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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1981)
inter/national news From MooclotoJ Frooo roport* Poles dump party leader WARSAW, Poland Poland s Communist Party on Sunday ousted moderate leader Stamslaw Kama after 14 tur bulent months in office and called for an "immediate halt" to any strikes by Solidarity, the official PAP news agency reported Premier Woiciech Jaruzelski, an army general who also is the defense minister, was promptly elected to replace Kama as party first secretary, the news agency said It was believed Jaruzelski would hold all three posts at least until the next meeting of the party s Central Committee which could be called soon In Washington. State Depart ment spokeswoman Susan Pittman said It's too soon for a full assessment, but we note that as minister of defense and since February, as premier. Jaruzelski has associated him self with a policy of seeking negotiated solutions with Solidarity " the independent labor federation Previous shakeups in the Polish party and government have been accompanied by rumors of possible Soviet inter vention, and Pittman said there was no indication of unusal Soviet troop movements along the Polish border Reagan admits to recession WASHINGTON Pres Reagan said Sunday that the United States is in a recession It was the first time anyone in his administration was willing to make such an assessment I think there's a slight reces sion and I hope a short reces sion," Reagan said on the White House lawn before departing by helicopter to meet with French President Francois Mitterrand at Williamsburg Va "I think everyone agrees on that The president's comment caught his Council of Economic Advisers and other aides by surprise As late as Saturday, White House spokesman David Gergen had refused to use the word recession to characterize the poorly performing economy The government reported Friday that industrial production fell 0 8 percent in September, the second monthly decline in a row, and was now at the lowest level in more than a year Unemployment climbed from 7 3 to 7 5 percent last month Jerry Jordan, a member of the president's Council of Eco nomic Advisers and the admin istration’s chief economic for ecaster, said last week that un employment could reach higher McKenzie Coffee Co. 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Ilfh M2 2071 than 8 percent by early next year Joblessness hasn't been that high since the end of the 1974-75 recession, which has been called the most severe economic downturn this country has experienced since the Great Depression of the 1930s WPPSS officials seek solution SEATTLE Officials of Washington s public utilities worked frantically over the weekend, trying to salvage a plan to mothball two Washington Public Power Sup ply System nuclear plants The effort followed the an nouncement Friday that Port land General Electric Co would not pay its share of a proposed $150 million mothball plan PGE was one of four private utilities involved in the plan The others are Puget Sound Power & Light Co Washington Water Power and Pacific Power and Light Co On Saturday representatives of the 88 participating public utility districts, private utilities and direct-service customers such as aluminum companies were asking each other if en ough support still exists for the mothballing plan A blue-ribbon panel appoint ed by Washington and Oregon governors has recommended mothballing the two plants at Hanford and Satsop WPPSS Managing Director Bob Ferguson suggested abandoning the plants, a plan that would would cost about S3 billion There is extreme interest in keeping (the plants) alive by mothballing because of the lower cost, said Jim Boldt. di rector of the Washington Public Utilities Association Israel mourns Dayan’s death NAHALAL, Israel Moshe Dayan. Israels soldier-statesman who fought as hard for peace as he did for victory on the battlefield, was buried Sunday in a simple fu neral at his boyhood village in the Galilee Thousands of people lined the road as the cortege drove to the little cemetery on a wooded hilltop overlooking a freshly harvested field A throng of friends, relatives and dignitaries pressed around the grave Dayan led Israel s army through three wars as chief of staff and, later, defense minis ter Then, as foreign minister, he helped negotiate peace with Egypt The gaunt 66-year-old statesman with the world famous eyepatch suffered a heart attack Friday at Sheba Save Big Money IIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIMIIIII Make your Thanksgiving & Christmas reservations now. EUGENE TRAVEL 687-2824 Hospital outside Tel Aviv, where he died in the arms of his wife. Rachel Greek leftists win elections ATHENS, Greece The left-wing Panhellenic Socialist Movement defeated the conservative New Democracy Party of Premier George Rallis in crucial elec tions Sunday that signal a radical shift in this NATO nation s pro-Western stance Official early returns indicat ed that Andreas Papandreou's Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) would have about 47 percent of the popular vote, more than enough to control the 300-member single-chamber Parliament under Greece’ com plicated election system Pasok is pledged to withdraw Greece from the NATO military alliance, close down American bases and call a referendum on whether the country should pull r out of the 10-nation European Common Market Computer analysis of the in complete returns showed Pasok getting 171 seats to 111 seats for New Democracy and 14 seats for the Moscow-oriented Communist Party 1 ** German AUTO SERVICE VWs-MERCEDES-BMWs DATSUN-TOYOTA-AUDI Reliable service for your foreign car 342-2912 2025 Franklin Blvd Eugene. Oregon NATURAL VISION IMPROVEMENT l)r. Jeffrey A. Morey, Optometrist, will present a slide show and discussion explaining theories behind eye exercise approaches to natural vision improvement. A question and answer session will follow. This discussion will take place Monday, October 19 at 7 P.M. at: Rainbow Optics, 766 E. 13th, 1 Block from Campus 343-3333 Rainbow i 1 Optics' WHAT DOES THE OUTDOOR PROGRAM HAVE FOR YOU? Como to the Open House and discover! Monday. October 19. 7 pm FREE SLIDE SHOW AMO DISCUSSiOM UNIVERSITY STREET t A WEEK AT HOOKERS! MONDAY* BULLDAWG NIGHT entitles you to a glass of Bull m ¥ " and a hot dog for only .75. Enjoy Monday night football on a large screen T V. f f ^ iccnAV* From 7'9 pm buy a 32_ounce 9,ass for $3 00^5 M and we keep filling it for two hours. J WEDNESDAY: Ladies n'9ht with 25 beer w THURSDAY: AI1 tbe STEAMER clams you " can eat with salad and bread. Only $4.99 PUIM « For $9.95 enjoy a T-Bone steak ■**"^^" * and all the beer you can drink ^ ^ with your meal. Any Friday f , or Saturday from .6-9 pm.^ 'I ALSO ENJOY LIVE MUSIC, WEDNESDAY . SATURDAY \ \ C"\ P*" Oo5 <n O' i?5
