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College costs increase slightly i
NEW YORK - A year at college
will cost an average of 5 percent to 8
percent more this fall, a slight lessen
ing in the decade-long spell of higher
education inflation, according to an
annual survey released Wednesday.
But some officials fear the encour
aging trend may end soon, especially
at colleges in oil-sensitive northern
states, if the overall inflation rate
worsens and a recession occurs.
The survey by the College Board
found that Massachusetts Institute of
Technology is the nation’s priciest
college this fall: an estimated $22,945,
counting tuition, fees, room and board,
books and supplies, transportation,
and other expenses.
According to the survey, fixed
charges at four-year private institu
tions — including tuitions, fees and
room and board — average $13,544,
an 8-percent increase from last year’s
$12,557. A year ago, such charges
rose 9 percent
At four-year public universities,
Fixed costs average $4,970, up 7 per
cent from $4,715 the previous year.
Those rates rose an average 8 percent
over the 1988-89 school year.
Attwo-year private colleges, Fixed
costs average $8,484, an 8-percent
increase from $7,912 last year. Tui
tion and fees at two-year public insti
tutions average $884, up 5 percent
from last year’s $841. Few such insti
tutions provide room and board.
“That’s progress, though not dra
matic,’’ said Richard Rosser, presi
dent of the National Association of
Independent Colleges and Universi
ties in Washington, D.C.
The survey’s national averages are
weighted to take enrollment into
account. Colleges with large enroll
ments count more heavily than smaller
schools.
At their worst, costs at public and
private institutions rose in double digits
from 1981 through 1984. Rates at
four-year public colleges shot up 20
percent in 1983-84. They settled into
the 5- to 9-percent range the last six
years.
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Tax compromise possible
WASHINGTON - President Bush
may be willing to drop his insistence
for a cut in the capital gains tax,
Republican congressmen said Wednes
day, a demand that has been the major
obstacle to a budget deal.
But the apparent softening of Bush’s
position was revealed on a day when
Bush and congressional Democrats
had their most withering public flareup
over the talks in weeks.
The two sides accused each other
of endangering their stalled bargain
ing, just five days before disruptive
cuts in government services will be
imposed if the negotiations fail.
Bush said nothing about his re
ported change in his capital gains
stance as he campaigned for Republi
can candidates in Ohio.
“The hangup is with the Demo
crats,” he said, accusing them of
refusing to do their part to cut the
i deficit.
“If and when the ax falls, the
Democratic Congress knows that it
will be held accountable,” he said.
“And I will take that message to
every state in the union. It is their
fault.”
He also said Democrats ‘‘ have not
come forward with a package” at the
talks, a remark that touched off a
Democratic uproar.
Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell, D-Maine, and House Speaker
Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., said
Democrats have made several offers
in recent bargaining sessions.
“To begin a series of charges or
countercharges... at this stage is not
helpful,” Foley said. “It is damaging
to the talks, though we’re determined
it not be critically damaging.”
Mitchell said the president must
have been “badly misinformed” to
have made the comment, and called it
“highly misleading and damaging.”
Hundreds of unionized federal
workers rallied outside the Capitol at
noon to demand a quick solution to
the budget crisis. They carried signs
reading, “Your furlough begins Nov.
6, Election Day,” and “Congress,
you do your jobs so we can do ours.”
The rally was organized by the
American Federation of Government
Employees, which represents 700,000
federal workers.
Inside the building, the Senate voted
overwhelmingly to apply the spend
ing cuts to the salaries of members of
Congress and top executive branch
officials, including Vice President
Quayle and members of the Cabinet
~ items now exempt under the Gramm
Rudman budget-cutting law.
After a morning meeting at the
White House, GOP lawmakers said
Bush was signalling compromise.
Instead of lowered capital gains tax
rates, Bush might accept other items
he believes would spur the economy.
Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia,
the No. 2 House Republican, said the
alternatives could include corporate
tax breaks designed to encourage
research and to prod businesses to
operate in ailing urban and rural ar
eas.
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Soviet legislature
votes in favor of
religious freedom
MOSCOW - The Soviet legisla
ture formally ended decades of reli
gious repression cm Wednesday, pass
ing a law on freedom of conscience at
a time when Soviets are flocking to
churches in record numbers.
“Our people suffered to get this
law,” said Mikhail Kulakov, a leader
of the Soviet Union’s Seventh Day
Adventists, who have been persecuted
for evangelical activities.
