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Report predicts
worsening economy
continues to worsen
SALEM
A draft forecast for the state
economy predicts more unem
ployment and inflation showers
with few glimpses of sunshine
The report released Monday
was prepared by the state Ex
ecutive Department for the Nov
17 meeting of the Governor's
Council of Economic Advisors
The council will review the
economic assumptions which
will be used by the state to
produce a 1981-83 revenue es
timate
Highlights of the draft eco
nomic forecast include the fol
lowing
• Employment is expected to
keep declining until the first
quarter of 1982 and then grow
at a rate that would be the most
laggard post-recession
recovery in Oregon The drop in
employment during the current
quarter would mark the seventh
quarterly loss since the first
quarter of 1980
— Housing activities during
the fourth quarter of 1981 are
expected to decline 43 8
percent, following a 63 1 per
cent drop in the previous
quarter
• Personal Income after adjust
ing for inflation would expand
only 1 percent in 1981 and 1.5
percent in 1982 after declining
0 6 percent in 1980
• Inflation reached an annual
rate of 15 4 percent in the third
quarter of 1981 The report says
higher mortgage interest rates,
medical care, food and trans
portation contributed to the
third quarter of 1981 rise
Poles dismiss
state prosecutor
WARSAW, Poland
The government dismissed
Prosecutor-General Lucian
Czubinski on Monday, the of
ficial news agency reported
The move was seen as a victory
for the independent union
Solidarity which had accused
Czubinski of harassment
Czubinski, a former army
general, was replaced by Fran
ciszek Rusek. the PAP news
agency said Rusek has
specialized in labor relations as
president of the Supreme
Court's labor and social welfare
chamber
At Solidarity's national head
quarters m Gdansk, union
leaders drafted a six-point
agenda for talks with the
government about Poland's
economic and social ills
A union spokesman said
Solidarity would like the talks to
begin Friday He said Solidarity
wants mass media access, free
local elections, judicial in
dependence, creation of a
social-economic council, eco
nomic reforms, and compensa
tion to low-paid workers to off
set price increases
Solidarity leader Lech Wale
sa, who did not attend the
meeting, urged workers to be
flexible in their demands
because nobody can eat
slogans or ideology,-' PAP
reported
In another development,
provincial authorities balked
Monday at ratifying an
agreement to end Poland's big
gest regional strike since
Solidarity was formed 14
months ago. a union
spokesman said
Senators press
for budget plan
WASHINGTON
Senate Republican leaders
pressed a reluctant Pres Ron
ald Reagan on Monday to sup
port a three-year budget
balancing plan that includes a
scaled-down, $48 billion tax
hike
Congressional sources said
the president's aides, meeting
privately with key Republican
senators, advocated delaying
discussion of both tax increases
or cuts in benefit programs,
such as food stamps and
Medicare or Medicaid, until
after the first of the year
"They want a hold on every
thing," said one source who
asked not to be identified This
official said the administration is
concerned in part that the
president would suffer a defeat
in the Democratic-controlled
House of Representatives if
deep cuts in benefit programs
or tax hikes were raised
Burma appoints
new president
RANGOON, Burma
U San Yu. a 63-year-old re
tired army general and veteran
politican, became president
Monday, taking over from Gen
Ne Win, the ailing leader who
ruled this Southeast Asian na
tion for 19 years
San Yu was the government's
No 2 man before he was cho
sen by the newly elected
475-member Parliament to re
place Ne Win, who remains
chairman of the only party, the
Burma Socialist Program Party
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National debt
only $998 billion
WASHINGTON
Two weeks after surging past
the $1 trillion mark for the first
time, the national debt has
quietly slipped back into a mere
12 digits — about
$998,782,000,000, Treasury
Department officials said Mon
day
But it’s hardly the start of a
trend
The federal debt is financed
through Treasury bills, notes,
bonds and other ‘debt in
struments'' paying a wide varie
ty of interest rates, being sold in
huge or tiny amounts every day
and maturing on a wide range of
dates from now on into the
second decade of the next cen
tury
Every now and then a day
occurs when the Treasury hap
pens to retire more maturing
debt than it issues in new debt
But those days are the excep
tions, and the upward trend of
the national debt is well-estab
lished
Last Thursday, the most
recent day for which figures are
available, a big batch of matur
ing debt took more than $5 bil
lion off the “debt subject to
congressional limit."
Saudis claim
Israelis invade
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia claimed Monday
that Israeli warplanes invaded
Saudi airspace over the king
dom's northwest regions and
were driven back by Saudi jet
fighters
Israel refused comment
The location of the purported
violation, about 105 miles from
the kingdom s Red Sea coast, is
in the vicinity of the Tabuk mili
tary air base
In Washington, President
Reagan was informed about
9:30 a m EST that Israeli jets
had entered Saudi airspace and
left "on their own accord,"
Deputy White House press
secretary Larry Speakes said
Speakes would not comment
further
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Marge Pierey
To be ot use
The people l love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim oil with sure strokes almost out ot sight
They seem to become natives ot that element
the black sleek heads ot seals
bouncing like halt-submerged balls
I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a
heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience
who strain in the mud and the muck to move
things forward,
who do what has to be done again and again
I want to be with people who submerge
m the task who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
and work in the line and haul in their places,
who are not parlor generals and tieid deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the tire be put out
The work ot the world is common as mud
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident
Greek amphoras tor wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used
The pitcher cries tor water to carry
and a person tor work that is real