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But clashes continued between sol diers and demonstrators in the occupied territories. Hospital officials reported four Pales tinians wounded, three of whom were in jured with plastic bullets. In the Gaza Strip, sources said a gre nade was thrown between a civillian car and a bus carrying soldiers. There were no injuries as a result of the attack, and soldiers sealed the area and detained a number of Palestinians, army officials said. A day earlier, a grenade was thrown at an army jeep, wounding two soldiers in the legs. Rabin, speaking at a Foreign Press As sociation luncheon, said Wednesday’s incident was the third time grenades had been hurled at Israelis in the recent days since fighting began. Rabin also said a village leader had been shot to death with an assault rifle by PLO enforcers. He said terror attacks had declined in the occupied lands in the past 10 months, due to the fact that Palestinian activists have been focusing primarily on large- scale demonstrations and stone-throwing confrontations. But the defense minister said the army had succeeded in stopping big protests and in recent days there had been a up surge in the use of bullets, bombs and grenades. The army did not identify the group behind the latest grenade attacks in the city. Arab journalists in the Gaza Strip said rumors circulated that the attacks were the work of Islamic militants. Palestinian sources said Yasser Ar afat’s Palestine Liberation Organization was not involved, and prominent Pales tinians said they were not aware of any change in PLO policy. “I don’t think a few such cases signals any change in policy. But whoever is be hind such acts is definitely not on the same track as the PLO,’’ said Jonathan Kuttab, a Palestinian human rights activ ist. PLO leaders have said Palestinian pro testers had access to weapons, although they had been instructed not to use them in confrontations with Israelis. The restraint has won international sympthy for the Palestinians. The embargo on terror is an essential ingredient for any Palestinian-Israeli dia logue after Israel’s Nov. 1 general elec tion. Rabin said he believed the use of bul lets by Palestinians may be an effort to prod PLO leaders into taking a stand po litically on negotiations with Israel. Mexico takes action to prevent inflation MEXICO CITY (AP) — The plunge in the price of oil, Mexico’s leading export, has forced the government to an nounce painful budget cuts, consider an International Mone tary Fund contingency loan and renew calls for a better deal on the foreign debt. It also highlights a stubborn battle against inflation and an ambitious trade liberalization program meant to diversify Mexico’s export earnings and wean it from dependence on oil generated revenues. Pemex, the government oil monopoly, said on Oct. 7 that average spot market prices for Mexican crude had sunk to about $9 a barrel and that revenues for this year would fall be low 1987’s $8.6 billion figure. Last year, oil accounted for 41 percent of total Mexican ex port revenues and keyed the country’s overall $8.4 billion trade surplus. Reacting to the drop in oil-based earnings — estimated by one Energy Department official at $2 billion below official projections so far this year — President Miguel de la Madrid’s administration announced more than $200 million in budget cuts last Friday. It took pains to assure Mexicans, whose paychecks are worth half what they were in 1982, that the cuts would spare social programs. “We can manage the problems (caused by falling oil prices) with some sacrifices,” Agustin F. Legorreta, president of the private Business Coordinating Council, said Tuesday. The falling price of oil has spurred new calls for renegotia tion of Mexico’s $104 billion foreign debt. Legorreta said in terest payments on the debt are taking funds away from eco nomic development. The government has been using its foreign reserves to sup port a 7-month-old peso currency exchange rate freeze as part of an anti-inflation wage and price stabilization program. If the price of oil keeps dropping, however, the government may actually be forced to add to the debt burden. Most analysts believe the government when it says inflation is its No. 1 economic priority and analysts say President-elect Carlos Salinas de Gortari will try to maintain the fight. Salinas takes office Dec. 1. “The danger of hyperinflation is so big that the effort should continue,” Jacobo Zaidenwcber, president of the Mex ico-United States Chamber of Commerce, said in a recent in terview. “It could