Garage Sale
WHEN: Saturday, September 21
9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
WHERE: The Wesley Foundation
201 Tauber
(behind Pizza Hut at Northgate)
WHAT: Furniture, Games, Books, Clothes,
Luggage, Sports Equipment, and
Lots of other good items!11
THE ATTIC.
Antiques
20% off*
All furniture, glassware & collectables!
* must present ad for discount * excluding sale items
118 S. Bryan
Bryan TX, 77801
Bud (’74) & Betty Sparks
(409) 822-7830
Good thru Sept. 30, 1985 jues -Sat
^ ^ ^ ^ 10:30-5:30
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Labor leaders get arrested
Siege declared in Bolivia
Associated Press
LA PAZ, Bolivia — The govern
ment declared a state of siege Thurs
day and arrested labor leaders who
refused to end a 16-day-old general
strike against a wage freeze intended
to fight inflation of 14,000 percent.
President Victor Paz Estenssoro’s
conservative government told tens
of thousands of strikers they would
be fired unless they returned to
work, but many stayed home.
Riot police raided the Congress
building, five union halls, a radio
station, San Andres University and
the state mining company offices in
La Paz during the night, according
to union activists who escaped.
The Interior Ministry said 150 la
bor activists, including the 18 exec
utive committee members of the Bo
livian Workers Central, the leftist
national labor federation, were sent
into internal exile.
Soldiers raided a textile factory in
La Paz and fired on striking workers
who had beaten up four policemen,
witnesses said. They said two strikers
were wounded by the police gunfire.
The strike leaders had begun a
hunger strike Tuesday against the
government austerity program and
were camped on blankets in union
halls or workplaces.
Reporters later saw Juan Lechin,
72, the labor federation’s founder
and executive secretary, put into a
car by policemen at the Interior
Ministry and driven away.
A privately owned television sta
tion broadcast an interview later
with Edgardo Vasquez, who identi
fied himself as clandestine leader of
the labor federation and urged
workers to continue the strike.
Paz Estenssoro declared a 90-day
state of siege throughout the coun
try, empowering police to hold peo
ple without charge for 48 hours or
move them to internal exile in re
mote areas.
Paz Estenssoro’s decree said the
siege was required “to save Bolivia
from the scourge of hyperinflation
that has endangered its very exis
tence.”
“A political minority entrenched
in union leadership posts, while pro
moting an illegal strike, is trying to
subvert the authority of the state,” it
said.
World Bank: Developing nations
get hurt by protectionist sentiment
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The eco
nomic plight of many developing
countries eased somewhat last year,
but a growing tide of protectionist
sentiment threatens to reverse the
small gains, the World Bank said
Thursday.
“By the dismal standards of the
early 1980s, 1984 was a good year
for developing countries,” said the
bank.
The World Bank said the threat
of protectionist measures in the
United States and other industrial
countries was a “major concern”
since developing countries critically
need export sales to pay off their
debt burdens and promote further
economic growth.
The bank’s annual report said
economic growth in developing
countries averaged 3.8 percent last
year, up substantially from the 2.1
percent growth rates in both 1982
and 1983. Many African nations, hit
by drought and famine, suffered
further declines in economic activity
last year while Latin American na
tions, seeking to cope with severe
debt problems, enjoyed a major
turnaround.
Growth in Latin American coun
tries averaged 2.8 percent last year
following two years of decline, al
though tne report noted that this ad
vance barely kept ahead of the in
crease in population.
“The United States has provided
the main stimulus to the global re
covery,” the bank said.
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