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Page 14AThe Battalion/Thursday, February 14, 1985 SHOE by Jeff MacNelly The CosmoFishhawk Guide to the Home Computer Step One- Locate your Computer. Middle East U.S., Soviet Union to discuss troubled area Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States and Soviet Union will sit down to discuss the Middle East next week, but U.S. officials tried Wednesday to dampen expectations in advance by insisting they expect no change in Soviet policies. Nevertheless, the two-day session in Vienna beginning Tuesday rep resents an increase in the dialogue on such troublespots as Afghanistan, southern Lebanon, the Iran-Ifaq war and the Arab-Israeli conflict. “These talks should not be seen as negotiations,” State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb cautioned after announcing the discussions. “They are merely an exchange of views,” he said. “They do not rep resent any change in the U.S. posi- Associated Press WASHINGTON — The federal government, the world’s largest long-distance telephone customer, started shopping Wednesday for $4.2 billion worth of service by open ing the bidding process for a con tract that will go to one — and only one — vendor. The General Services Administra tion, the government’s procurement tion regarding issues affecting the region, nor do we expect them to re sult in changes in Soviet positions.” The U.S. delegation will be led by Richard W. Murphy, assistant secre tary of state for the Near East. The Soviet team will be led by Vladimir P. Polyakov, who is Murphy’s coun terpart in the Soviet foreign min istry. “The discussions are to contribute to our own mutual understanding of those problems and are part of our ongoing effort to engage the Soviets in the full agenda of issues, includ ing regional questions, human rights, and bilateral issues as well as arms control,” said Kalb. Kalb said the objective of the ses sion was to “help avoid miscalcula tion and to reduce the potential risk officer, asked telephone executives to come up with a plan for replacing the 22-year-old Federal Telecom munications System, essentially pro vided by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. What the government wants is a one-stop telecommunications com pany, operated by a single prime contractor, that can provide and manage a total system service for 1.3 of U.S.-Soviet confrontation.” President Reagan, asked about the reported agreement between PLO chief Yasser Arafat and Jor dan’s King Hussein on a so-called “framework for peace,” replied: “it seems as if some progress has been made... so, we’re being optimistic about it.” But he said the administration was “definitely not in support” of hold ing an international conference on the Middle East, which Israel also opposes. Some reports say such a conference is part of the “frame work” Hussein and Arafat devised for dealing with the Palestinian problem. The Soviets generally side with the Arabs against Israel and have no diplomatic relations with Jerusalem. million government workers for 10 years starting in 1989. Those federal employees and their computers talked long-distance for 1.5 billion minutes last year at a cost of $424 million. AT&T, which has 88 percent of the government’s long-distance busi ness, is expected to be among those bidding on the contract. Retail sales rose slightly in January Associated Press WASHINGTON — Retail sales rose 0.7 percent in January as a big spurt in auto buying overcame sales declines at clothing and department stores, the government said Wednes day. While the Reagan administration hailed the increase as a signal of fur ther economic expansion, many pri vate analysts said the gain was not nearly as strong as the overall num ber would indicate. The Commerce Department re port said sales by U.S. retailers climbed to a seasonally adjusted $110.7 billion in January despite re cord cold weather in many parts of the country. The increase compared with a 0.5 percent decline in December and a 1.5 percent gain in November. Sales by auto dealers rose a sharp 4 percent in January, a gain attrib uted in part to consumers satisfying demand for popular models which were in short supply before. Without the big auto gain, retail sales would have actually edged down 0.1 per cent duringjanuary. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, dismissing the lopsided na ture of the report, proclaimed Jan uary sales “very good” and said pros pects for coming months looked even better because of recent gains in income, continued high levels of consumer confidence and lower in terest rates. But Allen Sinai, chief economist for Shearson Lehman-American Ex press, said the January sales figure suggests that the retail side of the economy is only in a mild upturn. “This points to a continuing ad vance in consumer spending, but only at a modest pace,” he said. Sandra Shaber, director of con sumer economics for Chase Econ ometrics, a private forecasting firm, termed the non-auto sales perfor mance “anemic” but said it was not a signal of an impending slump in spending. “Consumer demand is not going to grow like it did last year, but there is still room for moderate expan sion,” she said. She predicted consumer spend ing, after adjusting for inflation, would rise by about 3.5 percent this year, compared with a 5 percent in crease in 1984. Solidarity activists held Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Polish security police detained seven prominent Solidarity activists to day after raiding a meeting in a Gdansk apartment that was at tended by Lech Walesa, an aide to the Solidarity leader said. Walesa was released immedi ately after about 20 plainclothes and uniformed policemen forced their way into an apartment in the Baltic port city to break up the meeting of Solidarity leaders, said Grzegorz Grzelak, a Walesa aide. Cartoonist uses Doonesbury to comment on Corn's flight Associated Press WASHINGTON — Cartoonist Garry Trudeau calls it “the most extraordinary junket in the history of Con gress,” but Sen. Jake Garn isn’t offended by the down- to-earth humor about his impending space shuttle trip. “That (criticism) was raised almost from the moment he was asked to entertain the possibility of a flight,” said Bill Hendrix, Garn’s press secretary. ‘He takes his mis sion much too seriously to be bothered by that.” The Republican lawmaker from Utah, readying for a four-day mission scheduled for blastoff March 3, was in training in Houston and unavailable to reporters who tried to reach him Tuesday and Wednesday. But Garn has seen the comics. “We showed him (the strip) and he thought it was pretty funny,” Hendrix said, referring to Monday’s in stallment, which noted that one of Garn’s main jobs will be to conduct experiments in motion sickness. In the strip, Garn is interviewed by Doonesbury tele vision correspondent Roland Hedley aboard a KC-135 military aircraft being flown to simulate weightlessness. Hedley is investigating whether Garn, “no stranger to weightlessness,” is qualified for his mission —“to throw up on request.” As a floating Hedley poses that question, an off- frame voice warns, ‘Heads up!” In Tuesday’s installment of the strip, Hedley tells Garn that “many people feel your trip is the most ex traordinary junket in the history of Congress.” The reporter suggests that a poet or essayist would be better able to tell the public about space since Garn, like many members of Congress, would have his staff write the speeches about the flight. Hendrix said that won’t happen. “Anybody who knows Jake Garn knows that he never follows a text,” even if his staff has one prepared. ‘It wouldn’t matter what we wrote —Jake Garn speaks for himself,” he said. 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