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Show A6 World wednesday, October 24, 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah Canada has slipped into recession, official reports - Canadians TORONTO (AP) abhor being seen as following in American footsteps, and this time they got out in front by officially tumbling into recession on their own. The United States, however, may not be far behind. Finance Minister Michal Wilson, after weeks of dodging the dread "R" word, finally acknowledged to a House of Commons committee Monday night that Canada had slipped into a recession, though he expected it to be short. The country's largest bank, the Royal Bank of Canada, also predicted negative growth for the third and fourth quarters of this year, saying a slow recovery would begin next year. Wilson said the current recession would be nothing like the 1981-8- 2 version, which involved a precipitous drop into a "black hole." "The partial information that is now available for the third quarter, together with some major work stoppages, the crisis in the Middle East and the weakening U.S. economy, suggest a further decline in we severe recession." Dr. Edward Neufeld, chief economist at the Royal Bank, said the current situation differed from the 1981-6recession in that the economy since 1988 has slipped slowly into economic malaise and will work its way out slowly. Neufeld said the Canadian economy has never gone into recession when the American economy did not "no matter how far back you want to look." 2 my shrank Some economists says the U.S. economy already is in recession, others say it will hit recession in the fourth quarter of this year, and 0.4 ond percent in the sec- quarter of 1990 and Wilson predicted there would be negligible growth for four quarters. "Consumers will be looking over the next year or so at no increase in their standard of living," Neufeld told a group of reporters at an economic briefing. He said it would be a period when consumers pay "tremendous attention to managing their financial affairs," and a time to focus on "keeping your job if you have a still others predict the United States will escape recession by a narrow margin. The opposition in the Canadian Parliament has blamed the conservative government's policy of an effort to high interest rates for the recession. cure inflation Recession usually is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The Canadian econo good one." Canadians seem to have the word already. Retail sales in August were down 0.2 percent from July as consumers spent less on items such as vehicles, furniture and appliances, according to Statistics Canada, the government's number crunchers. big-tick- et The Royal Bank's forecast said unemployment probably would rise from the current 8.4 percent to about 9 percent at the peak of the downturn. Israelis seal borders of occupied lands - VtiV SI !.;. i Wilson said. "However, do not expect this to be a output," JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli troops sealed the borders of the occupied territories today in an effort to curb a wave of bloody revenge attacks by Arabs and Jews. An order from Defense Minister Moshe Arens banned the nearly 1.7 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering Israel. Late Tuesday, police accompand ied cars carrying some of the estimated 100,000 Palestinian workers in Israel. Gaza-boun- "The consideration that brought it about was to try to defuse the tension and pacify the wave of violence," said Defense Ministry spokesman Dan Naveh. He said the order would "last for several days only" and should not seriously affect the troubled Israeli economy. Police Minister Roni Milo instructed officers "not to hesitate to open fire in response to attempts to cause harm or endanger the lives of civilians or security personnel," Israel Television said. A series of intercommunal attacks have followed the Oct. 8 police shooting of 19 Palestinians on Jerusalem's sacred Temple Mount during a riot by Arabs who were throwing stones down on Jews praying at the Western Wall, Only hours before Arens' order on Tuesday, Israeli civilians fired on an d car in the southern Negev desert, killing Maher Arab-owne- a Gaza laborer, and wounding his three cousins. The army said the incident was being investigated by police. The attack was claimed by a previously unknown underground group, "Eye for an Eye," in phone calls to Israel Television and radio. Meanwhile, clandestine leaflets urged Arabs to step up attacks on Jews and praised as a "hero" a Palestininan who on Sunday fatally stabbed a woman soldier, a gardener and an policeman in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood. "This is only the beginning," warned the leaflet. off-du- ty Bombs explode at two Irish checkpoints, killing 6 BELFAST, Northern Ireland Simultaneous bomb at(AP) tacks at two security checkpoints in Northern Ireland today killed six soldiers and left a civilian missing and presumed dead, police said. The IRA claimed responsibility. Five men were arrested in the Irish Republic in connection with the predawn attacks, which also injured at least 27 people, six seriously, police said. Police said in both cases, the bombs were driven to the checkpoints by civilians acting under Irish Republican Army threat. One of the drivers, an elderly man, )v N5sci j J pressure may help Salvadoran peace talks AP Laserphoto Voter turnout light in Pakistan's elections ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -P- in unexpect- edly small numbers today for a bitterly contested national election widely considered a referendum on the dismissal of Benazir Bhutto as prime minister. At least two people were killed and four injured in disputes involving rival parties, officials said, and there were scattered reports of voter harrassment and intimidation. The month-lon- g campaign claimed at least a dozen lives. Tens armed of thousands of heavily soldiers, paramilitary troops and police patrolled throughout the country during the voting. Today's general elections were only the fifth in Pakistan since its 1947 inception, and never before was the military deployed in such large numbers during polling. About 50 million people were eligible to vote, but election officials said turnout was light, perhaps reflecting cynicism about the future of democracy in Pakistan. Bhutto claims her Aug. 6 dismissal amounted to a ' constitutional coup" by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, and that abuse of power charges filed against her are baseless slander. Voters in Bhutto's hometown of Karachi lined up outside polling booths three hours before they opened. The longest lines were in the sprawling slum district of Lyari, where Bhutto's jailed husband. Asif Ali Zardari, 38, is a candidate. But at polling stations elsewhere, officials reported only a 15 percent turnout during the nine hours of No overall figures on the turnout were immediately availavoting. ble. The government, which is controlled by Bhutto's foes, filed a seventh abuse of power charge against her just hours before the polls opened today. But the campaign to destroy the Bhutto politically may have backfired. It halted the steady decline in her popularity and helped galvanize the disgruntled within her party. Analysts had predicted today's vote would be close. rank-and-fi- Just le hours before the polls a candidate of Bhutto's opposition was gunned down along with five companions, news reports said. Earlier this week, several of Bhutto's party workers were killed. Police refused to link the latest killing to the elections, but the prime minister in the army backed opened right-win- g caretaker government, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, suggested that Bhut- to's party loyalists were involved. The victim was contesting a rural seat in Punjab province, where 60 percent of the country's 102 million people live and where the outcome is expected to be decided. He and his companions were killed by gunmen who fired on their vehicle during an llth-hou- r tour of his constituency. In addition to charging Bhutto and seven former Cabinet ministers with abuse of power, the caretaker government had her husband arrested on Oct. 10 for the alleged kidnapping and extortion of a Pakistani-born British citizen. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador A U.S. Senate promise to (AP) link military aid to conduct by both the Salvadoran government and the rebels could speed up peace talks that resume early next month, some Salvadoran leaders say. The Senate last week halved the $85 million aid package and promised to cut aid altogether if the rightist government of President Alfredo Cristiani were to withdraw from peace talks. If the rebels fail to demonstrate good faith in negotiations or launch a major offensive the slashed $42.5 million would be restored. Amnesty International today reported a significant upsurge in the d number of killings by death squads. The London-base- d human rights group said 45 people were killed by death squads in the first seven months of 1990 more than during all of last year. On Tuesday, the rebels launched their second attack on a military headquarters in week. But their two homemade mortar-typ- e bombs fell about 500 feet short of their intended target, the downtown Defense Ministry, killing two children and wounding two women. Six days earler, similar homemade mortars were used in an attack on the main air force base on the capital's eastern edge. The civil war has claimed the lives of about 72,000 army-supporte- SIIEMSON oftheouester LfcflMN corporation. BROTHERS Minqs Over Money. the car carrying the bomb, police said. At the Newry checkpoint, police man drove up in said, a a van, jumped out and shouted: "There's a bomb in the van!" It exploded before police, soldiers and the driver had time to get clear. The driver suffered a broken leg. Police said both bombs exploded just after 4 a.m. The IRA claim of responsibility came in a statement to the British domestic statement to the British domestic news agency Press Association in Belfast. of Come Visit Our is? Amnesty says death squad killing on rise PARK PLACE CENTRE aid. Because those fighting the system, those in the FMLN, are still waging their battle," Santamaria said Monday. But Santamaria, head of the government delegation to peace talks with the rebels, also emphasized that the U.S. move provides an incentive to the FMLN to contribute more to the success of the peace process. Rebel and government negotiators are scheduled to resume peace talks Nov. 4 in Mexico. Peace talks have bogged down on the issue of the future role of the armed forces. The rebels demand a drastic purge and reduction of security forces that would culminate in the "demilitarization" of Salvadoran society. The government says it is in favor of weeding out negative elements from the army. 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