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Show Ihf'dltl 2 InM dt fhuNdiv r.t Januarv 2 ; I'M 1985 GNP Falters; Inflation Shows Increase b., Pat.' Magr u ar unuri.y last rm d a 2 3 po.n.rg - jprbrM'.t in ;v SHIGTO W or i if's than d,-a- p '.derabl. what the White- H.ju'C had predicted and 'he wor-- t performance sim e the 'sion year of 1932 the - no Commerce Io partrnent reported W dn 'dav i in In j'i ri port on the bru's rodu t of goods and services t the di parini r.t al'o slashed its estimate for the list three months of the year from 3 3 pemnt growth to jo- -' r era a 2 4 p revi-io- an i n edbvlarg purchases of mi ports that left many I' is produt ts on the shelf Inflation also took jn eim.rioas jump in the fourth quarter up 4 5 percent as compared to a 2 7 percent tie previous quarter, accord. ag to a GNP rcla'ed price l.iuex co. p.ledh. tne Commerce Department The m ( reasc was the s 1r, tN f hlghe r ' d 'I ' i rt.c .. t:...n.strdUuii ted a r ' raLe cf nd -- t 1,1 lotfor J r in 1123 at. J 6 t ercert , once pre cn tor r Lai .4 the ye,.growth rate cent The economy grew - , 3 4 3l per percen. .. fr The 2 4 percent grouth rate 1985 s last quu ter followed ra't s f 3 1 percent in the third quarter. percent in the second quarter and 3 7 percent in the first quarter Civilian unemployment hovered in the 7 to 7 3 percent range for the four quarters of 1985 as the economy grew too slowly to do much more than absorb the number of new workers entering the work force. The civilian jobless rate in December was 6 9 percent 1 Uned 'nfe' not'ooi P,fQ Bubba reaches for food from Patsy Thorne who raised the wild boar from infancy. Park officers returned him to wilds. Isnt a Bubba Just Wild Boar, Pet Beer-Drinki- ng CURIL'S ClIHlsTI Texas il'FJH Bubba ij.nl muIi a wild boar j jiNtue ol llio peace lia ruled 0 his owners t.rn have their precious if they tan find peccary bark him Bubba had been raised from in fancy by Buddv and Patsy Thorne who consider him a "watch pig' sj ing he once scared off a burglar who tried to break in next door But Bubba was taken from the Thornes by Texas Park and Wild life agents who sneaked up to then house Jan. 3. shot Bubba with a tranquilizer and released him in parts unknown The Thornes were (barged with violating state law by keeping a wild animal, but Justice of the Peace Ben Garza Jr Tuesdav ruled Bubba was tou domesticated to qualify as a "wild-gam- e animal' and dismissed the charge. Garza s ruling drew cheers irom about 130 Bubba backers, and his large following in the Corpus Christi area volunteered to search by land and air for the missing Wednesday's new figures called into question the administration's latest optimistic assumptions about the 1986 economy, which it assumes will grow at a 4 percent rate during the first three quar ters. a high rate for a matuie recovery entering its fourth year This estimate tor healthy growth assumes particular importance this month because it is being used to predict tax revenues for the fiscal 1937 budget and the budget cuts that will be required under the Gramm-Ruman budget balancing law for the remainder of this year d Thorne expressed confidence that Bubba known to have a taste for ice cream, chocolate malt balls and beer, is still alive. "Were said going to find him." he of a $144 t ...on bod get Jtfiui in fsf a la37 w n r, beg.r-- . Get B..t if or' r .! s ,r N .b mar Cong.v.'i fath it could Ia-argress 'a .11 have to f.nd ar.otr.er $1j billion to $15 billion tn to' for every percentage po.nt that the economy ecor.orr.Nt-drops below 4 pera-r.say nother r l.ke the last lur ex t to ample ought cau-- e thegrow by $17 billion to $25 5 billion M ist economists in the-- Blue Chip economic survey of 50 top forecasting f.rn.s last year predicted a 3 per- Kuirrar. r js-o- Ni.vsj Kn.gr.i-Ridlt- r Spotlight ta-g- et 1 -- . . f , Vt-a- 1 cent growth rate tor 1986 The administration is going to be as it was d.sappomted in 1936 just ' disappointed m 1935 Allen Sinai chief economist uf Shearson Lehman Brothers pred ned Wednesday. " .'ijiiy economists a?' e that cj re ..an $ju .1 tire u r, fro tedcr. bud?t--t could backCre mp'o deficit has hau t c effect cf SUI..U-- itng the ecur.umv Con..:.erre he 'etary Malcolm insisted Wednesday that good to achieve 4 Bndrigc f ,ic r'Cts scetn ' . .r vv -- sear ui.d he not;.u nflati in ed that r. t u.. hid-im re is in tne fourth quarter ca-- : c 'r r. a .g jui.., m fo J cos.a and a Cr the m.htary. He p.. . ...crc-u'c- boii factors were temporary t presage a return to ruinous inflation Overall, the GNP inflation index rose only 3 6 percent fur 1985. the low est increase since 1967. Meanwhile, the Labor Department reported Wednesday that the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers registered a 33 percent increase for the year He also downplayed the dollar increase in imported goods, noting that they are partially the result of a devalued dollar a" do n' tddie Prim ess Mephanie . j '.'r L.ji ftW ell s list ot the r tro.de r s ster Caroline was named Princess Stephanie w ,.rst-dr-se- of or.