2Jhe Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, November 29, 1988 World and .'.Nation'; j Mz water From Associated Press reports .WASHINGTON President elect George Bush announced Mon day that Marlin Fitzwater, President Reagan's spokesman for the past two years, would keep his job in an exaniple of "continuity in the best serise." Bush also sought to make peace with a former rival, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, inviting the Kansas Republican to a private lunch and declaring "the focus is properly on looking to the future." ;X)ole, who lost the GOP presiden tial nomination to Bush, agreed to st any past animosities aside. "The election is over and we both have obligations and certainly mine is to help him become a great president Freshman Ftom Associated Press reports -WASHINGTON The 10 men w&o will become new senators in Jkriuary gathered in the Capitol Monday for a hectic orientation tour tjjat, for Democrats, included lobby ing by the three veterans who want tfeir votes for majority leader. "It's a special day youH never forget," said Sen.-elect Herbert Kohl, DjWis. "But it's also like going to college as a freshman." ?The newly elected senators, five Republicans and five Democrats, were quickly embroiled in Senate politics as they eyed coveted commit t& assignments, prime office loca tions and other perquisites of life in theSenate. "For Trent Lott it wasn't necessarily a, step up in life. The veteran con gressman gave up his position as House Republican whip to run for, apd win, the Senate seat vacated by t&e retiring John Stennis. "You look at the House and the Senate and there certainly are a lot of differences," Lott said. "Like why it, takes three months in the Senate to move in 1 0 guys, when in the House they move in 43 people in 30 days." The five freshmen Democrats hadn't even had time to sit down for limch before being lobbied by the three men who want their votes l fotusHm J CHINESE RESTAURANT ' I - Chinese Gourmet Dinner Buffett iDltlheri slow Open on Mon. 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He showed up unexpectedly at Fitzwater's usual 11:30 a.m. briefing in the White House to announce his senators am v'e at Capito Tuesday when the majority party elects its leaders. Kohl announced he would support Sen. George Mitchell of Maine for the job because "he's a person I'm comfortable with." Joe Lieberman of Connecticut said he hadn't made up his mind and called it "the first major decision IH have to make as a senator." "I honestly don't know them very well," Lieberman said. "They're all saying roughly the same thing. It comes down to a decision in your gut." Banks raise prime lending rates; consumer loans to be affected From Associated Press reports NEW YORK Major U.S. banks boosted their prime lending rate a half percentage point Monday to 10.5 percent, the steepest level since mid 1985 and the fourth rise this year. The increase will mean a jump in rates on a variety of consumer loans pegged to the prime, including home equity loans. It also will raise bor rowing costs for companies that rely on banks for financing. r $2.00 i For 2 i I with coupon onlyl expires 121588 i 1 & i - -I! - ' - ifchi f I ? , "TTT I j I ;' , ' y'tOlSW- -.' ," " yy :: . yy,y . W . oo a spokesman decision to retain the 46-year-old career government spokesman, who had been his press secretary in 1985 87. "I think he's the best," Bush said. "He represents the old and the new. He represents the Reagan adminis tration and he also represents the Bush administration. ... This is continuity in the best sense." Fitzwater, with his own brand of self-deprecating humor, called the offer "a wonderful opportunity" but added, "I think I represent the old and the older." "The transition should be a smooth one," Fitzwater joked. "I have a lot of ideas for my successor, but I haven't had a chance to think about them yet." Mitchell, 55, also picked up the endorsements of Sens. Edward Kennedy and John Kerry of Massa chusetts and Bob Graham of Florida over the weekend. But Sens. Daniel Inouye, 64, of Hawaii and Bennett Johnston, 56, of Louisiana also have support and no one is predicting the outcome. "I haven't the vaguest notion who's going to win," said Sen. Alan Dixon, D-Ill. "There must be 75 of us if you add up the promised votes," he said, suggesting that some of the 55 Democrats were playing multiple Economists had been predicting a prime rate increase because interest rates in the bond markets rose recently due to inflation fears and the dollar's weakness in foreign exchange markets. NCNB National Bank of Char lotte, Wachovia Bank and Trust of Winston-Salem and First Union Corp. of Charlotte boosted their interest rates Monday from 10 per cent to 10.5 percent, effective immediately. The financial markets had no major reaction to the announcement. Stock and bond prices were up modestly, while the dollar steadied against other major currencies. - "It comes as no surprise. In fact," they (banks) seem to have held back longer than I expected," said Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan also has warned of Carolina Y M.J Pride i r 15 1 EAST FRANKLIN 9 4 2 - 0 1 2 7 Football Game Weekend Hours: OPEN TONIGHT UNTIL 9:00 -SATURDAY 9 AM-10 PM -SUNDAY 9 AM-6 PM Selected Cotton Sweats As Low As $24.99 u r M-Sat 9:30-8 Sun 10-5 n Fitzwater said the new president would make the scheduling of news conferences "as regular as possible." "It's a new administration, a new president. I'm sure well have new ways of dealing with the press. I'm sure thereH be all kinds of interviews and press conferences and meetings," he added. Fitzwater has had the title "assist ant to the president for press rela tions" since Febuary 1987, when he succeeded Larry Speakes. Although Bush said Fitzwater would be retained as "press secre tary," that title is actually still held by James Brady, who. was wounded in the March 1981 assassination attempt on the president. choice in the verbal straw balloting. "My experience, my seniority should be in my favor," Inouye said in an interview Sunday. "Clearly, my centrist approach is an advantage," Johnston said. "It would be a good message for the country; it would be a good message for the