2The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, September 8, 1988
World and Nation
iresideotoal; candidates trade jab's
From Associated Press reports
Republican George Bush por
trayed Democrat Michael Dukakis as
anti-defense Wednesday while say
ing"! do notquestion his patriotism."
Dukakis told a college audience the
vice president was "right there all the
time" when the administration cut
grants and loans for students.
Bush caused a momentary stir at
an American Legion convention in
Louisville, Ky., when he mistakenly
referred to the day as the anniversary
of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor.
"I wonder how many remember
today is Pearl Harbor Day," Bush
told the veterans. "Forty-seven years
ago to this day we were hit and hit
hard at Pearl Harbor and we were
not ready."
He went on, but then, alerted by
the murmuring among the 6,000
veterans in the audience. Bush
abruptly stopped and said: "Did I say
Sept. 7? Sorry about that."
The attack was on Dec. 7, 1941.
Bush said Dukakis would "cancel
and delay our strategic moderniza
tion with what amounts to an unde
clared unilateral freeze."
"Let me be clear," he went on. "I
do not question his patriotism. But
patriotism is not the issue. The issue
is how best to deter war, to keep the
peace, to fulfill our country's special
responsibility as leader of the free
world."
Democratic presidential nominee
Dukakis spoke at Kean College in
Union, N.J., and asked, "Where was
George Bush while his administration .
was doing its best to slam the door
of college opportunity in the face of
millions of young people across this
country? . .
"George was right there all the
time," Dukakis said. "Not doing and
not saying a thing."
The Massachusetts governor said
he and his running mate Lloyd
Bentsen "are going to stop the assault
on college loans and grants, and we're
going to stop it cold."
Dukakis described his own prop
osal under which the federal govern
ment would guarantee bank loans to
college students with repayment
based on a percentage of future
earnings and extending over a per
son's working life.
Bush has proposed allowing par
ents to earn interest tax-free on U.S.
savings bonds to help pay for college,
but he has not suggested any overhaul
of the loan program.
The Reagan administration has
already launched a small, experimen
tal income-contingent loan program,
with repayments pegged to student's
income in later life.
Bentsen and Republican vice pre
sidential nominee Dan Quayle tended
to Senate business. "
Opposition' forces yirge strike in -.Burma
From Associated Press reports
RANGOON, Burma Mobs
plundered government offices and
warehouses Wednesday, and state
radio said security forces shot five
looters. '
Opposition leaders called for a
nationwide general strike against 26
years of repressive one-party rule on
Thursday. Leaders hoped for the
largest of the many mass protests that
have driven two governments from
office in less than two months.
State-run Rangoon Radio
reported looting in 38 areas of the
capital Tuesday and Wednesday. It
said securitv forces shot and killed
five people, wounded six and arrested
88 looters.
The radio urged people to report
looters to police and said more than
$43 million in state property had been
plundered since the beginning of
August.
An earlier broadcast said security
forces would "open fire to impose
control" if looting continued, but the
order would not apply to peaceful
anti-government demonstrations.
Soldiers fired into crowds of
unarmed demonstrators last month,
killing 112 people by government
count and several hundred according
to other reports.
In its 8 p.m. broadcast, Rangoon
Radio said the government was
invoking a 1987 order banning
demonstrations at the Parliament
building and several other sites.
Party leaders plan a special meeting
Monday to consider holding a ref
erendum on one-party rule, as prom
ised by President Maung Maung, but
opponents demand an interim
government leading to democracy.
Because the situation is "sliding
toward chaos," up to 100 dependents
of U.S. Embassy employees will be
evacuated as soon as possible, said
a Western diplomat, who spoke on
condition of anonymity.
Demonstrators have not threat
ened foreigners, and the U.S.
Embassy has been a favorite rallying
point, with protesters applauding the
American flag.
Turmoil began in Burma with
student riots in September 1987 that
led to street protests in March and
June.
Ne Win resigned July 23 and was
succeeded by a hard-line former
general, Sein Lwin, who lasted only
17 days. Maung Maung is the first
civilian leader since 1962.
Fire forces evacuation of geyser complex
From Associated Press reports
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL
PARK, Wyo. For the first time
in the 1 16-yeaf history of the oldest
U.S. national park, officials ordered
the evacuation Wednesday of the Old
Faithful Geyser complex ahead of a
165,000-acre fire.
About 800 visitors calmly left the
Old Faithful Inn, which park officials
decided to close for the season more
than a month early. Later, however,
park officials decided to allow day
visitors in the area.
High wind caused the North Fork
fire to expand by 20,000 acres on its
northern flank, but the blaze threat
ened no buildings in the geyser
complex.
