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Page 16/The BattalionThursday, January 23,1986
World and Nation
Prices expected to rise in 1986
Sluggish economy predicted
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Despite a
year-end surge in food and fuel
prices that economists called tempo
rary, retail prices rose only 3.8 per
cent in 1985, held to 4 percent or
lower for the fourth consecutive
year, the government said Wednes
day.
But the low overall inflation rate
was accompanied by the slowest
growth in the U.S. economy since
the recession year of 1982. In a sepa
rate report, the government said the
Gross National Product expanded
by a lackluster 2.3 percent in 1985 —
even slower than previously re
ported.
Fconomists said the twin reports
pointed toward another year ahead
of sluggish growth with moderately
rising prices.
“We think 1986 will be a continua
tion of the pattern we had in 1985,”
said Lawrence Chimerine, president
of Chase Econometrics, a private
forecasting firm based in Bala Cyn-
wyd, Pa. “There is no danger of a re
cession, but we’re not likely to see an
economic boom either.”
The Labor Department’s Con
sumer Price Index of 3.8 percent
would have been lower had it not
been for a bulge in energy and food
prices in November and December.
The index, which is based on the
prices for a variety of goods and
services that people buy for day-to-
day living, was 4 percent in 1984, 3.8
percent in 1983 and 3.9 percent in
1982 — well down from a high of
13.3 percent in 1979.
For December, consumer prices
rose 0.4 percent, a slower rate of in
crease from the 0.6 percent rise in
November but a bit ahead of the
year’s average monthly increase of
0.3 percent, the department said.
Fuel price increases began to
abate in December, and government
analysts said they expected even fur
ther drops in gasoline and heating
oil in the months to come following a
decline in world crude oil prices.
Declining crude oil prices, the re
sult of a glut and disorganzation
within the Organization of Petro
leum Exporting Countries, had not
yet shown up in the December CPI.
The index showed gasoline priti
increasing 1 percent, compared to
1.4 percent rise of November.
For all of 1985, overall enerj
prices rose a modest 1.8 percent
Meat prices, which had shot up
November, rose far less rapidly
December, although skyrockeuc
prices for fresh lettuce and tomaift
kept food prices relatively hip
through the end of the year, thei
partment said.
The separate report on the Gra
National Product, released by tii
Commerce Department, reflected
downward revision of one-tenthoii
percent from the 2.4 percent er.
mated last month.
MIA’s in Vietnam still sought
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —Members of
Congress who visited Vietnam and
Laos received nothing to confirm
the belief that American servicemen
are still being held prisoner there,
the head of the delegation said
Wednesday.
“I don’t want to raise any false
hopes,” Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-
Alaska, told a news conference
called to report on the delegation’s
recently concluded Southeast- Asian
tour.
Murkowski, chairman of the Sen
ate Veterans Affairs Committee,
said the panel will hold hearings
next week on the possibility Ameri
can prisoners remain in captivity in
Southeast Asia more than a decade
after the end of the war.
A top Pentagon official had said
last week that the Vietnamese gov
ernment has pledged to join U.S. au
thorities in investigating nearly a
hundred “live-sighting reports” of
Americans missing in Indochina.
Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.,
another member of the delegation
who returned last week from the
nine-day overseas tour, said
Wednesday he believes Americans
are there.
But he refused to say whether he
believes these Americans are prison
ers, raising the possibility they may
be defectors.
He noted that in recent months,
the Vietnamese government had
asked the populace to look hard for
the remains of soldiers from the war.
Officially, the U.S. position is that
the government cannot flatly rule
out the possibility that American
prisoners are still being held.
Vietnamese have begun investigat
ing reports from their own people
involving the status of missing
Americans and have allowed joint
U.S.-Vietnamese teams to conduct
excavations at sites where American
planes are known to have crashed
during the war.
The Vietnamese refused
repeated appeals by the
group to permit U.S.
teams to visit and check
the live sighting reports,
but have been more forth
coming on helping to turn
up remains. . . .
Sen. Frank Murkowski, R-
Alaska.
There have been recurring re
ports of U.S. prisoners still being
held, and Assistant Defense Secre
tary Richard Armitage said Jan. 13
that 95 such “live sighting reports”
remain under investigation.
Murkowski said the group met
with Vietnamese Foreign Minister
Nguyen Co Thach and also with Eu
ropean ambassadors stationed in
Hanoi.
The United States is pushing for a
full accounting of the 2,441 Ameri
cans still listed as unaccounted for,
including 1,797 in Vietnam.