Democratic party." Most of the freshmen were more interested in lobbying for office space and committee assignments, and in finding their way through the laby rinth of hallways, corridors and subways that honeycomb the Capitol. higher short-term rates unless the government trims its huge budget deficit, the source of the dollar's woes. "There's a building perception in the marketplace that the Fed is, in fact, tightening conditions . . . said William Sullivan, an economist for the investment firm Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. Sullivan and other economists predicted the Fed might soon raise its discount rate, or the interest it charges on loans to member banks. If that happened, the prime rate could be increased again, they said. Chase Manhattan was the first institution to increase its prime rate , Monday, and other major banks, quickly joined the move. ! . ' " The prime stood at 8.5 percent at the start of the year and has been raised four times since. Monday's increase put the key lending rate at its highest level since May 20, 1985, when it was lowered a half percentage point to 10 percent. The prime rate reflects a bank's costs of borrowing money, including interest it pays on savings accounts and certificates of deposit, and trails subtler increases in other interest rates. 14K XT o Hi (Sol C H unm ILPec, Remember: Santa Clans is comingto town so you had better not miss this sale at the Gold Connection! TTTTlj UI-VIULLf iUWlKUWll-ClICUJClIllU Grand jury may soon indict former PTL leader Bakker From Associated Press reports CHARLOTTE A federal grand jury investigating PTL founder Jim Bakker and several of his former aides returned to Charlotte Monday amid specula tion that indictments could be returned before the end of the week. "It's anybody's guess," said Bakker's attorney, Jim Toms of Hendersonville. "All we can do right now is sit around and wait. "I would think they're not quite to that (indictments) but they're not far from it," he said. "They're still taking testimony. I guess we could all be surprised. We're certainly getting closer." Toms said earlier that he believes Bakker will be indicted. "It's a question of when," he said, "and what the particular allegations will be." The 23-member grand jury re convened Monday morning, hear ing testimony from a number of so-called "lifetime partners," peo ple who contributed money to the PTL ministry in exchange for free hotel lodgings at Heritage USA." Bakker, who resigned as PTL president in March 1987 after the revelation that he had a tryst with church secretary Jessica Hahn and paid her hush money, has denied any criminal wrongdoing, and has called the investigation "a fishing expedition." Three months ago he predicted, "I dont think 111 be indicted. I never have. If I am, I'll be shocked." Soviets change constitution MOSCOW The Communist Party Central Committee on Monday endorsed constitutional changes that critics say give the Kremlin too much power, setting the stage for approval over the objection of several restive republics. Officials in Estonia, the tiny Baltic republic that led the chal lenge to Kremlin authority by declaring its sovereignty in inter nal policy and its right to review all new Soviet legislation, said they would stand firm despite a ruling the move was unconstitutional. The more than 300 members of the party's policy-making body, meeting on the eve of an extraor dinary meeting of the Supreme Soviet, or national parliament, declared the amendments "will mean a major step along the road of democratization of Soviet society," the official Tass news agency said. It instructed President Mikhail Gorbachev, also chief of the Communist Party, to make a report on the amendments to the Supreme Soviet. The Central Committee prom ised election campaigns "unlike all the previous ones as real compe- ORMECTOM I ,P 7 P nnuaL mm r m Santa Clams Sale! firs T7 TTV o)(o Holds Any Item UntilDecember24th News in Brief titiveness of candidates is intro duced in the political life of the country," Tass said. Gorbachev proposed the amendments to make the system more democratic, but the Estoni ans, as well as activists in Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia and Georgia have criticized them "for taking away some of the local control that Gorbachev has said he wants to foster. They say the amendments take away the right of the 15 Soviet republics to secede, giving a new 2,250-member Congress of Peo ple's Deputies the right to deter mine the boundaries of the Soviet Union. Those republics have demanded . major changes in the amendments, or that they be rejected outright. Some legislators from the small republics have said they will object in the Supreme Soviet, but they most likely will be far outnum bered by deputies from much bigger republics such as Russia . and the Ukraine. Walesa to debate rival on TV WARSAW, Poland Both . sides have agreed to terms for a nationally televised debate Wed nesday night between Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and the head of the official trade union alliance, a Solidarity spokesman said. The debate between Walesa and . Alfred Miodowicz is to take place immediately after the main even-. ing news show. ' ; If it comes off as planned, the debate would be the first time Walesa has ever been allowed to appear live on state-controlled . Polish television to present his reasons for wanting the banned , union made legal again. Dali arrives at clinic BARCELONA, Spain Span-, ish surrealist painter Salvador Dali was transterred to a Barcel ona clinic Monday for suspected. pneumonia and heart failure, a'," hospital official said. Elena Garcia, a secretary at the .?, Quiron Clinic' in Barcelona, con- k firmed that the 84-year-old Dali ,-1 arrived at the clinic from a hospital in his hometown of Figueras, 60 M . 1 C T 1 mues norm oi Barcelona. Dow Jones moves upward NEW YORK The Dow ' Jones average of 30 industrials rose 6.76 to 2,08 1 .44 Monday. Advancing and declining issues ran about even on the New York . Stock Exchange with 704 issues rising, 720 falling and 517 unchanged. I4K a 0 4th!! i rv nr n n o 8. 8 1 OL. fr 1CU IL Willi w4 HTTTT v V 1

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