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Americans divided,
says economic poll
NEW YORK
Americans are divided sharp
ly over whether Pres. Reagan's
economic program is helping or
hurting the nation, the latest
Associated Press-NBC News
poll says
Unemployment remained the
top choice for the most impor
tant economic problem for the
government to help control, but
inflation was still the problem
that affected more people per
sonally.
In the March 29-30 poll, a
scientific random telephone
sampling of 1,603 adults across
the country, 37 percent said
they think Reagan's program is
helping, while 36 percent said it
is hurting. The rest said they
were not sure.
The president has vowed to
stick with his tax and spending
cuts and a tight money supply
despite high unemployment and
interest rates and a federal
budget deficit that is larger than
expected
The poll also said public con
fidence in the president’s econ
omic program is slipping Fif
teen percent said they have
more confidence in it now than
a year ago, while 34 percent
said they have less and 49 per
cent said their feelings are the
same Two percent weren't
sure
Unemployment, meanwhile,
remained the most important
economic problem for the
government to help control: 45
percent said unemployment, 27
percent said interest rates, 24
percent said inflation and 4 per
cent were undecided
At the same time, inflation
affected most people personal
ly: 49 percent said inflation, 30
percent said interest rates, 17
percent said unemployment and
4 percent were unsure
Private business
pays governors’ tab
SALEM
Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh has
asked private business to pick
up most of the tab for the Wes
tern Governors' Conference to
be held June 2-5 at Salishan
Lodge
Because of Oregon's budget
crunch, the governor has for
bidden use of state funds to pay
for the conference, says Denny
Miles. Atiyeh's administrative
assistant for communications
Instead, he's set up a nonprofit,
tax-exempt corporation which is
soliciting money to pay the bills
Governors from 17 western
states and territories in the
Pacific have been invited to the
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meeting, along with the
premiers of four Canadian
provinces and the commis
sioner of the Yukon Territory
Representatives of the
Reagan administration and top
industrial leaders also are
scheduled to attend Topics for
discussion include food
production in the West,
Canadian-U S relations, hous
ing and the economy, interna
tional trade and New Feder
alism
Atiyeh's experiment marks
the first time a state hosting the
annual meeting has avoided
paying the overhead for the
conference out of tax dollars.
Miles said He estimated the
cost at $100,000, of which
$35,000 has already been
raised
Miles said Oregon taxpayers
will be paying the salaries of
Atiyeh's staff assigned to work
on the conference, but other
costs will be borne by par
ticipants and Western
Governors' Conference Inc.,
the nonprofit corporation
Iranians mobilize
‘kiddie corps’
DEZFUL, Iran
“See this lithe boy He is one
of our fighters This little boy
helped fight and capture these
big men.”
Speaking at this frontline out
post of the Iran-lraq war was a
spokesman for the Iranian army
Standing beside him was a boy,
described as 13 years old The
"big men” were 2,200 Iraqi pri
soners and the boy was one of
their guards
The boy, the spokesman said,
is one of thousands trained for
combat and other war duties
Some, he said, have already
excelled in combat
Iranian press accounts tell of
child warriors who cleared a
mine field by marching across it,
knowing they could die in a sin
gle step
Martyrdom is highly esteemed
by Iran’s Shiite Moslems and a
soldier becomes a martyr if
killed in the war with Iraq
because it regarded as an ex
tension of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini's Islamic revolution
The 13-year-old introduced to
reporters was armed with a
U.S.-made assault rifle and was
said by the army spokesman to
have helped in Iran's offensive
in which the Iraqis were pushed
back 24 miles
The young irregulars are part
of a new militia called 'Baseej''
(Mobilization), a virtual kiddie
corps that receives arms train
ing from the more adult Revolu
tionary Guards
The Baseej recruits help dis
tribute food and control traffic
and sometimes patrol the
streets at nighi.
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