Fires in the Greater Yellowstone
area, which includes nearby national
parks in Montana, have charred close
to 1 million acres, park spokeswoman
Marsha Karle said.
On Yellowstone's northern border,
a river of fire flowed within feet of
two small tourist towns, and firefight
ers hoped winds would continue to
shepherd the Storm Creek fire past
Cooke City and Silver Gate, Mont.
A North Fork, Idaho, fire extended
a finger of flame toward Old Faithful,
but firefighters expected to be able
to steer the flames around the
southern perimeter of the complex,
said incident commander Denny
Bungarz.
"It's still sitting up on the ridge,
about half a mile away from us,"
Bungarz said. "We expect the fire, if
it Idoes run into our lines, will hit us
very lightly. It will not be a big wall
of flame."
The Boise Interagency Fire Center,
the coordinating office for firefighting
in the West, said fires this year have
charred 3.65 million acres, an area
larger than Connecticut. Slightly
more than 2 million of the acres are
in Alaska. The fire center has called
this the worst fire season in 30 years.
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Soviet space capsule lands
after trouble-filled flight
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW A Soviet space
capsule floated safely to Earth on
Wednesday after 26 hours
stranded in orbit with dwindling
air and food, but a flight control
official said .the commander
delayed the landing by making
mistakes.
Deputy flight chief Viktor
Blagdv said commander Vladimir
Lyakhov should have switched to
manual controls to fire braking
rockets aboard his Soyuz TM-5
capsule, according to the govern
ment daily Izvestia.
The tiny capsule parachuted to
a landing at 4:50 a.m. Moscow
time 100 miles southwest of the
town of Dzhezkazgan in the
republic of Kazakhstan.
Izvestia, which reported the
space-to-ground radio exchange,
noted that despite the earlier
problems with the guidance sys
tem, the spacecraft landed within
only a few dozen miles of the
intended target, and only 24 hours
late. ...
Abdul JAhad Mohmand, the
first Afghan in space,, and Soviet
crewmate Lyakhov spent 26 hours
aboard the cramped capsule that
had enough air for only two days,
dwindling food supplies and no
toilet.
Candidates debate road funding
RALEIGH While declining
to rule out higher taxes, Gov. Jim
Martin and Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan
avoided committing themselves
Wednesday to specific measures
for raising billions of dollars for
road construction that both said
were desperately needed.
Martin, the Republican candi
date for governor, and his Demo
cratic challenger Jordan faced off
at a candidates' forum before the
North Carolina Highway Users
Conference." The conference
represents trade associations,
companies and indiyiduals rang
ing from equipment distributors to
retail merchants to truckers.
The candidates lined up along
partisan lines over the $450 million
bond issue Martin unsuccessfully
pushed during this year's General
Assembly session. Martin criti
cized the Democrat-dominated
Legislature for rejecting it and said
News in Brief
that if re-elected he would recom
mend it again next year.
Repeating a phrase he has used
to characterize the Legislature's
attitude toward his election-year
initiatives, Martin said the Demo
cratic leadership's response to his
bond plan had been "not now."
"That proposal is still valid and
is still on the table and it's a good
way to finance the capital needs,
despite what timid critics would
say to the contrary," he said.
Banks rake in record profits
WASHINGTON The
nation's commercial banks
enjoyed their most profitable six
months on record through June
this year, despite continuing losses
in Texas, the government said
Wednesday. V
Commercial banks earned $10.5
billion in the first and second
quarters this year, topping the $9.7
billion in net income for the second
and third quarters of 1985, which
had been the most profitable six
months since the FDIC began
keeping track in 1934.
. In the first half of last year,
banks lost $5.4 billion. The big loss
was almost entirely attributable to
huge reserves set . aside by the
largest banks for expected losses
on loans to Third World countries.
Banks haven't seen the need to
build those reserves further this
year and are thus earning strong
profits. Banks set aside $916
million on foreign loans in the first
six months of this year, compared
with. $16.4 billion in the same
period a year ago.
Stock market up slightly
NEW YORK The Dow
Jones average of 30 industrials, up
more than 10 points in the early
going, settled for a 0.53 gain at
2,065.79.
Advancing issues outnumbered
declines by about 5 to 4 on the
New York Stock Exchange, with
816 up, 639 down and 488
unchanged.
Big Board volume came to
139.59 million shares, against
122.25 million Tuesday.
For the Record
In Tuesday's article, "Sophomore permits. They will be sold on Tues-
parking permits could be eliminated," day, Sept.' 13. The DTH regrets the
the DTH incorrectly reported the error,
date of the sale of extra parking
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