_ News Digest_ By The Associated Press
Gorbachev advises ’revolutionary restraint
MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gor
bachev accused his Kremlin critics
Monday of being either too timid or
too impatient about the pace of re
form, andadvised “revolutionary self
restraint” in thedrive to modernize the
Soviet Union.
The Soviet leader said Josef Stalin
committed “enormous and unforgiv
able” crimes and announced resump
tion of a campaign to rehabilitate the
dictator’s victims. He praised the
communist state’s second leader,
however, for collectivizing agricul
ture and industrializing the country.
Gorbachev’s nationally televised
speech, which lasted two hours 41
minutes, was part of the 70th anniver
sary observance of the 1917 revolu
tion that brought the communist to
power.
It was his first address since the
disclosure last week of a top-level
fight over the pace of “perestroika,”
Gorbachev’s program aimed at im
proving the quality of life by stream
lining bureaucracy, encouraging indi
vidual initiative and boosting produc
tion of consumer goods.
In a mention of his visit to Wash
ington next month for his third summit
with President Reagan, Gorbachev
pledged to seek a “palpable break
through” leading to reductions in
long-range nuclear weapons and a ban
on weapons in space.
Signing a treaty to ban intermedi
ate-range missiles “is very important
in itself,” he said in his first public
comment on the matter since the
announcement Friday that he would
meet Reagan on Dec. 7 and plan for a
return visit by the president.
‘We should learn to
spot, expose and
neutralize the ma
neuvers of the oppo
nents of perestroika,
those who act to
impede our advance
and trip us up 9
—Gorbachev
Agreement to scrap the weapons,
he said, “was largely settled back in
Reykjavik.” That summit collapsed
over the issue of Reagan’s project for
a space-based defense against nuclear
attack.
“The world expects the third and
fourth Soviet-U.S. summits to pro
duce more than merely an official
acknowledgment of the decision
agreed upon a year ago, and more than
merely continuation of the discus
sion,” the 56-year-old Communist
Party chief told an audience of Soviet
leaders and international socialist
figures.
“That is why we will work
unremittingly at these meetings for a
palpa1)!'' breakthrough, for concrete
results in reducing strategic offensive
armaments and barring weapons from
outer space — the key to removing the
nuclear threat.”
Criticism of Gorbachev’s reform
program has come from both sides of
the party.
Published reports, confirmed in
part by the party, said Moscow party
boss Boris N. Yeltsin was frustrated
by the slow pace and internal resis
tance to change, and tendered his res
ignation at an Oct. 21 meeting of the
Central Committee.
His speech is said to have drawn a
rebuke from Yegor K. Ligachev, who
is No. 2 in the 13-member Politburo
and a conservative force in the leader
ship.
Without identifying his targets,
Gorbachev said Monday: “We should
leam to spot, expose and neutralize
the maneuvers of the opponents of
perestroika, those who act to impede
our advance and trip us up, who gloai
over outdifficulties and setbacks, who
try to drag us back into the past.”
Businesses, workers raise productivity
WASHINGTON — Led by manu
facturers, American businesses and
workers increased their productivity
2.6 percent last quarter, the govern
ment said Monday, a sign that the
United States is continuing to improve
its competitive posture in the world
economy.
The increased efficiency by the
nation’s non-farm businesses in
churning out goods and services in
July, August and September was more
than double the improvement over the
past year, the Labor Department said.
Productivity among manufactur
ers jumped 4.5 percent as factories
raised their assembly line output by
8.2 percent — the biggest increase
since the first quarter of 1984 — while
working their employees only 3.5
percent more hours.
That combination, plus the ability
of manufacturers to keep wage gains
to only 1.4 percent the third quarter,
slashed the labor costs for each prod
uct coming off an assembly line an
average 3 percent, the labor Depart
ment said.
“It’s another encouraging sign for
the emerging return of a more com
petitive U.S. economy,” said Allen
Sinai, chief economist for Shearson
Lehman Brothers, a Wall Street bro
kerage house. “Stronger productivity
and lower unit labor costs are the key.
Hopefully, it will continue.”
In Brief
Texas court upholds ruling against Texaco
AUSTIN,Texas — The Texas Supreme Court on Monday upheld a
lower court decision ordering Texaco Inc. to pay $11.1 billion to
Pennzoil Co. for interferring in a planned merger of Pennzoil and Getty
Oil Co.
I The a ward, granted Pennzoil by jurors in 1985 and later upheld by
the state’s 1st Court of Appeals in Houston, is the largest in the nation’s
history.
Crews sight huge iceberg off southern Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A 450-foot-high iceberg has been
sighted near shipping lanes off southern Argentina, the government
news agency Teiam reported Monday.
Satellite photographs from the national weather service showed the
2,100-foot-wide iceberg about 310 miles northwest of the Falkland
Islands and 1,360 miles south of Buenos Aires. Weather forecasters said
the iceberg and two others spotted about 415 nautical miles east
northeast of the Falkland Islands are believed to have broken off from
Antarctica several months ago and drifted northward.
Sixty homes found to exceed radon guideline
More than half of the Lincoln homes tested since September exceed
the federal health limit for radon — a naturally occurring radioactive
gas.
