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Timber aid unsure,
says head forester
PORTLAND
The man who heads the U S
Forest Service said here Wed
nesday that he's not sure his
agency should take any further
steps to help the ailing wood
products industry in the Pacific
Northwest
R Max Peterson told a news
conference that the Forest Ser
vice should be careful not to
take any action that might make
the situation worse
Peterson said that Norm
Gould, director of timber man
agement for the Forest Service,
had spent several weeks in
Oregon and Washington study
ing the problem
He said the agency would
decide in a few weeks whether
to seek more authority to ease
the problems faced by pur
chasers of national forest
timber
The Forest Service already
has decided to grant selective
three-year extensions on some
existing timber sales contracts
Extensions were granted due to
high prices bid on the sales
several years ago and the cur
rent poor market conditions
Timber sale prices are ex
tremely high because of high
bids when the contracts were
sold several years ago The bids
were made on the assumption
of continuing high inflation and
corresponding increases in
prices
But wood products prices
have fallen and there is no way
for many timber companies to
break even on many existing
sales
Inflation level
dips to 7 percent
WASHINGTON
Analysts predicted Wednes
day that inflation at the
wholesale level would close out
the year at around 7 percent,
the slowest rate of increase
since 1977. after the govern
ment reported November s in
crease at a moderate 6.3 per
cent annual pace
That marked the eighth con
secutive month that inflation at
the wholesale level held be
neath double digits One in
dependent economist called it
' very good news' which signals
that "we re on a new plateau "
The Labor Department s of
ficial barometer — the Producer
Price Index for finished goods —
went up a seasonally adjusted
0 5 percent in November com
pared with the 0 6 percent ad
vance in October
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Hijack drama
ends in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon
A 52-hour hijack drama in
which Lebanese Moslem mili
tants seized a Libyan jetliner
and forced it to fly to four coun
tries on a 7,500-mile odyssey
ended early Thursday, Lebanon
state radio reported The radio
had said earlier that an
agreement had been struck
under which the hijackers
would give up and their 35 hos
tages would be freed
The officials, who declined to
be identified, said the hijackers
who seized control of the plane
on a flight from Switzerland to
Libya on Monday gave them
selves up to authorities at 12:30
a m (5:30 p.m EST). It was not
immediately known what hap
pened to the sky pirates after
their surrender
They said the hijackers sur
rendered to Syrian peace
keeping troops, who have
been in Lebanon since the
1975-76 civil war
Lebanese state radio report
ed that the aircraft was being
readied for takeoff to Larnaca,
Cyprus, as part of an agreement
to end the hijack drama It said
some of the passengers chose
to remain in Beirut and two
buses were sent to the plane to
collect them
Federal jobs open
to air controllers
WASHINGTON
Pres Reagan, citing a tradi
tion that individuals deserve to
be treated with compassion,”
opened the door Wednesday for
11,500 fired air traffic con
trollers to again seek federal
jobs — but not in the flight
towers
“I do not believe that those
who forefeited their jobs as
controllers should be fore
closed from other federal em
ployment,” Reagan said as he
lifted a three-month federal hir
ing ban against the controllers
who launched an illegal strike
last August
Transportation Secretary
Drew Lewis told reporters that
none of the dismissed 11,500
individuals would be accepted
at the Federal Aviation Admin
istration, where they previously
worked
He acknowledged, ironically,
that some of the fired workers
eventually might work as mili
tary controllers The FAA has
picked up some of the slack in
its depleted work force by
borrowing from the military
Sakharov ends
his hunger strike
MOSCOW
The Soviet KGB secret police
told the daughter-in-law of An
drei Sakharov on Wednesday
the Nobel laureate had ended
his 17-day hunger strike in exile
and that she would be allowed
to go to the United States to join
her husband
Liza Alexeyeva, 26, said she
was summoned to KGB head
quarters Wednesday afternoon
and was told that Sakharov and
his wife, Yelena Bonner, halted
their hunger strike after being
informed permission had been
granted for her to emigrate
The Sakharovs began the fast
Nov 22 in Gorky to protest
Soviet refusal to allow Alex
eyeva to leave the country
The Soviets announced
Friday that the Sakharovs had
been hospitalized to safeguard
their health
House approves
gas pipeline bill
WASHINGTON
The House approved 233 to
173 on Wednesday a bill which
hands industry the authority to
start billing consumers for a yet
unbuilt $43-billion pipeline to
bring Alaska natural gas to the
lower 48 states, the largest
private construction project in
history
But the measure, already
passed by the Senate, still faced
an obstacle before going to the
White House A Senate oppo
nent threatened to filibuster the
usual formality of putting the
House measure under the Sen
ate bill's title, even though both
bills are identical.
The legislative package
waives existing antitrust and
pricing laws to allow consumers
to be billed for the pipeline
before it is completed, a step
which industry says it critical to
attracting the massive capital
needed for construction The
line would virtually dwarf the
existing trans-Alaska oil
pipeline
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