Vietnam has steadfastly denied
that it holds any U.S. prisoners, but
it also has refused to permit Ameri
can investigators to enter the coun
try and check out the reports. In re-
cent months, however, the
The Vietnamese refused repeated
appeals by the group to permit U.S.
teams to visit and check the live
sighting reports, said Murkowski,
but have been more forthcoming on
helping to turn up remains of Amer
ican servicemen.
Comedian
sues tabloid
for report
Associated Press
More than 30 sets of remains have
been turned over in the past six
months, and the Vietnamese prom
ised information on 50 others next
month, Murkowski said. He added,
however, the type of information to
be provided remains to be seen.
NEW YORK — Eddie Murphi
has sued The National Enquire:
for S60 million over a reportthi
the comedian was haunted bvtht
slaying of his father.
The suit, filed in federal coun
here Tuesday, asks for a jun
trial.
The article, which appearec
Nov. 19, was headlined, "Eddie
Murphy Haunted By Dad's Bn:
tal Murder —He’s Afraid Hel
Die The Same Horrible Death.”
Court papers allege the Eft
uuirer “wove a totally false ant
defamatory article” about tlx
death of Charles Edward Mur
phy, who was fatally stabbed bva
girlfriend in 1969.
The suit calls the headlinr
“outrageous and written in
manner calculated to boost sales
and said the story portrayed Mur
phy as paranoid, juvenile, inse
cure and unstable.
Paul Wolff, a lawyer for (hi
Enquirer, declined to commen:
Wednesday, saying he had no:
seen the court papers.
Union asks governor to remove Guard troops
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Minn. — National
Guard troops cordoned off an en
trance to a strikebound meatpacking
plant Wednesday, and workers
drove through to reopen the factory
that authorities had closed for one
day to avert violence.
The troops, carrying billy clubs
and bundled in arctic gear, formed a
double line to keep strikers about 50
yards from people entering the
George A. Hormel & Co. plant,
where 1,500 workers walked off the
job five months ago.
At least 150 cars entered the plant
through the cordoned-off north
gate after receiving instructions on
local radio stations.
The plant reopened Jan. 13., and
tension has run high since Monday,
when the first replacement workers
began taking the places of union
members. On Wednesday, as tem
peratures dipped near zero, the
scene was relatively calm.
“No one has tried to cross the
Guard’s line,” said Larry Gullickson,
a member of the striking Local P-9
of the International United Food
and Commercial Workers. “If you
go near them, they’ll chase you
away,”
Chuck Nyberg, Hormel’s senior
vice president, said “We are under
siege in this town and we think it’s
important the Guard are here.”
Deryl Arnold, plant manager, said
“We’ve had a goodly number of peo
ple Who have returned and we’re in
the process of hiring more replace
ment workers. The plant is open.”
Union members, who forced the
plant to close Tuesday by taunting
and mimicking Guard members and
harassing returning workers, called
on Gov. Rudy Perpich to remove the
peacekeeping force. He refused.
The union, in a prepared
statement, said, “The National
Guard is not needed here. They
never were needed here.”
“The presence of the Nation
Guard in the city of Austin ...is
ing to a breakdown of law and
der,” the statement said. It accux
the Guard of harassing citizens
vandalizing vehicles.
The force was increased from j' 1
to 800 Tuesday night to assure
plant could reopen.
Local P-9 went on strike Aug
10 months after Hormel cut wa?
by 23 percent and dropped thebs
wage from $10.69 to $8.25 an h»
The company said the move
needed for it to remain competiti«
Union workers at other Horn*
plants accepted the concessions
now earn $10 an hour.
Turbulence injures several airline passengers
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A United
Airlines jet flying from Chicago to
San Francisco hit severe turbulence
over Utah on Wednesday, hurling
screaming passengers against the
ceiling and injuring 12 people.
Flight 127, a DG-8 carrying 138
passengers and a crew of six, landed
safely in San Francisco, where medi
cal personnel helped carry the in
jured off the plane, said airport
spokesman Ron Wilson.
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against the walls and ceilings and then just dropped. ” gotng'on’” 'he‘slid. ^The vM
Gary Garner, passenger. made your heart leap up into
throat.”
fered injuries when the plane “nosed
up and then dropped down before
stabilizing,” said Wilson, who noted
many passengers were not wearing
seat belts.
“It felt like the plane was falling to
pieces,” said passenger Grace Bie-
secker.
Most of those who were hurt suf-
Gary Garner, a mechanic from
Farmington Hills, Mich., who was
bound for a Hawaiian vacation, said
there had been turbulence through
most of the flight and “suddenly
there was a tremendous, tremen
dous vibration going through the
entire plane.
“People waiting to go to the bath
room were flung up against the walls
and ceilings and then just dropped,”
said Garner, who was wearing a seat
belt. He said his wife, Shirley, was
not wearing her belt and flew up
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