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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1986
Page
12
The second quarter showing a 0.6 percent GNP rise marks the slowest pace since late 1982. Personal consumption grew 6.2 percent annualized, while housing rose 14.5 percent, and inventories added 3.5 billion before being offset by a 3.4 billion trade deficit. Exports fell 9.8 percent and imports surged 15.8 percent, with after tax corporate profits up 2.1 percent in Q2 after a prior 3 percent drop.
U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz will meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Washington Friday to discuss arms control and other issues as talks continue. Kampelman reports new ideas on intermediate range and strategic nuclear weapons amid stalled progress in Geneva. Reagan says a July letter offered fresh reductions and a stable transition to defenses, while Obukhov notes no progress after five Geneva rounds and cites SDI as a major obstacle.
Beir ut police report Israeli warplanes struck the Mieh Mieh refugee camp on the outskirts of Sidon in southern Lebanon. No immediate casualty or damage details were provided after a pre dawn guerrilla incursion into Israel’s security zone. Air strikes began around 3 p.m. local time.
Rep. Edward Markey cites a subcommittee report faulting the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for lax safety at Nuclear Fuels Services Inc. Erwin Tennessee plant. The study says radioactive leakage is possible and warns the plant lacks adequate community alert systems while under Navy contract to supply high grade uranium fuel for submarines.
Nabih Berri the Lebanese Shiite leader who helped free 39 hostages from the 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijack has no interest in aiding efforts to free Americans held in Beirut. Former Sen James Abourezk says Berri feels burned by Reagan administration officials and declined to assist, noting a Damascus meeting last month.
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