The law forbids the government
from interfering with religious activi
I tics, improves the legal status of reli
I gious organizations and gives Soviet
citizens the right to study religion in
I homes and in private schools.
The Soviet constitution has long
guaranteed freedom of worship, but
? in the past the Communist Party’s
| ideological opposition to religion as
I the “opiate of the masses” made that
guarantee hollow.
I In practice, the government dis
I couraged religious services, closed
churches and synagogues, imprisoned
religious leaders and preached athe
| ism.
I “The most important thing for us
is not only that the law is passed, but
| that it begins to work,” said Adolph
■ Shayevich, Moscow’s chief rabbi.
Peter Reddaway, an expert on Soviet
I religion at George Washington Uni
J versity in Washington, said in a tele
phone interview “there is reason for
B optimism the law will be respected.”
Run-up of oil prices means
Bush will open oil reserve
CHICAGO ■ The White House, claiming there was “no justifica
tion” for the recent run-up in oil and gasoline prices, announced
Wednesday that President Bush had decided to sell 5 million barrels of
crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The decision to tap the nation’s oil reserve was announced by
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.
Fitzwater said the decision to put 5 million barrels on the market was
a “test” and the president would take “additional steps to stabilize
energy prices.”
The reserve contains 590 million barrels of crude oil.
Fitzwater said Bush was taking the action to head off “those who
might seek profit by subverting the sanctions” against Iraq.
“There is sufficient oil to meet current needs,’ ’ Fitzwater said. “Oil
markets have simply not taken into account additional production
coming on stream.”
Industry experts have estimated that production in other countries
has restored about two-thirds of the 4.8 million daily barrels of oil
production removed from world markets by Iraq’s takeover of Kuwait
on Aug. 2 and the world embargo against Iraqi-Kuwaiti oil.
Fitzwater quoted Bush as saying there was “no justification for the
intensive and unwarranted speculation in oil futures” that has driven
the price about $39 a barrel in the United States.
Fitzwater said this was the first time that the oil reserves, which have
been held in salt domes along the Texas and Louisiana coasts, have
been tapped for usage since they were established in 1975.
Jordan allows Iraqi planes
to land despite air embargo
Three Iraqi passenger planes touched down Wednesday in Jordan,
but Jordan later said it would halt all flights to and from Iraq to comply
with a U.N. air embargo. Iraq accused Washington of bribing Moscow
to back the U.N. sanctions.
In a sign that the sanctions are hurting Iraqis, Baghdad also an
nounced it would extend rationing to rice, Hour and cooking oil.
The United States reportedly planned ‘‘a show of force” by sending
its first American aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf in 16 years, and
Defense Secretary' Dick Cheney warned that an Iraqi military strike w as
increasingly likely.
U.S. officials encountered reservations Wednesday by allies on a
fund-raising campaign to collect the billions of dollars needed in the
gulf crisis.
The passengers aboard the regularly scheduled Iraqi Airways planes
landing in Amman included nine expelled French diplomats and 11
Britons stranded during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. It was not
known what their cargo holds contained. The planes all returned to
Baghdad.
Earlier, Jordanian officials said the passenger aircraft were not
included in embargo resolution passed Tuesday by the U.N. Security
Council.
However, Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Kasim said Jordan
would comply fully with the embargo and hall passenger flights to and
from Iraq, including freedom flights for Westerners stranded in Iraq and
Kuwait.
Jordan has continued to allow a minimum number of flights by the
Iraqi Airways, due to humanitarian considerations, facilitating the
movement of foreign nationals from Iraq and Kuwait,” he said in a
statement at U.N. headquarters in New York.
However, those flights will now be terminated in accordance with
(the air embargo),” said Kasim, who is also the deputy prime minister.
The U.N. resolution does not mention passenger planes but says all
planes traveling to and from Iraq should be checked to make sure they
are not carrying cargo prohibited by the U.N. trade sanctions. The
resolution prohibits the use of force to stop planes, but allows for the
detention of aircraft.
Baghdad s official news agency accused Moscow of being bribed by
the United States and gulf sheiks to oppose Iraq. It said the tone of a
tough U.N. speech Tuesday by Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevard
nadze ^clearly shows the bribe given by American and its allies the oil
Iraq, officials announced the new food rationing will begin this
weekend. Trade and Finance Minister Mohammed Mahdi Saleh said
sugar and tea also will be affected by the new restrictions. The
government already closed fast food restaurants and many pastry shops
because they use large amounts of sugar.
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