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THE BANNERGRAPHIC January 15,1992

Abdominal thrusts may improve CPR CHICAGO (AP) More heart attack victims might be saved if abdominal thrusts were given between chest thrusts during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, researchers reported today. In the study, conducted in 1990 at St Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, NJ., a total of 103 patients received CPR some more than once. About half received standard CPR, and half CPR with chest thrusts. OF THOSE WHO received the standard technique, 27 percent were revived, compared with 51 percent who received the Interposed Abdominal Counterpulsation, or abdominal thrusts, the researchers said. IN STANDARD CPR, the chest is rhythmically compressed with hand thrusts, forcing blood from the heart. The alternative technique involves a second person pushing down on the abdominal cavity between chest thrusts. Researchers said the abdominal thrusts may speed the flow of blood to vital organs and augment the amount of blood returning to the heart.

EC recognizes Croatia, Slovenia

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) The European Community agreed today that its 12 member nations would recognize the Yugoslav republics of Slovenia and Croatia as independent countries. I Belgium and Britain immediately joined Germany, which I prompted the EC move, in recognizing the new countries. A state- ; ment from the British government , said the other nine European I Community members would do so J by the end of the day. ; BUT THE EC held off such action for two other breakaway I republics, Bosnia-Hercegovina and : Macedonia, Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens said. < The other two Yugoslav I republics, Serbia and Montenegro, did not ask for recognition and

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Yeltsin getting earful from Russians angry over prices

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) Boris N. Yeltsin is getting an earful from demoralized shoppers as he tours Russia, and news reports said today that he ordered the director of one meat factory fired for sabotaging his reforms. Consumers are angry that in addition to soaring prices, the Russian president’s efforts to spur a shift to a market-based economy have not put more goods on the shelves. YELTSIN HAS vowed not to back away from the reforms and is urging patience, saying they need six to eight months to produce results. “All civilized countries have gone through this,” Yeltsin told about 300 people in front of a sewing factory Tuesday in the city of Novozybkov, about 240 miles southwest of Moscow. Today, Yeltsin arrived in St. Petersburg, where earlier this month an angry crowd shouted for his resignation and blocked the main street of Nevsky Prospect after a meat store ran out of supplies. AT A MEAT store Tuesday in the Bryansk region of southern Russia, Yeltsin accused state suppliers of undermining his reforms by producing high-cost luxury goods when staples are scarce. “These swindlers are doing it on

want to preserve the Yugoslav federation. The EC move was another major step in the disintegration of the patchwork Balkan nation, officials said. “Yugoslavia is now in a state of dissolution,” said Johan Verbeke, a Belgian foreign affairs spokesman. EYSKENS SAID he believed the EC recognition of Croatia could contribute to ending the 6-month-old civil war there. However, some EC diplomats fear early recognition might intensify the civil war, which has claimed the lives of thousands of people since summer. While Slovenia was recognized without question, the community nations needed a commitment from President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia to respect the rights of minority Serbs before agreeing to recognition, officials said. “THERE IS AN agreement among the 12 (EC nations) to recognize Slovenia and Croatia,” Eyskens told local radio. “It’s offi-

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purpose to frame us, setting these prices!” Yeltsin said in an exchange shown on Russian television. “The people are very displeased with the prices. The prices are not acceptable,” interrupted one of the shopkeepers. YELTSIN ALSO expressed outrage at the high price of smoked sausage pounds and said meat-process-ing plants should produce more low-cost goods like boiled sausage. “I think this is a provocation?” the president said, his voice rising. “The head of the meat processing factory ought to be fired! Thrown outof his job!” Indeed, Yeltsin later ordered that the factory director be fired, Russian media reported today. As president, he has the power to fire most state employees. HE WAS ALSO said to order the firing of the deputy chairman of the local committee dealing with the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident The panel has been criticized for failing to ensure worker safety and as being too slow to build housing for people evacuated from the contaminated zone. The Russian president’s freemarket reforms stripped away decades of strict Kremlin controls

cial now.” Germany, Iceland, Ukraine, and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have already recognized Slovenia and Croatia, and the Vatican recognized the heavily Roman Catholic republics this week. An EC official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the commission report on the republics’ commitment to human rights and democracy raised “serious objections” in the case of Bosnia-Her-cegovina, a Yugoslav republic with a mixed ethnic and religious population. IN THE CASE of Macedonia, Eyskens said that if it resolved a dispute with neighboring Greece, recognition could be forthcoming within days. “The Greeks just don’t want their Macedonian province to become part of the Macedonia of an ex-Yugoslavia,” Eyskens said. Last month, Germany spurred the EC to set today as the deadline to recognize any of the six Yugoslav republics that applied and ad-