take between one and three years in one form or another.” Under terms of a 1987 foreign debt rescheduling agreement with the IMF, Mexico has the option to draw up to $1.2 bil lion in contingency loans if the price of crude drops below the $9 barrier. Reserves, which reached a high of $16 billion in April, dropped to an estimated $12 billion in July as the government propped up the peso against the dollar. The government has resisted fresh calls to devalue and give Mexican entrepreneurs a new export advantage that could help offset the shrinking trade surplus. A devaluation would gener ate new inflationary pressures; the anti-inflation plan has, offi cially, reduced annualized inflation from a record 159.2 per cent in 1987 to about 45 percent this year. Although resisting the calls to devalue, the administration has stressed the importance of non-oil exports to make up for the shortfall in oil revenues. Through June, Mexico’s first-semester merchandise trade surplus totalled $2.4 billion, well below 1987’s $4.76 billion, according to the Center for Private Sector Economic Studies. But non-petroleum exports, at $7.1 billion, were up 20 per cent over the same period in 1987. However, the surplus was hurt when merchandise imports surged by 53 percent between January and June to $8.3 bil lion. That was encouraged by trade liberalization aimed at forcing domestic industry to become competitive and lower prices. On Monday, Tomas Rodriguez Weber, director general of Capital Goods and Petrochemical Industries affairs at the Comr erce Department, reiterated the government’s position that manufactures exports are the best way to compensate for the weak oil sector. ABC-Post poll: Bush ahead with solid lead But many of the recentcasiialc; coincided with stepped-up anes and the introduction of plastic!?^ Since the beginning of the id® : Palesitinans have been killed ait, i wounded. The overall death toll staulii ; since the uprisingbeganDec.8. Ten suspected Arab collator: > Israeli authorities have been Ilk I last December. This figure includes threeifc; jj stabbed to death in recent weeh; lus. about 30 miles northoffc.- Soldiers blew up four house! • city of Nablus, a low-incomek; hood w ith narrow windingste Five other houses were seal; sealed by the army. Reagan call session for Conti} WASHINGTON (AP)-fe Reagan intends to call Coops to Washington for a specif later this year if he judgesfe ragua's Sandinista govemt seeking to mop up the renue anti-government Contra: sources said Wednesday Reagan plans to annoucc:: tent in a statement later this well-placed sources, who spot on condition of anonymity, If the president decidestoi. would ask Congress forfitl to release 516.5 million m aid for the Contras now storiji: Honduran warehouses. The precise fomm and Reagan's statement have noire cided, the sources said. But they said it was intends a strong signal to the leftist^ tas that “Reagan ain't I town,” as one source sad 2 be w atching developments;: 1 gua. Under a Pentagon moneyt Reagan signed earlier procedure is establishedforep congressional consideration' request for military aidforthe The Conijas have been U.S. military supportsincefc w hen it was ended in defereK forts to forge a long-term between the tw'o sides. The rebels now are receive $27 million in humaniiariani the Pentagon appropriations! Under the law, Reaganwi; gcr an expedited vote on th piled weaponry if he certifiess gress that two of three coni’ met: • That the Soviet Union to funnel unacceptable levelsd tary hardware to the Sandiniffi • That the leftist S; emment is violating termsd! gional peace accord, • That they launch an tin attack on the rebels. Administration officials that the first two of those cat already exist. One source familiar with del House planning said, "Theps will say if anything approach! third (condition) occurs,‘hi Congress back into session."’ NEW YORK (AP) — A state-by-state poll released Wednesday of nearly 10,000 likely voters rated George Bush to be solidly ahead in the race for the pre sidency, saying he held a huge lead in the contest for electoral votes. Although polls of the nation as a whole indicate a close race between Bush and Michael Dukakis, the ABC News-Washington Post survey of the standings in each state — where the elec tion actually is decided — put Bush firmly ahead. ABC reported that Bush led solidly in 21 states with a total of 220 electoral votes — just 50 short of the total needed to win. Dukakis was firmly ahead in only three states with 30 electoral votes. With the election nearly a month off, voter sentiments can change. But