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World and Nation
Elections used as propaganda tool
South Africa’s far right gaining
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— White-supremacist parties on
South Africa’s far right said Thurs
day their broatl gains in five mid
term elections proved there is a
surge in white opposition to sharing
power with blacks.
The governing National Parly of
President P.W. Botha, campaigning
on a platform of gradual race re
form, won four of the five Parlia
ment seats at stake in Wednesday’s
voting but lost ground everywhere
to the far right.
Two ultraconservative parties
slashed the Nationalists’ past major
ity in four districts and took a seat
away from Botha’s party in the
Orange Free State for the first time
since 1953.
The National Party, in power
since 1948, has a huge margin in
Parliament, and parliamentary con
trol was not an issue.
Leaders of the far-right Conserva
tive Party and the Reformed Na
tional Party said voters showed an
ger over government failure to quell
14 months of bloody rioting over
apartheid as well as dissatifaction
with the economy and the govern
ment’s approach to race reforms.
Pro-government and liberal news
papers noted that the five districts
were largely blue-collar and rural
and said the far-right had never
been in a more favorable position
than in Wednesday’s vote.
The far-right’s victorious candi
date, Louis Stofberg of the Re
formed National Party, had made an
issue of a couple in his town of Sosol-
burg who married this year after the
National Party repealea laws barring
interracial sex and marriage.
Stofberg’s pamphlets said the
white man and his mixed-race wife
“could live in your street . . . and
their children could go to your
schools.”
Botha said he was satisfied with
the outcome of the elections, “con
sidering the difficult economic con
sequences of the recession, the
drought (and) the present unrest sit
uation in certain parts of the coun
try.
“We will have to continue to work
and build toward a peaceful South
Africa for all population groups in a
responsible manner,” he said, sug
gesting he would not he deterred by
the far right's gains.
Andries Treurnicht was jubilant
over the gains of his Conservatives
and the allied Reformed National
Party, which won a seat in Parlia
ment for the first time since its for
mation in 1969.
While the National Party actually
increased its votes slightly from
26,274 four years ago to 27,062, the
two far-right parties jumped from
6,899 in 1981 general elections to
22,547 on Wednesday.
Nearly 15,000 additional voters
went to the polls in a heavy turnout,
and nearly all the new votes went to
the ultraconservatives.
“1 think the main reason is (Bot
ha’s) swing away from white self-de
termination to power-sharing and
mixed government,” Treurnicht
said in a telephone interview from
his home in Pretoria.
Treurnicht, whose Conservative
Party split from the National Party
in 1982, said a major issue was voter
concern
of rioting:
time, and in certain cases not
strongly enough. That created un
certainty, it created instability ... It
added to the fear that South Africa
might have black-majority rule in
the near future.”
over government handling
ig: “I think it didn’t act in
By official count, more than 800
eople, almost all of them black,
lave died in 14 months of violence
arising from apartheid.
P
h
Foreign trade
deficit soars
to all-time high
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The coun
try’s foreign trade deficit soared
to an all-time high of $ 15.5 billion
in September while the govern
ment’s main gauge of future eco
nomic activity posted a scant 0.1
percent increase, the Commerce
Denartment said Thursday.
In further gloomy news, the
department said orders to U.S.
factories fell 0.6 percent last
month, further emphasizing the
battering the U.S. industrial sec
tor is taking at the hands of for
eign cbmpetition.
I he September trade deficit
was 57 percent higher than the
August total as imports surged to
a record high of $33.3 billion.
The increase was led by a 54.8
lercent jump in shipments of
apanese cars and a 17.6 percent
increase in oil shipments.
The barely perceptible 0.1 per
cent advance in the Index of
Leading Indicators in September,
coupled with the drop in factory
orders, left many private econo
mists concerned about the dura
bility of the current recovery.
Allen Sinai, chief economist for
Shearson Lehman Brothers, said,
“The economy is struggling.”
“We have a trade sector that is
in deep trouble. U.S. industry is
being pushed against the wall,”
he said.
r
Utility customers donating
to help needy pay for heat
Associated Press
The specter of poor people freez
ing to death because they can’t pay
for heat has helped raise billions of
dollars to defray their bills, includ
ing millions of dollars from utility
customers who are being asked to
donate $1 or more with each pay
ment.
The federal Energy Assistance
Program will once again provide up
to $2.1 billion to help poor and el
derly people pay for heat this winter,
although only about one-third of eli
gible people take advantage of the
program. The average payment per
household ranges from about $60 in
Texas and Louisiana to $625 in
North Dakota.
