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Soviet reformer claims the summit delay is a warning to Gorbachev

MOSCOW (AP) The delay of the U.S.-Soviet summit should serve as a warning to Mikhail S. Gorbachev that his new hard line threatens relations with Washington and his accomplishments as president, a leading Soviet reformer said today. “I think this can be a very strong signal for our president and for our rulers in general that the result of their turn back can be a restoration of the Cold War,” Moscow Deputy Mayor Sergei B. Stankevich said in an interview with The Associated Press at Moscow City Hall. THE SUMMIT between Gorbachev and President Bush that had been set for Moscow on Feb. 11-13 was put off Monday, largely because U.S. officials are preoccupied with the Persian Gulf war. Officials also cited problems completing a strategic arms treaty. Though it was not specifically mentioned, the United States has also been critical of a Soviet crackdown in the pro-indepen-dence Baltics that has left at least 19 people dead since Jan. 13. Stankevich said that since the end of December, Gorbachev has tailored his policies for hardliners in the Communist Party, armed forces and KGB who oppose his earlier reforms. SOVIET GENERALS, bitter over arms cuts, the withdrawal from Eastern Europe and efforts to trim their budgets, have been maddened by the war in the Persian Gulf, in part because it pits the United States against a longtime Kremlin client, Iraq. Stankevich said the Soviet Union has an enormous army

Unemployed scour job market like never before

WASHINGTON (AP) The nation’s unemployed are having to dig deeper than ever to find jobs that are surviving the recession, partly because many companies are skipping high-profile help wanted ads to avoid a flood of job-hungry applicants. “The good jobs are not on the street, they’re not showing up in the newspaper,” said Pat Southerland, president of Robert Half of Washington, a placement firm that specializes in financial personnel. “The supply of people available greatly exceeds demand, and people just don’t want to be deluged with responses.” SOUTHERLAND and other placement consultants said job hunters instead should employ more networking asking friends and associates for job tips and working the telephone. Employment experts said Americans searching for work are probably finding that some jobs seem impervious to recession the nation still needs its accountants, plumbers, nurses and bill collectors. Still, the openings are tough to find and the competition is fiercer than ever. “If you were good before, you have to be excellent today,” said Ron De Sure of Job Direction Inc., a nationwide employment firm based in Fairlawn, Ohio. “You have to be doubly trained to get the same job as you did a year ago. The employers want twice for the money.” THE JOB MARKET has tightened markedly in recent months as the tumbling U.S. economy forced employers to lay off workers or scale back hiring. Since October nearly 1 million people have joined the ranks of the unemployed. Payroll cutbacks have hit nearly all sectors, from factories to department stores to construction sites. Alan Sperling, for instance, suddenly found himself jobless after the company that bought out his Washington wholesale produce company the slowdown forced

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VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS Fears Soviet crackdown

“considering our economic situation and our international situation, and this army tries to defend itself and preserve itself.” By postponing the summit, said Stankevich, the United States in effect was warning Communist traditionalists that “almost all of the fruits from the previous period, including the peace dividend, can be sacrificed in favor of their ideological triumph.” IN A SEPARATE AP interview, Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis said he hoped the failure to mention the Baltic crackdown in postponing the summit will not encourage the Soviet military to take new steps against Lithuania. “I hope that such a formulation (in the official statement) will not encourage the Soviet military to take new aggressive action ..." he said.

him to sell let him go. “I had four interviews and dropped off 11 resumes yesterday. It was ‘We’ll get back to you, we’ll get back to you.’ There’s just nothing out there,” said Sperling, 41, who was filling out unemployment claims for the first time in his life. “THINGS CAME TO a screeching halt pretty much in November and December. It’s tough right now people arc either freezing (hiring) or laying off,” said Lisa Morgan of NRI Arrow Resources, a Washington placement and recruiting firm. Even a mild recession could cost the nation another 1 million jobs in the months ahead, many analysts predict, meaning even steeper competition for fewer jobs. While the job losses have been broad-based, some fields still have work to offer, according to employment experts around the country. NURSES, ACCOUNTANTS and computer programmers still are on the most-sought list, according to recent help wanted ads from newspapers in Los Angeles, St. Louis, Phoenix and Washington. Dental assistants, legal secretaries and auto mechanics are also in demand. A smattering of other jobs are commonly listed too, from plumbers to custodians to civil engineers to truck drivers. “There are jobs across the board there just aren’t as many of them,” Southerland said. One area that has been in a recent boom largely because of the sour economy is the collection business. “BEFORE, IF YOU had outstanding bills, you might have let it slide an extra month or two. Now, businesses can’t afford to do that,” Morgan said. Help wanted ads in newspapers have thinned in recent months. The Los Angeles Times said employment lineage in its classified section this month is off 40 percent from a year ago.

Bush speech to be thematic on what war means; no ‘wish lists’

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush scuttled plans to showcase his national agenda in tonight’s State of the Union address, choosing instead to talk generally about the Persian Gulf war and its effect on the country. Perhaps lost in what the White House calls “a status report” on the war will be suggested measures on crime, education, housing, drugs and the economy, officials said. “THE SPEECH WILL reflect the president’s thinking on the conflict, what it means for the country, what it means for the economy and our domestic agenda as well,” said his spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater. But don’t look for too many specifics on that agenda, Fitzwater added. “It will be more thematic in nature than it will be listing of initiatives and legislative proposals,” he said. The specific proposals such as bank regulation overhaul and another to encourage increased energy production will come later, either as part of next week’s budget submission or as separate pieces of legislation. NOR IS THE president expected to outline an anti-recession package as part of tonight’s address, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Bush worked on the speech extensively on Monday, adding more lines on the gulf conflict and other “final touches,” Fitzwater said. Today he was to review and rehearse the speech, one of the most important of his presidency. Bush is scheduled to deliver the nationally broadcast address to a joint session of Congress at 9 p.m. EST. AN ABC-Washington Post poll published today shows the war has boosted Bush’s approval rating to a new high, with 79 percent of 1,015 adult respondents giving him a favorable mark on his presidency and 81 percent approving his handling of the gulf conflict. However, only 45 percent approved of his handling of the economy, while 49 percent disapproved. In September, 53 percent approved. The new poll had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

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The president is required by the Constitution to “from time to time give the Congress information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient” BUT WHEN THE state of the union is a state of war, it puts unusual strains on the annual presidential address usually a domestic wish list. Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union of Jan. 6, 1942 a month after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor ignored the domestic agenda entirely, telling Congress

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“We must face the fact of a hard war, a long war, a bloody war, a costly war. ... It means cutting luxuries and other nonessentials.” Lyndon Johnson went to the other extreme. He gave the unpopular war in Vietnam second billing in his Jan. 12, 19*56, address, saying “this nation is mighty enough, its society is healthy enough, its people are strong enough to pursue our goals in the rest of the world while still building a great society here at home.” JOHNSON WENT on to ask Congress to “carry forward with full vigor” a variety of “Great

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Society” health, education and poverty programs. Bush was expected to stress “empowerment” programs to give individuals receiving government services more self-determination, including vouchers to help public housing tenants buy their homes. A supporter of parents choosing schools for their children, Bush may expand that to allow parents to choose between public and private schools. The president has openly praised a controversial Milwaukee program that uses public money to put poor children in private schools.

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