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The
WASHINGTON
economy is growing at a strong
7.2 percent rate in the first
quarter this year, topping the 5
percent increase in the final
months of 1983, according to a
government report released
Tuesday.
“The economy is still on a
powerful roll,” said Martin
Feldstein, president of the
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nomic Advisers. “I’m not wor
ried about overheating at this
time since a large part of the in
creased output is going into in
ventory accumulation and price
pressures remain under con
trol.”
The latest economic figures,
expressed in seasonally ad
justed annual rates, were con
tained in a “flash” report — a
tentative forecast of the gross
national product that is pre
pared four times a year by the
Commerce Department.
The gross national product is
the value of all the nation’s
goods and services. Almost all
the figures associated with it are
up, except for trade data show
ing the United States is continu
ing to lose production to over
seas firms.
The latest GNP projection
marks the first quarter of 1984
as the strongest since last year’s
third quarter, when the GNP
grew at a 7.6 percent annual
rate. Last year’s second quarter
was the recovery peak, with the
GNP expanding at a 9.7 percent
rate.
Losses were reported by fi
nancial firms ranging from in
surance companies to banks,
but heavy industry, including
automakers, showed a profit.
Analysts explain the surge in
several ways: buyers returned
to stores in January, builders
restarted the housing boom,
and auto plants sped up pro
duction.
However, February was a
slower month than January and
March carries an additional
burden of higher interest rates,
with Monday’s half point in
crease in the prime rate raising
it to 11.5 percent.
Tuesday’s report show
mild increase in inflation fn
3.9 in the fourth quarterofl
year to 4.4 percent so fat
1984.
“It certainly is a midwimi
boom,” said private econom
Roger Brinner, speaking
the Data Resources Inc.
firm.
The economy
fourth consecutive quartet
above-average growth,
ahead of the 4 percent 1
even” point that is considtj
necessary to shrink the w
ployment rate.
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threatened Tuesday to shoot
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warned the leaders of Egypt
and Sudan that former leaders
“shortened their lives” by ac
cepting American help.
In Cairo, however, Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak
warned that his country was
prepared “to do anything” to
defend itself and would not
stand by “with folded arms” if
Libya violated Egyptian or Su
danese borders.
The war of words in the re
gion came just one day after two
U.S. AWACS radar surveillance
planes arrived in Egypt to help
track Libyan planes.
Mubarak told reporters in
Cairo the unarmed radar
planes would initially fly only in
Egyptian air space. The
AWACS — an acronym for Air
borne Warning and Control
System — are usually escorted
on their flights by jet fighters
and interceptors.
The planes, with their circu
lar domes, are able to stay
within friendly air space while
their radar, with a range of up
to 350 miles, tracks planes
across the border. It was the
third time in 13 months the
planes have been sent to Egypt.
Sudan and Egypt, which are
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1976, have accuiL 1 l j* n ^
Moammar Khadafy's® 11 e ducdtioi
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on a suburb of the Sundam
capital that killed five pttj
and injured 14.
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TU-22 bomber missed Sudi
only radio station, which was!
apparent target
Libya, the only countryini
region flying the TU-22,
denied it was responsible^
tire attack, claiming it was flij |
by dissident Sudanese air I
officers, and warned it wo
react to any American air ac
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A
Continental Airline pilot taxiing
his airplane for takeoff Tues
day struck a snowplow and
damaged his wing at Kansas
City International Airport, au
thorities said.
None of the 71 passengers on
Flight No. 335 bound for
Denver were injured, authori
ties said. But the city worker
driving the snowplow was
treated and released at an
nearby hospital.
The incident occurred at
11:15 a.m., said Cliff Trainer,
city manager of the Kansas City
Continental office.
The airplane remained at the
airport until maintenance and
engineering crews were flown
in to assess the amount of dam
age, he said. All the passengers
were given other flights to get
to their destinations.
“It (snowplow) backed into
us,” said Continental spokes
man Bruce Hicks in Houston.
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been released from the gate by
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were taxiing out from the
area, a snowplow, which
well off to our left, suddi
started in reverse at hil
speed.
Both the airplane and
snowplow were damaged,
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maneuver to try to swinj
wing out of the way ani
snowplow dipped the w
Hicks said.
Icy rain and snow has
ered most of the Metro’
for several days, lea’
constant gray skies and ki
ing power out to many
dents.
“It’s a very unique accidi
Trainer said. “Snow pi
really just don’t run into
planes... it was really an «■) vote on pn
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