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Armenians ignore call for strik
to protest annexation rejectionR
MOSCOW (AP) — Armenians ignored activ- parked in protest of the decision Monday by the declined to give his name. Pressed tosaywhetl
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ists’ calls for a strike Thursday to protest the gov
ernment’s rejection of their demand to annex a
region in neighboring Azerbaijan, residents and
the state-run media reported.
central leadership to keep the region within
Azerbaijan. The broadcast blamed local officials
for failing to encourage workers to return to
their jobs.
anyone was striking, he conceded, “Somee
prises are not working fully.”
The reports indicated the government, after a
five-month struggle, may be gaining the upper
hand in controlling labor unrest that has caused
millions of dollars in lost production in Armenia.
However, a 2-month-old strike was reported
continuing in the disputed region, Nagorno-Ka
rabakh, whose population is mostly Armenian.
The national television news program Vremya
broadcast footage from Stepanakert, the region’s
administrative center, showing trucks and buses
standing idle, construction sites empty and work
ers milling around the city.
Vremya showed hundreds of buses and trucks
“The people are embittered,” said a worker
with the Gostelradio state broadcasting authority
in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh’s administra
tive center. “We don’t know what to do. But we
know that the refusal to make Nagorno-Kara
bakh part of Armenia wasn’tjust.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Vadim PerfL
told reporters at a briefing that industriesin|
menia were nearly back to normal.
Nagorno-Karabakh has been part of the
dominantly Moslem republic of Azerbaijan
65 years, and Azerbaijani leaders had vetoed
region’s decision to secede. [ er
A correspondent for the official Soviet news
agency Tass in the Armenian capital of Yerevan
said the call for a strike beginning Thursday
went largely unheeded.
“The majority of enterprises are working. It’s
a normal working day,” said the journalist, who
Armenians make up three-quarters o(ffi,ynet
160,000 people of the contested region, and >ublicat
tend that Azerbaijanis discriminate againsttMnmb tl
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I he annexation movement began in Februj « \ m
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MOSCOW (AP) — Savings banks
hold deposits equal to $1,700 for ev
ery man, woman and child in the So
viet Union, which reflects how diffi
cult it is for people to find anything
worth spending their money on.
The per capita savings figure of
1,000 rubles represents half a year’s
salary for most Soviet workers and
the hoard could generate serious in
flation when more consumer goods
reach the market. It was revealed
Thursday in a partial report on So
viet economic performance in the
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That indicates Soviet citizens have
far more savings in relation to in
come than people in the United
States or other Western industrial
countries.
What it says about the Soviet econ
omy is that desirable goods are
scarce and consumers appear to be
stashing their money in fear of high
prices when subsidies are removed
from basic items like food and hous-
plan crafted by Mikhail S. Gorba
chev and his advisers calls for simul
taneous increases in quality and
quantity, which Western analysts and
some Soviet economists consider un
realistic.
Although broad figures Belov
gave at a news conference indicated
the Kremlin was seeing the quantity
output it has ordered, the savings
figure and a look in any state-run
store illustrate the slow im
provement in production of con
sumer goods and services.
Only about 10 percent of Soviet
families own cars. Laundry is done
by hand in most homes for lack of
washing machines and many adults
own just three or four changes of
clothing.
Economist Nikolai Shmelev has
said the high savings level indicates
pent-up demand among consumers
and is a potential cause of inflation.
Savings accounts grew by 42 bil
lion rubles in 1987.
mg.
The current five-year economic
Per capita savings on an annual
basis were not given in the Soviet
economic report. The average
American last year saved only 3.7
percent of his income and Japanese
workers put aside about 15.6 per
cent, according to another published
report.
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10 dead, 13 hurt in Mexican prison
MEXICO CITY (AP) — In
mates in a Michoacan state peni
tentiary disarmed guards but
failed to escape and started an
hour-long riot. Officials said 10
prisoners were killed and 13 peo
ple wounded in a shootout with
police.
State attorney general Jose
Franco Villa said the violence
Wednesday at the prison in
Morelia was “an attempt at a mass
breakout.” It was not clear how
many of the prison’s 2,000 in
mates were involved.