Radon is an invisible, tasteless and odorless gas that scientists
estimate is responsi ble for 20,000 lung cancer deaths a year in the United
Stales.
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cable TV case
to be investigated
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan stood by his Supreme Court
nominee Monday as Senate Demo
J crats said they would investigate
Douglas H. Ginsburg’s having held
stock in a cable TV company while
supervising a government effort to
win First Amendment protection for
cable television operators.
Meanwhile, conservative groups
said they were not concerned about
reports that Ginsburg’s wife, Dr. Hal
lee Perkins Morgan, performed two
abortions and assisted in a third as a
medical resident in Boston in 1979
BO. One conservative spokesman said
she should be commended for making
a personal decision to stop participa
tion in such procedures.
Members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, which will conduct hear
ings on Ginsburg’s nomination, cau
tioned senators not to jump to conclu
sions about a possiblecon flict of inter
est in the cable television matter. But
they also made clear they believe the
issue should be investigated.
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Girl awake but still critical
after multi-organ transplant
PITTSBURGH — A 3-ycar-old
girl was awake and kicking with her
favorite doll beside her Monday as
doctors watched for any signs of rejec
tion after she became only the third
person in the nation to receive a five
organ transplant.
Tabatha Foster of Madisonvillc,
Ky., remained in critical condition,
which is normal after transplant sur
gery, at Children’s Hospital of Pitts
burgh, said hospital spokeswoman
Lynn McMahon.
Surgeons transplanted a liver,
pancreas, small intestine and parts of
the stomach and colon during an op
eration that ended Sunday after nearly
15 hours.
The organs came from 2-month
old Heather Orick, whodied after acar
accident. “Part of her is living,” said
her father, Earl Shirks, 42, of Penning
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Squid sales are strong
to the strong-stomached
INfcW Y(JKK — Squid McNug
gets may be a long way off, but the
ugly little mollusks are finding
their way onto the dinner plates of
more and more Americans, along
side escargot and sushi, in these
days of culinary adventures.
“Back in the late ’70s you
couldn’t give squid away,” says
Bill Carroll, a squid pusher. “Now,
a lot of restaurants have it on their
menus. But most arc calling it ca
lamari (the Italian word for squid)
because when you say ‘squid,’
people have a vision of Captain
Nemo being dragged down into the
deep by a monster shooting ink.”
Carroll can relate to people
trying to get their friends to cat
snails or raw fish for the first time.
As executive director of the Bi
State Seafood Development Con
ference, a New York-based trade
organization, one of his missions is
to whet the public’s appetite for
squid.
He gets a lot of wary stares.
Although squid is widely eaten
throughout the world, in the United
States it was regarded mainly as
fish bait. But because of the grow
ing popularity of ethnic and spe
cialty foods, squid is becoming
more accepted, and a thriving U.S.
industry has grown from scratch
over the past decade.
Unlike many other speciality
foods, squid is cheap and plentiful,
as well as nutritious.
Squid has long been harvested
in U.S. waters, but mostly by for
eign fishing fleets from Asia and
the Mediterranean. When the U.S.
extended its coastal boundaries to
200 miles in 1977, however, most
foreign fishing fleets were banned
from the rich U.S. waters, and
suddenly squid became an un
tapped resource.
“Mackerel, dogfish, monkfish,
butterfish and squid were all spe
cies we found were under-util
ized,” Carroll says. “We deter
m ined squ id had the greatest poten
tial because there was a ready for
eign market waiting. But we knew
the domestic market would be a
tough nut to crack because it’s not
a traditional American food.”
One of the most popular ways to
prepare squid is to cut the tube-like
body portion into rings. The rings
are then dipped in a batter or rolled
in bread crumbs and fried. Squid
also frequently is served cold in
salads.
China s new premier favors reform
BEIJING — Premier Zhao Ziyang
look over as chief of the Communist
Parly Monday in a major leadership
reshuffle that brought younger, re
form-minded pragmatists to power in
China.
The new line-up is the result of
Chinese leader Deng Xiaopings’ plan
to replace an aging party leadership
with new officials willing to continue
his market-oriented reforms and
open-door policy.
Deng, 8i, stepped down from three
l9P P^y P055^ Sunday at the conclu
sion of the 13th Communist Party
Congress, but he was reappointed
chairman of the powerful Central
Military Commission, ensuring that
he will play a major role in China’s
political future.
In retiring from his posts, Deng
forced leading conservatives, most
notably President Li Xianniah and
economist Chun Yun, to follow suit.
Li and Chen, both 82, had opposed the
pace of Deng’s reforms.
The way is now open for Deng and
his proteges to continue decentraliz
ing the economy and further open the
nation to the west.
“He is a great man,” the paper said
o* the French-educated revolutionary,
who has been purged three times in
Communist China s 38-year-history.
I he major surprise of the congress
was the political survival of Hu Yao
bang, the former party chief who lost
his post after student demonstrations
for democracy last December.
Hu, a liberal by Chinese standards,
will not return to the Politburo’s
Standing Committee, the core deci
sion-making group in the party. But he
retained his seat on the Central Com
mittee and on the Politburo itself. It
had been expected that Hu would be
pushed from the Politburo.
Zhao, 68, further solidified his
leadership position by being named
vice chairman of the military commis
sion. '
