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'Solid' recovery act in progress
ByROBERTBURNS AP Business Writer The latest jump in the government’s economic forecasting gauge means a “solid and sustained” recovery from recession is under way, Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan says. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday its Index of Leading Indicators rose 1.4 percent in February. It was the sixth straight monthly increase, though smaller than January’s. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige called the report “good news again for the economy.” One of the main forces that could sustain an economic recovery is the continued decline in energy prices. Britain proposed a new cut in its North Sea oil prices Wednesday, and sources said Iran trimmed its oil price by $3.20 a barrel. Britain offered to cut its prices by between 50 and 75 cents, to a range of $29.75 to S3O a barrel. Many industry analysts believe a bigger cut might have drawn the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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into a price war. On March 14, the OPEC ministers agreed to lower their base price by $5, to $29 a barrel. Iran set its new price at S2B a barrel, according to industry sources in Rome. Lower oil prices mean direct savings for American consumers as well as industry, and the benefits can be spread even further by a resulting drop in inflation. In a less optimistic sign for the economy, the Commerce Department reported new orders to factories for manufactured goods fell 2.2 percent in February. Orders had risen 2.5 percent in January, 3.9 percent last December and 0.4 percent in November. Despite the mixed economic reports, Donald Straszheim of Wharton Econometrics said, “We are quite convinced that the recovery is in place and the economy is going to get better as the year goes along.” The economics department at Citibank in New York estimates the value of U.S. economic output was 0.5 percent higher in February than the month before.
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Holding a replica of crosses made last year by Solidarity activists interned at a prison near Gdansk, Polish labor leader Lech Walesa attends a Holy Week service
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Baby healthy after 9 weeks in womb of legally dead mother
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Trying to simulate normal pregnancy, nurses played music and talked to a fetus as it grew for nine weeks in the womb of a brain-dead woman before being delivered safely by Caesarean section. The 3-pound infant boy was delivered after 64 days of careful monitoring in the University of California’s Moffitt Hospital by doctors, who then disconnected the lifesupport machines from his mother’s body. She expired 25 minutes later. “The baby has some mild respiratory problems but is doing quite well in the intensive care nursery,” Dr. James Goldberg said Wednesday,
King Hassan calls for summit on Mideast proposals
By The Associated Press Moroccan King Hassan has invited Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat and the leaders of Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria to an emergency meeting to discuss Mideast peace proposals, news reports said today. But the Bahrain-based Gulf News Agency said Hassan was not sure whether the other
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describing the unprecedented birth. He delivered the boy with Drs. Russell Laros and Michael Fogarty. “It was tragic, what happened to the mother, but it was also sort of exciting and happy that the baby was going to manage to live, somehow,” said Pat Willever, a nurse who attended the mother and baby until Tuesday’s birth. As the baby grew, occasionally kicking and squirming, nurses played music and talked to it, trying to simulate the sounds and sensations of a normal pregnancy. “We touched (the mother), we talked to the baby, we called him by name when we knew he was a boy. We treated him as if
leaders would accept his call for a summit in Rabat before April 15. The report said the king feared a showdown between Jordan, which is considering joining Arab-Israeli peace talks under U.S. auspices, and proSoviet Syria, which is vehemently opposed to President Reagan’s peace plan The PLO has been critical of Reagan’s proposal, which calls
New missile plan popular in Europe
LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Reagan’s offer to trim the number of nuclear missiles to be deployed in Europe if the Soviets pare their arsenal of medium-range warheads is being well received by America’s European allies. But the man who negotiated the SALT II treaty for the United States says the Soviets probably will find “there’s nothing in it for them. ’ ’ There was no immediate official response from Moscow as Reagan prepared to further explain the U.S. policy shift in a speech today to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. But American arms expert Paul Wamke, in Washington, said, “To the extent that it appears to call for equality of warheads between the United States and the Soviet Union, it would mean that the Soviets -- if they made a 50 percent cut would then be confronted with the entire deployment of American ground-launched cruise missiies and Pershing 25,” Wamke said. Reagan is en route to a fourday holiday weekend at his ranch near Santa Barbara and stopped in Los Angeles to make a speech originally billed as a major arms policy address. Administration officials had said privately that Reagan would announce in the speech the expected shift from his proposal to ban all U.S. and Soviet missiles aimed at Europe. But, when it was learned that most European newspapers would miss the
he was a baby outside, but he was inside. We just couldn’t see him,” she said. The woman, whose identity was carefully guarded by hospital officials, was declared legally dead Jan. 25 after suffering a seizure that apparently was caused by a cyst and subsequent build-up of cerebrospinal fluid in her brain. She was 27. Doctors said Wednesday they felt comfortable with ethical concerns arising from their effort, and said they would have left the fetus in place longer if it had not been for growing risk. Doctors noted the fetus had stopped growing and the mother’s condition was deteriorating.
