.
Declining issues outnumbered advancing ones by a margin of about 5 to 4 in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, with 666 stocks rising, 864 rising and 468 unchanged.
DEFICIT INCREASES AGAIN: The federal budget deficit increased $14.64 billion in December, meaning the deficit so far this fiscal year already has reached more than two-thirds permitted by the Gramm-Rudman act for the entire year, the Treasury Department said yesterday.
Combined with the $55.05 billion October-November deficit, the imbalance at the end of December totaled $69.69 billion, compared to a $67.58 billion deficit for the same period of fiscal 1989.
Although the government has a lower deficit ceiling this year, it has spent 3.1 percent more than it did in the first three months of fiscal 1989.
World Briefs
CIA DIRECTOR TALKS: The director of the Central Intelligence Agency told Congress yesterday that Eastern Europe's tenuous push for democracy has cut the Soviet threat to the West and that "we can probably expect a continued diminution."
William Webster, in an unusual appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Eastern European nations' links to Moscow had been radically changed. NORIGRIA CACHEI. The Pentagon made during the Panama invasion that U.S. soldiers had found a large cache of cocaine in a guest house used by Gen. Manuel Noriegia.
"It was not cocaine," said Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall.
However, Hall told reporters that he could not identify with any certainty what the substance was, saying he'd been supplied with "less than a cup" of oil by U.S. military officials in Panama. YUOSLAVIAN COMMUNISM: The
national Communist Party congress in Yugoslavia was suspended yesterday after the liberal Slovenians walked out, and it appeared unlikely to reconvene. A prominent newspaper said the party was dead.
Slovenia's delegation left the meeting Monday night, and the party Politburo announced early yesterday that the congress had adjourned indefinitely. Slovenian officials said they would not return to the meeting, and the governor of Croatia, Yugoslavia's second-largest province, supported them.
E. GERMANS RALLY: More than 10,000 skilled workers held a rally Tuesday to denounce communism for killing East German craftsmanship and demand free-market reforms to revive it.
"We absolutely and unconditionally need conversion to a full market economy," Burkhard Schmidt, spokesman for the Craftmen's Union, said. "Many of those attending also favored reunification with West Germany.
"Better to close for four hours than forever," said Lutz Scheibner, an electronics repairman. "We need to show the government we know what needs to be done."
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