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World and Nation
• FOR RENT
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401 Lake-Bryan
822-7178 or 268-8620
Professionally managed by
On-Line Property Managers.
Cotton Village Apts.,
Snook, Tx.
1 Bdrm,; $200 2 Bdrm.; $248
Rental assistance available!
Call 846-8878 or 774-0773
after 5pm.
• FOR SALE
1976 Datsun Truck $500. Good condition. Call 696-
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Treehouse Village furnished 1-1. Sublease $465./mo.
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2 Bdrm, 1 Bath large windows & tall trees. $410./mo.
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$300. 696-4392. 67U2/10
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move in. Call WYNDHAM 846-4384. $350./mo.
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507
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• FOR SALE
EMERALD FOREST, $97,900
•Spacious 4 bdrm., Corner Lot
'* Ener 9y Efficient, Family
Mf.
Home
John Clark
268-7629
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Battalion Classified
845-2611
Three-term senator announces
retirement caused by ‘burnout’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate
Budget Committee Chairman Law-
ton Chiles of Florida announced
Monday he will retire because of job
“burnout,” becoming the third Sen
ate committee chairman to an
nounce he will not run for re-elec
tion in 1988.
“I just wasn’t looking forward to
another six years in the Senate,”
Chiles said at a news conference.
“Maybe at some stage there is a little
burnout.”
The three-term senator said he
wasn’t worried about competition in
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Su
preme Court said Monday it will
consider killing a lawsuit that seeks
to strip the Roman Catholic Church
of its tax-exempt status because of
the church’s anti-abortion lobbying.
The justices agreed to decide
whether “pro-choice” organizations
and individuals have the proper le
gal standing to sue the federal gov
ernment over the church’s tax status.
Monday’s action spares, for now,
the U.S. Catholic Conference and
the National Conference of Catholic
Bishops from having to pay
$100,000 a day in contempt-of-court
fines for not surrendering informa
tion sought in the suit.
In the Catholic Church case, a
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of
Soviets are streaming to the United
States to settle or visit relatives who
emigrated in the 1970s, creating an
11-hour workday for officials at the
U.S. Consulate and opening up new
channels of contact between the su
perpowers.
The increase in the number of So
viets going to the United States is
part of an overall shift in Kremlin
emigration policies in the months
leading up to this week’s U.S.-Soviet
summit meeting. Thousands of
Jews, ethnic Germans, Armenians
and others have left permanently or
for visits to the West this year.
Jewish emigration, a hot political
issue in the West, is nowhere near
his re-election campaign, and his
health remained good despite open-
heart surgery two years ago.
“I think our campaign was in very
good shape,” Chiles said. “It was the
next six years that I was concerned
about, not the campaign.”
Chiles, 57, is the youngest of the
three Democratic senators not seek
ing re-election, all of them commit
tee chairmen. The others are Sens.
John Stennis, 86, of Mississippi,
head of the Appropriations Com
mittee, and William Proxmire, 72, of
1980 lawsuit seeks to force the gov
ernment. to revoke the church’s tax-
exempt status, assess millions in back
taxes and order that money donated
to the church not be claimed as char
itable tax deductions.
The suit says the government, by
not forcing church compliance with
the federal tax code’s limits on the
political efforts of tax-exempt
groups, is giving the church a sub
sidy unavailable to pro-choice
groups that are not tax-exempt.
The suit originally named the
church and its various agencies as
defendants, but they were dropped
from the case in 1982.
U.S. District Judge Robert L. Car
ter in New York City ruled, how-
the peak reached in 1979, when
more than 51,000 Soviet Jews left
for Israel or other Western nations.
However, emigration and private
trips are up sharply from 1986,
when only 914 Jews and 698 ethnic
Germans emigrated all year and
only 500 Soviets, most of them offi
cials, made it to the United States
each month.
At the U.S. Embassy, the boom in
emigration and visitor applications
means the consulate, usually de
serted on most weekday afternoons,
is jammed with Armenians and
other Soviets.
“It’s like the Metro out there,”
U.S. Consul-General Max Robinson
said, gesturing to the consulate’s
Wisconsin, chairman of the Banking
Committee.
Republicans Paul Trible of Vir
ginia, Dan Evans of Washington and
Robert Stafford of Vermont also
have announced plans to leave the
Senate.
Chiles had already raised $1.3
million for his re-election campaign
in spite of a $100 limit on contribu
tions to his campaign, Dennis Beal,
Chiles’ budget spokesman, said. The
campaign was already looking at
ways to return the unspent money,
he said.
ever, that the church was in civil con
tempt after it refused to supply
certain records to those suing the
government.
Lawyers for the church and its
agencies contend they should not be
held in contempt because the under
lying lawsuit is flawed.
But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals last June rejected the
church’s arguments that the pro-
choice groups and individuals who
sued lack the proper legal standing
to do so.
Monsignor Daniel F. Hoye, gen
eral secretary of the National Con
ference of Catholic Bishops, said
Monday he considered the Supreme
Court action an encouraging sign.
main room but referring to the busy
Moscow subway.
Each day the applicants arrive by
the dozens, sometimes hundreds, to
present their Soviet documents au
thorizing the visit.
Piles of visa application forms in
Russian and extra chairs have ap
peared to cope with the flow of Sovi
ets.
This week, a team of six experts
from Washington is on hand to com
puterize the consulate files “because
we’re so busy,” Robinson said.
