Wednesday, July 9, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
World and Nation
Waldheim inaugurated as president
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Kurt
Waldheim was inaugurated as presi
dent on Tuesday to cheers from sup
porters who berated a small group
protesters for trying to remind
““■^ Austrians of his purported involve-
Bient in Nazi war crimes.
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7loll Bemitism and called for reconcilia-
Jon in his inaugural address.
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is renewed every day, to consider
Ind treat each of our fellow-citizens
ks brother and sister — regardless of
which race, which religion and
which conviction they hold,” he said.
The former U.N. secretary-gen-
|ral was elected last month as Aus-
jria’s sixth postwar president follow
ing a campaign dominated by
allegations that he hid his role as a
Nazi intelligence officer in the Bal
kans.
The ambassadors of the United
States, the Soviet Union and Israel
were absent from the ceremony.
The U.S. and Soviet embassies both
said the omission was not a protest
and that their ambassadors had
prior commitments.
Israeli Ambassador Michael Elit-
zur was withdrawn immediately af
ter Waldheim’s June election.
The six-year presidential term is
mostly ceremonial.
Rabbi Avraham Weiss of New
York City, who led a small group of
Americans and Austrians in protest
outside Waldheim’s office, said, “We
proclaim that if Austria wishes to
forget, we shall remember.”
The crowd of about 40 Austrians
listening to Weiss grew rapidly after
Waldheim made a triumphal entry
to his office in the Hofburg building
about 300 yards away from Parlia
ment.
The ornate palace is a former resi
dence of Austrian emperors. Adolf
Hitler stood on one of its balconies
to acknowledge the cheers of thou
sands after the annexation of Aus
tria by Germany in 1938.
Waldheim, the first postwar presi
dent representing the conservative
People’s Party, did not look toward
the protesters as he walked amid
cheers from Parliament to the Hof
burg.
Six demonstrators wore striped
prison clothes. They were joined by
Beate Klarsfeld, the Paris-based
Nazi hunter.
About 1,500 Waldheim supporters
surrounded them.
“Get out of Austria!” some
shouted. Others hurled anti-Semitic
curses rarely heard in public since
the Hitler era. The crowd drowned
out Weiss’ efforts to speak with the
chant, “Long live Waldheim!”
The demonstrators stood on
chairs and held up posters depicting
Waldheim in German uniform and a
facsimile of the U.N. War Crimes
Commission document listing him as
wanted for war crimes.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stock
prices suffered big losses again
Tuesday as investors reeled f rom
the shock of Monday’s severe set
back on Wall Street.
Trading on the New York
Stock Exchange was the busiest it
has been in about three months.
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials finished down 18.27
points at 1820.73, well above its
lowest levels of the day.
The blue chip indicator
plunged when trading opened
and was down about 30 points
several times during the session.
The market made several unsuc
cessful attempts to rebound be
fore buying resumed in earnest in
the final minutes.
Although analysts had antic
ipated this year’s rally would lose
momentum, the magnitude of
the market’s reversal startled in
vestors. The Dow Jones industrial
average registered its worst point-
loss in history of 61.87 points on
Monday.
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Postal Service to finish
current year with profit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Post
master General Albert Casey pre
dicted Tuesday the Postal Service
will post a $414 million profit in the
current budget year, a dramatic re
covery which almost certainly will
stave off general rate increases in
1986 or 1987.
The agency posted a $251 million
loss in the 1985 budget year, which
ended Sept. 30. It takes 18 months
to prepare and implement a rate in
crease and none is in the works,
spokesman Robert Hoobingsaid.
In a recent report to Congress,
Janet D. Steiger, chairman of the
Postal Rate Commission, which must
approve any rate change, said she
expects no rate case to be filed this
year.
How long the first-class postage
rate can stay at 22 cents depends on
such variables as inflation, which has
been stable, and the size of any wage
increase in new postal labor con
tracts that will go into effect in July
1987.
