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By The Associated Press
News
D
eport predicts no slowdown
in Soviet weapons production
WASHINGTON - Soviet leader Mikhail Gor
bachev's ambitious strategy for modernizing his
nation's troubled economy isn't likely to slow
plans for building new military weapons, accord
ing to an assessment by two major U.S. intelli
gence agencies that was released Sunday.
Soviet military leaders generally support Gor
bachev's economic plans, although that backing
could wane within two to three years, according
to the CIA and the Pentagon's Defense Intelli
gence Agency.
The CIA DIA report was made March 19 in a
classified meeting with the congressional Joint
Economic Committee. A declassified version was
made public Sunday by Sen. William Proxmire,
D-Wis., a member of the panel.
The study noted that since Gorbachev came to
power in March 1985, he has announced plans to
overhaul and modernize the Soviet economy.
"Gorbachev's plans call for boosting eco
nomic growth through massive replacement of
outdated plant and equipment and an emphasis
on high tec hnology industries," the study said.
Achieving his goal would "require record
growth in the machinery allocated for moderniz
ing Soviet plant and equipment," it said, noting
that the machinery is produced by the same
sector of the economy that builds military
hardware.
"Gorbachev's economic policies appear to
command widespread political support" even
among the military because military leaders
agree that industrial modernization is necessary
and because defense programs likely won't be
hurt in the short run, the report said.
The study also noted that the rate of Soviet
military spending has generally shown little
increase since 1975.
But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has
responded by noting that while the rate of
increase may have slowed, the Soviet military
starts from a much larger base, meaning that
even small increases in spending produce large
numbers of new weapons.
census u rider way
Time to stand up and be counted
to gTO TrJensus Bureau is .about
sending its forms to about 48,000 households
across the nation.
Although the official census remains more
than four years in the future, the agency is
already struggling with the logistics of counting
nearly a quarter-billion Americans, and learning
as much as possible about them.
The current test centers on the questionnaire:
what to ask and how to get the most accurate
and complete response.
Trying to decide what questions to include in
the 1990 count, the bureau has held 65 hearings
across the nation. At least one meeting was held
in each state.
In addition to the census of population and
housing, proposals in this or past years have
ranged from counting the nation's dogs and cats
nabTfsV"" neDle's religious beliefs and sex
The most controversial or intrusive items are
easily rejected by census officials. They won't
ask sexual preference or religion, for example.
"The census is more than just a count of the
population. It is a chance for us to take stock of
ourselves as a people and successfully meet
future local and national challenges," Census
Director John G. Keane says in a message to
households receiving the test questionnaires.
The basic census information is collected
because it is required in the Constitution, which
directs that the people be counted every 10 years
for the purposes of reapportioning the House of
Representatives.
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Spring breakers go on rampage
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. Thousands of ram
paging youths on spring break hurled rocks at
police, ripped clothing from women, publicly
exposed themselves and dumped water into
open-top cars on Friday as they shut down this
desert resort's main street, police and witnesses
said.
"You try to arrest one, and you have 500 all
over you for it," Police Sgt. David Goodwin said
of the mob along Palm Canyon Drive. Thirty
people were arrested, mostly for drunkenness,
assaulting an officer and failure to disperse, he
said.
Members of the crowd sprayed Mace and
threw rocks, bottles "and just about anything
else the crowd can get their hands on" at offic
ers, he said.
Palm Springs, 1 10 miles east of Los Angeles,
has long been a popular spot for students to
gather during Easter break.
A crowd of young men surrounded two women
in an open Ferrari convertible Friday afternoon,
said Associated Press photographer Douglas
Pizac.
"They started tearing their (the women's)
clothes off," said Pizac, who intervened. He said
the women, who were wearing T-shirts over two
piece bathing suits, were crying and pleading
with the men to stop.
"One had her top torn off and the other had
part of her bottoms torn off," said Pizac. "I asked
them if they were all right after they started
driving away, and one of them said 'I'll never be
the same again.' She was driving with one hand,
keeping her clothes over her chest with the
other."
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Actor James Cagney a tvo
NEW YORK James Cagney, who won an Oscar as the song and dance man of "Yankee
Doodle Dandy" but earned his place in movie history as the pugnacious hoodlum of such clas
sics as "The Public Enemy" and "Angels with Dirty Faces," died Sunday.
Cagney, 86, who suffered from diabetes, had been in declining health in recent days. He
was released from Lenox Hill Hospital last week, where he had been treated for a circulatory
ailment, and died at his Dutchess County farm north of New York City.
Marge Zimmerman, his manager and confidante, said then that he was returning to his
farm in Stanfordville "to be among the surroundings he loves."
On Sunday, she would only say that he had died. She refused to give other details.
Cagney had suffered a minor stroke in 1977 after being hospitalized for anemia.
It was, in part, because of his health "The doctor says 'keep the man busy,"' Cagney
recalled that he emerged from 20 years' retirement to star in "Ragtime" in 1981.
Cagney's career spanned six decades. He outlived the other great Hollywood heavies:
Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and George Raft, all of them his co-stars.
Asked in 1984 how he wanted to be remembered, Cagney shot back, "I don't want to be
remembered at all." Then he paused, gave a big stage wink, and smiled.
He drew ovations for a wide range of roles including mobsters in "The Roaring Twen
ties" and "White Heat"; the neurotic ship captain in "Mister Roberts"; Lon Chaney in "Man of
a Thousand Faces"; and George M. Cohan in "Yankee Doddle Dandy," the role for which he
won his only Academy Award.
The Cagney stance balanced on the balls of the feet, shoulders forward, fingers snapping
or fist smashing into opposite palm and staccato delivery became a favorite of impersona
tors. But one of their most common lines was a fraud, according to Cagney: "1 never once said
in a film, 'You dirty rat!'"
When he retired in 1961 alter appearing in 62 films, Cagney was still the wiry, 5-foot-8 ban
tarn; when he returned to the screen in "Ragtime," the jutting jaw was encased in jowls, the
legs moved slowly but the electricity still was there.
Stardom came with Cagney's fifth film. "The Public Enemy" in 1931, in which he dodged
live ammunition no special effects in those days and shoved half a grapefruit into the
face of Mae Clark. For much of the next two decades he was one of Hollywood's top box office
attractions, and when he went into restaurants', diners often sent grapefruit to his table.
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