The consular staff generally start
work at 8:30 a.m. and are often
around until 7:30 p.m. to process
visa applications, he said.
With Chiles out of the race, seve
ral Democrats were expected to con
sider bids for their party’s nomi
nation, including Rep. Buddy
MacKay, who unsuccessfully ran for
the Senate in 1980, and Rep. Bill
Nelson.
On the GOP side, Rep. Connie
Mack had already entered the race
against Chiles. After Mack came for
ward recently and said he had
smoked marijuana, Chiles admitted
he too had tried the drug.
Chiles entered the U.S. Senate in
1971, after earlier serving 12 years
in the Florida legislature. He won
the 1980 statewide election after
touring the state on foot, and be
coming known as “Walkin’ Lawton.”
Chiles took over the chairmanship
of the budget committee this year,
after toiling for six years in the mi
nority when the Republicans con
trolled the Senate. Cniles, a moder
ate, proposed reducing the deficit
with tax increases and spending cuts.
But he was frustrated by months
of stalemate, and then he partici
pated in the four weeks of closed-
door talks that produced a budget
pact with the White House.
Tumbling
oil prices
worry OPEC
NEW YORK (AP) — A glut of
supplies with no place to go, to
gether with worries that this
week’s OPEC meeting could
make matters worse, sent oil
prices broadly lower Monday.
On the New York Mercantile
exchange, contracts for January
delivery of West Texas Interme
diate, the benchmark U.S. crude
oil, closed at $18.25 per 42-gallon
barrel, down 49 cents from Fri
day.
Among refined products, con
tracts for wholesale heating oil
tumbled by 1.33 cents a gallon, to
54.93 cents a gallon, while whole
sale unleaded gasoline closed at
46.84 cents a gallon, down 1.11
cents.
“It was just a general lack of
buying,” said Madison Galbraith,
senior energy specialist at Merrill
Lynch Energy Futures.
John O’Dea, manager of inter
national energy futures at Dean
Witter Reynolds Inc. also said
lack of demand “was the major
criterion.”
Court may halt lawsuit allow
church to stay tax-exempt
Soviet emigration increases
Banks may have lowest earnings since ’34
WASHINGTON (AP) — The na
tion’s banks earned a record $5.8 bil
lion last summer but still may end
the year with the lowest overall earn
ings since 1934, the government’s
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
said Monday.
FDIC Chairman L. William Seid-
man blamed the prognosis on con
tinued economic problems in Texas
and other oil-industry states, com
bined with large write-offs taken in
the April-June quarter to cover
Latin-American loan losses.
Separately, the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board said 10 percent of
the nation’s approximately 3,000
savings and loan institutions are now
insolvent, with about one-third of
these insolvencies occuring in Texas
alone.
The nation’s savings and loans lost
$1.6 billion in the July-September
quarter, a slight improvement from
the previous quarter, the regulatory
agency said.
Meanwhile, commercial bank fail
ures this year have already climbed
to a record 173, and may reach 200
by year’s end, Seidman said.
He said nine banks failed last
week alone, the record for a one-
week period. There were 144 bank
failures last year.
Seidman said the number of bank
failures would narrow next year, but
not by as much as originally ex
pected — largely because of contin
ued bank failures in the Southwest.
“Clearly, the economy in the
Southwest is not improving,” he told
a news confernce. “Right now, we do
not see any recovery in the figures.
Oil prices have gone down and
there’s great uncertainty on where
they will go in the future.”
The FDIC said the rebound in
profits in the third quarter followed
a record loss of $10.6 billion in the
second quarter.
“Banking profits are on a roller
coaster this year,” Seidman said.
He said the upswing was due in
part to higher interest rates, which
boosted yields to banks on loans and
investment securities; and in part be
cause major banks put fewer dollars
into reserves during the period.
The large sums put in reserve in
the second quarter as a hedge
against anticipated later losses on
Latin American loans “substantially
reduced the the need for these
banks to add to reserves during the
third quarter,” the FDIC said.
Despite the continued bleak out
look for the Southwest, the overall
profitability of small banks, partic
ularly in the Midwest, has been im
proving this year in a reflection of a
better farm economy.
Also, the October stock market
plunge “has resulted in an increase
in bank deposits,” the FDIC said. It
did not specify to what extent.
In response to questions, Seidman
said it is still too early to tell what
overall impact the stock market col
lapse will have on the banking sys
tem.
In a separate report Monday, the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
said the 3,178 savings and loan insti
tutions it insures suffered net losses
in the third quarter of $ 1.6 billion —
up from losses of $1.8 billion in the
second quarter.
The board said 934 S&Ls lost as
total of $3.1 billion in the third quar
ter. Of this group, 318 were insol
vent and posted net losses of $2.3
billion.
Insolvent Texas S&rLs accounted
for 61 percent of the losses.
“The impact of Texas on industry
earnings underscores the urgency
the bank board attaches to complet
ing a study now under way to deal
with the troubled (savings and loans)
in that state,” said James R. Barth,
the board’s chief economist.
With the insolvent S&Ls sub
tracted from the totals, the industry
showed net earnings of $713 million
in the third quarter, compared with
second-quarter earnings of $582 mil
lion.
The bank board has closed or
otherwise liquidated 28 insolvent
S&Ls and plans to take similar action
against 16 more before the end of
the year, Barth said.
He said the board plans to close
an average of one insolvent savings
and loan a week in 1988.
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