for Palestinian self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza Strip. Arafat is known to prefer the plan endorsed by the 21member Arab League in Fez, Morocco, last year that proclaims the PLO the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Arafat was expected to fly from Damascus, Syria to Am-
speech because of holiday schedules, Reagan summoned NATO ambassadors to the White House and announced the essence of his new negotiating position before departing for the West Coast. The NATO allies, who had been consulted before the proposal was put on the negotiating table in Geneva earlier this week, said in a statement that “it represents a significant step designed to move the (talks) toward conclusion of an equal, fair and verifiable arms control agreement.” The Kremlin customarily does not respond immediately to major U.S. policy statements, and American officials said Soviet negotiators had been asked not to reject the plan out of hand without giving it adequate study. “If you look at it literally and without getting some of the details fleshed out, there’s nothing in it for them,” said Warnke, who as head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency negotiated the SALT II treaty limiting the superpowers’ deployment of longrange nuclear weapons during the Carter administration. Although SALT II was never ratified by the Senate and was denounced by Reagan when he was a presidential candidate, both sides continue to observe its provisions. Reagan originally had proposed that both the United States and Soviet Union scrap all intermediate-range nuclear
Failure to say'Yes, sir' gets teen jail sentence HOUSTON (AP) A teen-ager has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for neglecting to call a state district judge “sir.” . Judge Michael McSpadden said he imposed the sentence against Michael A. Washington, 18, partly in the interests of. maintaining decorum in his court. “I told him I want him to think of me every day he spends in the Harris County Jail,” McSpadden said. “I hope it makes an impression on him. ’ ’ The sentence, announced Tuesday, was a special term of. four years of probation and an SBOO fine imposed on Washington, who pleaded guilty to a burglary charge. Judges have the authority to impose a jail term as part of a probationary sentence. In response to the routine questions asked by a judge during a plea bargain, Washington continually answered: “Yeah,” McSpadden said. The judge warned the defendant to answer with respect, but during a subsequent response, Washington did not say “sir” and was jailed. “He said ‘Yes,’ but he didn’t say ‘Yes, sir,”’ prosecutor Elaine Bratton recalled.
man later today to discuss with Jordan’s King Hussein a possible Jordanian-Palestinian delegation for future peace talks with Israel. Hussein, who wants PLO permission to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians, has called the Arafat meeting crucial “Some people want us to say we accept the Reagan plan so that we be branded traitors,’’ Arafat told a rally in Damascus
First Calif, condor hatched in captivity
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A tiny California condor popped out of its egg with a little human help to become the first of the vanishing species to hatch in captivity, San Diego Zoo officials said early today. The chick, bald about the neck and head with a sparse covering of downy white feathers, was freed of its shell at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, said zoo spokesman Jeff Jouett. It weighed 201.9 grams about 7 ounces he said. “Apparently, it’s in good health,” Jouett said exuberantly. He said keepers have not yet determined the bird’s sex. Two birdkeepers, Cyndi Kuehler and Pat Whitman used surgical instruments and their hands to help the chick out of its light blue shell. Earlier, the rare bird had punched a hole "a bit larger than a quarter” on its own, Jouett said.
forces his so-called zero option but the Soviets rejected that. On Wednesday, he reaffirmed. that ultimate goal but said, “If there must be some, it is betterto have few than to have many.” • He therefore proposed “an interim agreement that would substantially reduce these forces to equal levels on both sides.” Moscow’s response to the zero option proposal was to suggest instead that it would reduce its force of medium-range missiles to 162, matching the number of British and French mediumrange weapons, if the United States would cancel its announced plan to begin deploying 572 single-warhead Pershing 2 and land-based cruise missiles in NATO countries in December. The United States refuses to count the British and French land-and sea-based missiles as among those at issue in the In-termediate-range Nuclear Force (INF) talks in Geneva. According to the latest U.S. count, the Soviet Union has 1,293 warheads on mediumrange missiles, including 351 SS-20 mobile rockets, each armed with three warheads, and 240 SS-4 and SS-5 singlewarhead missiles. Reagan said even if the Soviets accepted the latest proposal, the United States would go ahead with its commitment to deploy some new weapons.
on Wednesday. “Some people want us to say we reject the Reagan plan so that we be described as extremists and bloodthirsty.” “We only accept the resolutions of the Arab summit in Fez,” Arafat said. The Fez plan calls for a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital and implicitly recognizes Israel’s right to exist.
“It reached a point where it was felt that it was in the best interest of the bird to help it; break out,” said Jouett. Keepers fed the hungry bird for the first time at midnight, administering “two finely chopped mice in warm water” by hand, Jouett said. Five birdkeepers and a closed-circuit television camera monitored the progress of the tiny condor. A veterinarian was on call in case of emergency. The team of scientists had maintained an around-the-clock “egg-watch” since Monday, when the chick first poked a hole in the shell, Jouett said.; The oblong egg, about sbftimes the size of a chicken egg, was plucked from its parents* nest Feb. 23 by a team of scieatists in the rugged back country of the condor sanctuary neat Ventura.