on prices to curb inflation and stimulate production. But shoppers are complaining not only about the spectacularly high cost of goods but that many products are not on the shelves. YELTSIN SAID Tuesday that stores should be allowed to buy food directly from producers. He did not elaborate but seemed to be talking about eliminating the middlemen the monopolies and bureaucrats he accuses of trying to wreck reforms. The Associated Press Moscow Marketbasket, a weekly survey of 15 food and basic consumer items, showed that state store prices for staples such as macaroni and smoked sausage doubled from the week before. A POUND OF macaroni, 1.1 rubles in state stores on Jan. 2 and 3.2 rubles on Jan. 8, cost 7.58 rubles on Tuesday, meaning a Russian at the average 960-ruble monthly wage would have to work 1.38 hours for iL In a further sign of Russia’s economic collapse, a Moscow official said industry in the capital was virtually at a standstill since the start of the year because factories in other former Soviet republics had stopped supplying raw materials.

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here to democratic and human rights guidelines. “THE GERMAN policy on Yugoslavia has proved correct," Germany’s foreign minister, Hans-

Pocketbook issues a priority for voters

WASHINGTON (AP) The economy and jobs are the top anxieties of nearly two-thirds of American voters, according to a poll released today. Republicans deserve most of the blame for the nation’s poor economy, said 44 percent of the respondents, while 19 percent picked the Democrats as the politi-

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Crime doesn’t pay Robber can’t duck police; he was stuck in duct work

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) A man who tried to rob a restaurant by breaking in through a rooftop exhaust duct got stuck in an elbow joint and hung upside down for five hours, police said. When a waitress arrived at Mr. Steak to open up at about 6 a.m. Tuesday, she heard someone yelling, “Help! Help me! Dial 911! Dial 911!” “I HAD NO idea where it was coming from. It terrified me, to say the least,” said Judy Me-

Forger who faxed his way out of jail is arrested

PHOENIX (AP) Police caught up with a forger who escaped from prison last month by having a fake release order faxed to his jailers, authorities said. Jean Paul Barrett, 27, was captured Tuesday after he allegedly tried to withdraw nearly $5,000 from a checking account he had opened with a bad check. BARRETT GOT out of the Pima County Jail in Tucson on Dec. 13 after jailers received a

Dietrich Genscher, said in a radio interview. “We’ve said for months that if the community decided on recognition ... that would initiate a process

cal party most responsible, the poll said. BUT WHEN voters were asked which institution was most responsible the Republican White House or the Democratic Congress both branches took equal heat, being targeted by 33 percent each. Another 17 percent said both institutions caused the mess together. The poll, which surveyed 1,000 registered voters from Dec. 11-13, was a joint effort by Republican pollster Ed Goeas and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. In the poll, 94 percent said they considered themselves middleclass. Democrats in Congress were seen as being pro-middle class over President Bush by a 2-to-l margin, 49 percent to 24 percent, the poll showed. TODAY’S FINDINGS were the second in a series of “Battleground 1992” surveys Goeas and Lake were conducting. “The vast middle class exposes fertile ground for Democrats,” said Lake. “The Democratic message of concern for the average American and the ‘squeezed’ middle class

Call, who called 911 and fled the restaurant, locking the door on her way out. Emergency workers tied a rope to the man’s ankles and pulled him back up onto the roof. They took him, covered in grease, to a hospital, where he was admitted in fair condition with possible back injuries. Police said burglary charges would be filed against the man, a 27-year-old cook at the restaurant.

faxed court document ordering that he be freed. The document had a judge’s forged signature. The mistake was discovered three days later. Barrett had been serving a 33year sentence for forgery and fraud. After his release, procedures were changed to require jail employees to verify release orders by telephone.

of rethinking” about the civil war, he said. Other countries, such as the United States, are not expected to give immediate recognition.

will resonate strongly in today’s threatening economic environment.” But Goeas noted that a June survey they did showed just the opposite that by a 2-to-l margin, Republicans were considered more likely to help the middle class, he said. THE PERCEPTION of who’s going to help the middle class reversed itself during four months of Bush-bashing and Republicans sitting on the sidelines, Goeas said. The December survey found 64 percent view the economy, joblessness and other pocketbook issues as their top concern. Twentyfour percent put “lifestyle” issues such as education, crime and drugs at the top of their anxiety list. That marks a dramatic turnaround from June, when more people cerned about lifestyle issues and just 39 percent listed the economy as the top concern. MORE VOTERS, 26 percent, picked wasteful government spending as the primary cause for the nation’s economic troubles. Unfair trade practices followed with 12 percent, while other causes split the rest