the ABC-Post poll, the only public survey of its size this year, was the first recent poll to indicate a significant advantage for ei ther candidate. The poll was conducted from Sept. 21 through Monday among 9,778 likely voters in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. ABC said it had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. ABC and the Post also conducted a standard national survey that put the race at 51 percent for Bush to 45 percent to Dukakis. A CBS News-New York Times poll Wednesday had nearly the same re sult: 50-45. That second ABC-Post poll was con ducted Oct. 5 through Tuesday among 1,187 likely voters nationwide; The CBS-Times poll was done Oct. 8 through Monday among 1,009 probable voters. Both had four-point margins of error. Such national polls measure popular sentiment across the nation as a whole. But in the election each state gives its electoral votes to the winner in that state, so the state-by-state standings are more relevant to the outcome. Such polls are rarely done because conducting polls in each state requires a far larger sample than surveying the nation as a whole. The CBS-Times poll found increasing doubt about the qualifications of the Re publican vice presidential nominee. Sen. Dan Quayle, to serve as president and it indicated the concern was keeping the race a close one in terms of the popular contest nationally. By a 2-1 margin, probable voters in the CBS-Times poll doubted Quayle’s qualifications for the presidency, his worst rating in that survey. He was seen as qualified by only 30 percent, while twice as many — 63 percent — said they would worry about him serving as presi dent. Quayle’s presence appeared to help Dukakis: Asked if they could vote only for president, without considering the running mate, support for Dukakis dipped from 45 percent to 41 percent. Bush’s support remained at 50 percent. Congress approves base closings WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday, which authorizes the Penta gon to close unneeded military bases for a savings of up to $5 billion a year. The Senate approved the bill 82-7 and the House followed shortly afterward with a 370-31 vote which sent the mea sure to President Reagan. He is expected to sign it. The Defense Department estimates that between $2 billion and $5 billion a year can be saved if it is permitted to pare down the list of 3,800 U.S. military installations. “We are addressing one of the great sacred cows in this country and in this body,” Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, said. The bill sets up a complicated base closing procedure which essentially cuts through the thicket of laws enacted by Congress in the past decade to thwart Pentagon efforts to shut down bases. Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said, “We know we cannot afford excess bases that we don’t need, we all also un derstand the reality and the sensitivity of the communities in America that are so dependent, in some cases, on these bases . . . and we know that reflects itself here in the Congress.” The bill endorses a Pentagon-ap- pointed commission, which has been meeting for months trying to put together a list of bases to be closed. The current panel will include 12 members by the bill. The panel will make its recommenda tions by Dec. 31 and Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci will then have until Jan. 15 — five days before he leaves of fice — to either accept or reject the entire list. He will not be able to change the list. No base closures would begin before 1990. Group sa/i medical pti h urts elm AUSTIN (AP) — A consi Wednesday said many elded! getting ripped-offby “Medef care policies and called to strictions on the industry The Consumers Union atiil 1 thers filed a petition withtheit of Insurance seeking morereP Medicare supplement polio# called Medigap policies Charlotte Flynn, of the Guy said the elderly are often unscrupulous insurance ace® 1 them worthless policies, or p® duplicate coverage. “The board must take cot® situation and adopt rules so 4* nies writing worthless pol^ agents who prey on the vul** the elderly will have noclioi^ the Medigap business," si® 3 news conference outside li® 3 board building. A 1986 congressional repo 3 ! that $3 billion of the $12bl® the elderly nationwide toi®® ance is wasted on unnecessaf* lent policies. Texas cons®* more than $500 million in ^ medicare supplement insu^' in 1986. Carol Barger, of tl®^ Union, said the state insnr^j ceived about 2,500 compi^, gap policies last year, but^ ance board has done little 1 ' " industry.