Ten states, primarily in the Frost
Belt, have created their own pro
grams with nearly $200 million to
supplement the federal help. In ad
dition, a growing number of utilities
are creating private fuel funds, in
which stockholders and customers
contribute to help the needy.
In Pittsburgh, customers of three
utilities are expected to contribute
$1 million this season to the Dollar
Energy Fund, which gave heating
money to 4,327 people in 16 western
Pennsylvania counties last winter.
The fund estimates 9,000 people in
its area will be without heat or light
this winter.
A Share the Warmth program in
Tulsa, Okla., and Oklahoma City
brought in $304,734 last year,
according to Oklahoma Natural Gas
Co., which sponsored the project.
The money was distributed to 3,433
families with an average of $88.77
per household, it said.
Mary Ann Bernald, consumer af
fairs manager for the industry
f roup said about one-third of the
80 electric companies that belong
to the Edison F.lectric Institute have
such funds, which provide an aver
age of $50 to $100 to needy families
each winter.
About 20 percent of the 250 gas
utilities that belong to the American
Gas Association also have fuel funds,
said Terry Uhl, a spokesman for the
group, wnich represents the largest
of the nation’s 1,500 gas utilities.
Juan intensifies, heads for Florida
Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Erratic
Tropical Storm Juan returned to the
Gulf of Mexico and spun back up to
near hurricane strength Thursday,
heading for rain-soaked Floriaa
“like a speeding truck” after causing
more than $1 billion damage in
Louisiana.
At 12:30 p.m. EST, Juan rolled
ashore near Gulf Shores, Ala.,
southeast of Mobile near the Florida
border, and was moving toward the
northeast at 15 to 20 mph, the Na
tional Weather Service said. Gale
warnings were posted from Port
O’Connor, Texas, to Fort Myers,
Fla.
Tides 4 to 6 feet above normal
were expected along the coasts of Al
abama and northwestern Florida.
Florida Gov. Bob Graham cut
short a trip to Washington and
urged coastal residents to be ready
to evacuate, as they did ahead of
Hurricane Elena during the Labor
Day weekend.
Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace.
declared a state of emergency and
the Emergency Management
Agency opened shelters in coastal
cities.
At least seven people had been
killed by the suaden, late-season
storm since it sprawled along the
Louisiana coast Sunday.
Seven people were unaccounted
for, but four others aboard a sailboat
were reported safe Thursday more
than two days after they were re
ported missing.
Court ends pilots'strike against Continental
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A federal bank
ruptcy court judge issued a court or
der Thursday ending a two-year
strike against Continental Airfines
by the Air Line Pilots Association.
U.S. Bankrupcy Judge Glover
Roberts issued tne order after two
weeks of discussions between attor
neys for Continental and ALPA,
Continental spokesman Mike Cinelli
said.
The agreement “resolves all out
standing issues in the labor dispute
between Continental and the Air
Line Pilots Association,” according
to a statement released by ALPA’s
Washington office.
The settlement provides seniority
protection for striking pilots who re-.
“As with all third-party decisions, we didn't get every
thing we wanted. However, the seniority reinstatement,
severance pay and retirement fund issues were on the
top of our list. The court’s decision provides an orderly
system for striking pilots to return to work. ” —ALPA
president Capt. Henry Duffy
turn to work, and a severance pay
option to eligible pilots who choose
not to return to work for Continen
tal.
“As with all third-party decisions,
we didn’t get everything we wanted,”
said ALPA president Capt. Henry
Duffy. “However, the seniority re
instatement, severance pay and re
tirement fund issues were on the top
of our list. The court’s decision pro
vides an orderly system for striking
pilots to return to work.”
ALPA walked out on Continental
on Oct. 1, 1983, one week after the
airline filed for court protection
from creditors under the U.S. Bank
ruptcy Code, slashed wages up to 50
percent and trimmed its workforce
by about two-thirds.
Two other unions — the Union of
Flight Attendants and the Interna
tional Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers — also struck
against the Houston-based carrier
but ended their strikes in April.
ALPA authorized its 1,450 strik
ing pilots in September to seek their
old jobs at Continental and tempo
rarily suspended pickets but insisted
its strike had not ended.
Of ALPA’s 2,000 Continental pi
lots, about 1,450 have remained on
strike and about 550 returned to
work, Mazor said.
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