Franco Villa blamed the rioting
on a “group of highly dangerous
inmates, most of whom weresei
tenced for drug trafficking,bar:
robberies and homicides." »■.
Franco Villa told a newjtoiB^ to
ference Wednesday night thailB . ,
inmates were killed and 13 s
pie wounded, including pristB, s ^
ers, guards and two visitors. ®
He said prisoners tosseda!
lotov cocktail into administra,.— ((
ices and destroyed virtually*' „ ^
s of pending court cases. li T’ ,,
penitentiary includes six sig | ril
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Franco Villa acknowledt:*^ j
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil
from cold-water fish, shown by
several studies to help prevent
heart attacks, may work its magic
by retarding a growth protein
which promotes clogged arteries,
a Cleveland researcher says.
Paul L. Fox of the Cleveland
Clinic Research Institute said
Thursday that test-tube experi
ments showed that oil extracted
from the flesh of fish that live in
cold water decreases levels of a
protein called the platelet-de
rived growth factor.
Reducing this protein, Fox
said, suppresses the growth 10t msi
smooth muscle cells in arter# t * ie *
and, thus, helps stem the blooM r .
vessel narrowing that can lead:
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But Fox said the finding dcusuallv!
not mean that {>eople should stiff/
popping fish-oil pills as a hear; “We
tack preventative. More studHpng
needs to l>e done before there elaid,
proof that such dietary supp?ailed ii
ments can be effective, he said Ifedul
one b-
“1 would not personally recoc|[, no
mend that people take fishoiip
said Fox. '‘'fllMiB
Minority
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tendon is actually the key to A&M’s
recruiting success.
“Minority students who come to
A&M do extremely well,” he said.
“The retention of minority students
at A&M from 1986 was the highest
success ratio of any institution in the
state. Eighty-eight percent of the
Hispanic freshman of 1986 came
back as sophomores and 87 percent
of the black freshman came back as
sophomores.
“These numbers are within a
point or two of the Anglo students’
return ratio, and that’s remarkable
when you consider how it has been
in the past.”
A&M’s minority recruitment and
retention is even better than UT’s,
Cooper said.
“Of those minority students that
come here, we retain a higher num
ber than UT does, which is another
step toward saying that ‘ours’ will
graduate. If you just count numbers
of minorities initially recruited then
UT would be ahead of us, but if you
count retention of students then it’s
definitely A&M.”
A&M has programs and incen
tives to help keep minority students
enrolled and successful, Cooper
said.
“We have excellent retention pro
grams here,” he said.
“We have the student affairs of
fice, the outreach center and most of
the academic colleges have summer
enrichment programs for minori
ties. We also offer a lot of schol
arships to selected entering fresh
men as an incentive to come to
A&M.”
One of the best services offered to
minority students at A&M, Cooper
said, is the Multicultural Services
Center.
Kevin Carreathers, coordinator of
the center, said they do everything
possible to keep the minority stu
dents enrolled and to help them
prosper.
“Since the center opened Sept. 1,
we’ve touched the lives of 3 to 400
students in some form or fashion,
and it’s been very rewarding,” Car
reathers said. “We help them find
summer apartments and summer in
ternships as well as helping them to
get scholarships, grants and loans.
The center also provides school
counseling.”
Cooper said one problem that
particularly concerns him is the high
school dropout rate.
“Eighty-five percent of the in
mates in the Texas Department of
Corrections are high school drop
outs,” Cooper said. “And, we’re los
ing about 50 percent of the Hispanic
and black students in Texas right
now before they even finish high
school.
“We can’t recruit them into col
lege if they never finish high school.
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Cooper also said that Tesj||US'
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tional situation based on recenigjnfoi
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“If the demographics area-state
in predicting that early in the es dec
century there will be more Hisf4|We
in Texas than any other race," siipp
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to lose 50-60 percent of the id j G
school dropouts,” he said. I'Hrna
not recruiting minorities becausun ian
federal government tells usl
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and we need them and thestith re
Texas needs an educated peie sam
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the fact that minorities will soothe
the majority, the Associated the f
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