It would also depend on the suc
cess of efforts in Congress to shift
$1.7 billion in retirees’ health care
and other costs from the taxpayers
to postal rate payers.
The mail agency traditionally
builds a surplus in the fall and win
ter and loses money in spring and
summer, when mail volume falls.
This year, the surplus is ahead of
projections and losses are well below
expectations.
Casey attributed the financial per
formance to a more than 7 percent
volume increase, reduced overtime
payments due to reliance on part-
timers to handle mail during busy
periods, and lower inflation.
Chihuahua elections contested
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico (AP) —
The ruling Institutional Revolution
ary Party wasted no time in declar
ing its triumph in Chihuahua state
gubernatorial elections Tuesday.
The conservative National Action
Party, or PAN, had had high hopes
for its .first gubernatorial victory in
history in this vast northern state
bordering Texas and New' Mexico.
The PAN, claiming government-
instituted fraud in Sunday’s guber
natorial, municipal and legislative
elections in Chihuahua, announced
it would seek a nullification of many
races and threatened to launch
“strictly nonviolent protests” to force
the government to play fair.
But the PAN and other private or
ganizations that had predicted foul
play and had pledged to retaliate
with massive protests still were un
sure how to mobilize its supporters.
The PRI, as the ruling party is
popularly known, announced after
the polls closed Sunday that its can
didate, Fernando Baeza, had tri
umphed in “legitimate elections.”
Results are not official until the
state election commission and legis
lature certify them on Sunday.
Oil company charged with bribery
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Securities and Exchange Com
mission charged Ashland Oil,
Inc., a Kentucky-based company,
and former chairman Orin E. At
kins Tuesday with trying to bribe
a foreign official.
Ashland and Atkins, without
admitting or denying the allega
tions in the SEC complaint, con
sented to an order that restrains
them from future violations of
the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act.
Ashland, headquartered in
Russell, Ky., is primarily engaged
in refining, transporting and
marketing crude oil products.
The complaint alleges that
Ashland and Atkins made pay
ments to James T. W. Landon at
the time when Landon was an of
ficer, employee or representative
for the government of Oman.
Major quake hits Southern California
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP)
— A severe earthquake shook
Southern California early Tues
day, damaging a major aqueduct,
shattering windows, triggering
rockslides and blackouts and
causing some minor injuries.
The quake measured 6.0 on
the Richter scale, the strongest in
the southern part of the state in
seven years, said seismologist
Kate Hutton of the California In
stitute of Technology in Pasa
dena,
It was centered about 12 miles
northwest of Palm Springs, said
Dennis Meredith, a spokesman
for the seismology lab at the Insti
tute of Technology.
Preliminary indications were
that the ground slipped about
two inches sideways along a
stretch 10 miles long and six miles
deep, said Hutton.
Court reinstates charges against Goetz
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The
state’s top court reinstated at
tempted murder and assault
charges Tuesday against Bern-
hard Goetz for shooting four
youths on a Manhattan subway.
Goetz, 39, an electronics
worker, was praised as a heroic
crime victim by some and blasted
as a trigger-happy vigilante by
others, after he admitted shoot
ing the four teen-agers on Dec.
22, 1984, when one of them
asked him for $5.
He was indicted by a grand
jury on four counts of attempted
murder and four counts of as
sault, but those charges were
thrown out by lower courts. The
New York Court of Appeals
unanimously overruled those
lower courts and declared that a
jury must get a chance to decide
Goetz’ guilt or innocence.
A heat wave steamed much of
the East for a third day Tuesday
with temperatures near 100 and
high humidity that fueled sales of
ice cream and air conditioners,
brought record demand for elec
tricity and threatened crops al
ready stricken by drought.
By noon, temperatures were
already in the 90s from Washing
ton, D.C., across parts of Vir
ginia, the Carolinas, Georgia and
Tennessee.
The weather service advised
people to check frequently on
friends and relatives living alone
and said the elderly and people
working outside should avoid
exertion.
On Monday, record highs were
posted from southern New En
gland into the Carolinas.
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