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LOUIS — An “overwhelm ing response rrom communities na tionwide is largely responsible for the delay by General Motors Corp. in picking the site of its $5-billion Sa turn plant, GM President F. James McDonald said Tuesday. However, he said the choice will be made soon. “We’ve received about 1,000 pro posals,” McDonald told a news con ference following his address to the St. Louis Regional Commerce 8c Growth Association. “I didn’t think so many places would respond. “The response has lieen over whelming. I’m not talking about someone picking up the telephone and saying, ‘Please put it here.’ I’m talking about legitimate proposals, some very professional and some not so professional,” he said. FAA gives inspection Vol. 7< Continental Airlines safer 0 Associated Press Several cities in Missouri, includ ing St. Louis, Cape Girardeau and Mexico, have put in bids for the new plant, which will cost S5 billion and employ some 6,000 people to start. McDonald said he expected that the Saturn site selection group would make a recommendation to management in the next six weeks. “It will take about 30 days after that for us to make a decision,” he said. During his speech to several hun dred business leaders, McDonald ex plained the difficulties in choosing a site. “The Saturn team is considering hundreds of factors, and that takes time to evaluate,” he said. “To put it simply, we’ve got to start out right if we’re going to end up right. “The selection processes nearing conclusion,” Me Donald said. “I can tell you that. It’ll be clone soon, and that’s enough said.” WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration declared Continental Airlines a safe airline Tuesday, although it said a detailed inspection of the carrier disclosed sloppy record-keeping and 20 safety violations. The agency said the findings should put to rest allegations of doz ens of serious safety violations at Continental, many of them brought during the past year by the Air Line Pilots Association, whose members are on strike against the carrier. “They’re a safe airline and they’re equipped and staffed to continue to be a safe airline ... It was sloppy re cord-keeping,” said William J. Ay- ton, who supervised a 24-member team of FAA inspectors that exam ined Continental’s operations. The inspection covered six weeks beginning last March and included examination of Continental’s re cords, pilot training, ground and maintenance facilities and dozens of en route inspections. But the FAA finding was chal lenged immediately by the pilots union, whose members struck Conti nental in September 1983 after the airline reorganized under the bank ruptcy laws and nullified its labor contracts. Since then, the airline has rapidly rebuilt its operations, using other pi lots. “We think it’s a continued cover- up on the part of the FAA,” Capt. Harold Martinsen, ALPA’s director of accident investigation, told re porters. He accused the FAA of ig noring various training and proce dural violations at Continental during the past 20 months. But FAA officials, briefing report ers on their findings, called the air line’s safety record on par with that of other carriers and said Continen tal “continues to have an adequate level of safety.” The 20 violations were in addition to nearly 100 “discrepancies" in which inspectors found fault but no violation of regulations, the FAA of ficials said. Many of them might be found at other airlines if they under went a similar inspection, the offi cials said. “Continental probably is oik the most inspected airlines inik dustry," said Homer McClure,i of the FAA’s Western Region,*! has primary responsibility for airline. C0I sp< Among the violations foundna that some pilots worked tooirJ hours in a row, training main were not always current, sa equipment was not prop; checked to assure it was functid f >roperly and some flights did« lave required equipment. Inspectors said there also wot least five incidents where flighld followed improper procedure, though the only violation citedd ciflcally was one in which a creu gan a (light checklist at the wra time. Stir pre Continental's biggest problems record-keeping, including failure] keep proper track of qualifim] and training records of pilotsauds| nior pilots assigned to checkoutnij employees, the FAA said. “ I hey were doing the job bum properly recording it," Aytonsaid I |jl)A 1 Wellies tine spi reaping mlilti-st led to tl pl< ■Phi! me nt A ink harj said tf Clarksv second 1; Thre leaving als to m of amp of arou ■ "Belc Survey: some retailers cutting prices they es< hind a speed 1 Associated Press NEW YORK — A survey of small- and medium-size businesses re vealed a phenomenon that many people thought they’d never see again. Price cutting has become a marketplace way of life. The survey showed that in the first quarter of the year more than one-third of retail establishments cut their prices. Twenty-four percent of wholesalers did the same. The survey, among members of the National Association of Inde pendent Business, showed that the January-March quarter was the 15th straight in which 10 percent or more of all companies actually reduced av erage selling prices. The situation brings up a contro versial question: Is inflation under control? Can an inflation rate of 4 percent qualify as under control? VMS ” Kids eat for If so, you can find many econo mists and investment advisers who believe the economy has entered a period of price stability. For some, the bigger fear is defla tion, and it isn’t uncommon today to find that concern prominently men tioned in reports from independent investment advisers, market re searchers and even some academics. For the most part, though, talk these days is about the likelihood that inflation will remain under con trol for at least another year. The Morgan Bank, for instance, foresees a consumer price rise of just 3.3 percent in the July-Septeniber quarter, and a rate of only 3.7 per cent for the entire year. If so, 1985 will be the fourth straight year of single-digit inflation ~ ?;iT ei To nt in I981 ’ 3 2 percent in 1983, 4.3 percent in 1984 You have to go back to the late 1960s or early 1970s to find four similar years. Coopers 8c Lybrand, an account ing firm, says that price resistance is now' part of the foundation of a new economic environment. The consumer, says Barry Rogs- tand, chief economist, “no longer ac cepts an automatic pass-through of pt ices increases.” As a result, he says, businesses have been forced to cut margins to maintain market share and profit.” Some companies are failing in their attempts at the latter. For many of them, the presence of imports has eliminated margins and provoked them into lobbying Congress for re strictions on foreign goods. That situation also tends to hide what some consider to be the Achil les heel of the recovery and expan sion. Foreign goods, it is argued, are priced relatively lower becaustl the dollar’s high valuation iniitj national trade. That high valuation, the) tend, is a result in part of!| American interest rates, and I high interest rates are a consequa of the federal government’s cal ued budget excesses. Uncorrected, it is argued, sudl situation will inevitably underal the economy. There are, however, several p live f orces at work also. Organized labor, for example! been tar more cooperative 4 management than it had beenici decade of the 1970s. ord; among indiani prod in ■ The der to floial ai for the ■ The tion, di ■Mid the arr includi of the 1 cals an ufactui methat “Thi ipate r with stt •. Si no 1982, r chemic Used to Many companies have greatlfi creased their productivity, whklii oiratori lows them to exercise restrain® prices. 9tXt! Its Wendy’s summer special just for kids. 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