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Friday, March 1, 1985/The Battalion/Page 9 AND NATION ill SHOE TAKES IT Qpm cannon A , V WHOOP fasts&ak-. j xxmm ^ 91MVUNK. issm 7 0K4f<'...TW£ MOPFlEP 5IAM CVAIK... I by Jeff MacNelly Protestors denounce deportation New highs predicted U.S. trade deficit rises Associated Press WASHINGTON — The United States’foreign trade deficit hit $10.3 billion in January, a 28 percent jump from December, as imports swamped the country’s best export performance in more than three years, the government said Thurs day. Analysts said a rebounding U.S. economy and the strong dollar led to the import gains and they predicted those factors would combine to en sure that America’s trading woes would worsen further this year. The Commerce Department said the January deficit was up from an $8 billion deficit in December as im ports rose 9.2 percent, to a new total of $29.7 billion, the highest monthly figure since last September. Exports rose by a smaller 1.4 per cent in January, but the monthly to tal of $19.4 billion was the highest monthly figure since U.S. firms sold $19.55 billion abroad in September 1981. Analysts discounted part of the export growth, saying it was the re sult of a surge in auto parts sales to Canada following a strike-related slowdown in purchases in previous months. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baidrige, viewing the bleak January figures, predicted the U.S. trade deficit this year would hit $140 bil lion, up sharply from last year’s re cord deficit of $ 123.3 billion. Baidrige blamed the deterioration on the continued strength of the dol lar plus expected further growth in domestic demand. He predicted that exports, which rose 9 percent in 1984 despite the strength of the dol lar, would rise by a similar amount this year. The dollar plunged sharply in frantic trading on Wednesday after a concerted effort by European gov ernments to drive the price down, but it appeared to have stabilized on Thursday and some experts said it could rise again in coming weeks. Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bitterly de nouncing “scandalous policies” of the Reagan administration, more than 200 U.S. religious leaders pleaded Thursday for a halt to de portations of Salvadoran and Guate malan refugees and an end to the jailing of American church workers who try to shelter them. Reacting strongly to recent arrests of Americans who had given refu gees sanctuary in the Southwest — and to convictions of two workers in Texas — the leaders said it was the government that was gnilty of violat ing U.S. law in returning refugees, to face the threat of death in their homelands. The Reagan administration, which strongly supports the govern ments of El Salvador and Guate mala, has sent thousands of refugees back to those countries on grounds that they came to the United States for economic reasons, not out of fear of persecution at home as they claim. However, the church leaders said many of the refugees would appear well qualified for asylum on the 1980 Refugee Act’s grounds of “persecu tion or a well-founded fear of perse cution” at home. They said it was an American’s le gal right, if not obligation, to protect refugees from conditions of death and terror. There may have been “a momentary drop” in Salvadoran as sassinations and disappearances “from thousands to hundreds,” said the Rev. Avery Post, president of the United Church of Christ. But he added, “Is that any comfort at all?” Bush raps Congress for passing farm bill Associated Press AUSTIN — Vice President Georee Bush rapped Congress on Thursday, calling its approval of emergency aid for financially troubled farmers a step in the wron^ direction. Insisting that the federal bud get deficit must be trimmed. Bush criticized Congress for pass ing legislation to provide emer gency farm loans to finance spring planting. “Our federal budget is growing out of control and is endangering the long-run health of our gov ernment,” said Bush, who has been visiting several Texas com munities this week. “We must put this gargantuan of a government on a diet, or it will swallow up our future pros perity. “And yesterday, the United States Congress moved in the wrong direction in terms of get ting this budget deficit under control,” he said. On Wednesday, the U.S. House and Senate passed bills to provide loan help to embattled farmers. The action came as thousands of farmers gathered at Ames, Iowa, to protest Reagan adminis tration farm policies which they said threaten many of them with bankruptcy. Bush s comments Thursday to a joint session of the Texas Legis lature brought a quick, negative reaction from one of those in his audience — Gov. Mark White. The governor said the White House has failed to provide lead ership on farm problems. Asked about Bush’s remarks, White replied, “He doesn’t get to veto it. 1 would hope there isn’t going to be a veto. “What we are faced with is an. emergency situation.” Officals respond to Sandinista offer Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration opened the door T hursday to a new dialogue with Ni caragua but dismissed as probably meaningless an offer by President Daniel Ortega to send home 100 Cu ban military advisers and impose a moratorium on acquiring new arms systems. “It is relevant to ask why they bother,” Vice President George Bush told the Austin Council on Foreign Relations in Texas. He said the 100 advisers are about 1 percent of the Cubans in Nicaragua and that the army cannot absorb new weap ons now. , On the face of it, Bush said in a speech, the steps taken by Ortega “do not appear to represent signifi cant moves.” But Secretary of State George P. Shultz, flying to Ecuador, said he was “perfectly willing” to meet with Ortega next weekend when they at tend the inauguration of Uruguayan President Julio Sanguinetti in Mon tevideo. “I’ll listen carefully to what he says,” Shultz told reporters. Shultz said that in view of the “several thousand” Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua, the withdra wal of 100-would be only a “token” gesture. “But if the token is something that will lead to rather massive reduc tions, that’s something else again,” he said. President Reagan and Shultz, in a possible campaign to gain congres sional approval of renewed U.S. aid to rebels in Nicaragua, had chal lenged the legitimacy of Ortega’s government and suggested they would like to see it overtn-rown. 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