-- - best-dre-'- un.M x '.n.:fed the fashion L'd r ir w 'v.'' ;r-- w desirr j- - G- 3 L't 1.1 order JttrtsiJudn r' Oinera un tht r rnjt. l C uilins rock smge-rMadonn i ai J T.ra T -- rn r and actresses Michele Lee W noopi Goldberg Cy bill Mu bed L:-- i Hartman Apolluma and J ar-i- ; Thomas F Blackwell also cho-- a. 'r - Lau-t- n H tun as abulous Woman ot the Year F ahu us tasiuon Indtpendtnts uf i - .,He named 0 w on.- n to 1935 f.r at lady Nancy Rtatjri Vut' t.rst lady Raisa Gorbachev Jjcly n Smith. Mery (r.ncC-sCaroline Prim s D, ana and actre-sc- s a fJri sicy Jane Wyman and Jane Tvlc-Marv Moure Streep e 1 1 -t t-- Pn-i.i.- r 'tvnour Eddie Murphy has sl-- J Tr- - over a report that the corned. an father The article which appeartd N Haunted by Dads Brutal Murdr Horr.ble Death ' Nj-- wa- - . ra'. Lnqu,rer tor $69 million hauntid bv the slaying of his n.s m Ho t Ldd.e Murphy 1 adlm Xtraid Hell Dm the bank 1 Court papers in New York a. i2c- i.it Lr.qu.rcr wove a totally false ut Chjrles Ldward Murphy and defamatory article' about t.e who was fatally stabbed by a g.rltricr.d in 1969 The suit calls the headline outrageous and written in a manner calculated to boost sales' and said the st portrayed Murphy as paranoid juvenile insecure and unstable - dc-at- Stee Allen. 64 will finish up radiation treatment this week after an operation on his colon that 'was nearly identical to the surgery President Reagan had." his publicist saicl Fourteen inches of Allen's intestine wtrt removed in the surgery last November ' He recovered fine from the surgery and the polyps were benign but the doctor recommended radiation therapy as insurance said Allens spokesman Sam Search of Statue Fails to Find Bombs .NEW YORK iLPIi Callers telephoned police in Maine and Arizona Wednesday warning that the Pales- tine Liberation Organization planted a bomb on the Statue of Liberty but a search of the landmark turned up no explosives. r A search was conducted National Park Service Rangers. by New York City police emergency services. bomb squads and construct! m workers who are renovating the radio-controlle- d One call was received by the Caribou. Maine police department at 2 32 a m MST "The dispatcher felt it was a lung distance call because he had trouble hearing but we don't know where it came from." Caribou Police Chief Vern McKennev said two-hou- President Reagan is scheduled to present his fiscal 1987 budget to Congress on Feb. 4 It is expected to call for a $36 billion cut in spending in order to comply with the Gramm- - - i uf M ot 1935 r wun.cn the year s steve Alien Murphc ' It was a male subject with a foreign accent saying that his organization. the PLO. had planted an explosive device in the Statue of Liberty that was set to go off between noon and 5 pm if prisoners werent released Manny Strumpf. a spokesman for the National Parks Service, said that at 6 45 a m Park Rangers stopped a boatload of construction workers bound for Liberty Island, site of the statue, and got volunteers to help search for the bomb . "At 9 39 am. the island was declared secure and safe." Strumpf said Police said they doubted a bomb could be planted on the island. Groups Gather to Lament 13th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade Pro-Lif- e l From lobby membeis of Congress after completing the two mile march to the Supreme Court builJing However. several dozen moved through police lines at the building and knelt to ' pray and to chant Stop The Killing and other slogans They were warned they would be arrested if they remained and after several minutes police did take 10 into custody chaigieg them with illeon Supreme gally demonstrating Coui t grounds Reag.in met privately at the White !Iousn with about leading abortion foes After that meeting Paul Brown, chief executive officer (if the Ameri- Continued two-doze- n can Lite League, and Joseph Sdieulier a leader (if told reporu-ithey d asked Hen gan to consider pardoning abortion clinic bombers who had harmed no people but only buildings Mr Reagan stated that he may Pro-Lif- eventually consider a se basis it on a Ac-t'o- e ease-by-- i Brown said, and V lieidler g.tv e a similar ,h'i ount White House spokesman Mbert Braslieat who s.nd he was at the meeting sjid laiei the pi evident had merelv v.i d lie may get a rev lew "on one ot the i ncs Kay James of ihc National Right to Life Commi'toe said Reagan ' in within the pto lite move ment to uni ouiage that kind of violence beiat.se as ho s.ivs i( gains in no friends oi suppoi t Seveial olhei pat tn quilts in the meeting sough! mil reporters to say tliev did not believe the president intended to loiidone the violence with his remarks or that ilu-- did not el his rem u ks m the same wav Brown and hi lieidler had dor" And the National Abortiun Rights Action League sent a telegram to Reagan on Tuesday asking him to use his "personal credibility" with antiabortion groups to end attacks on abortion centers and clinics. family-plannin- g Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Wednesday he did not know about the telegram and did not believe it had been called to Reagan's attention In his remarks to the rally. Reagan praised the marchers and condemned e abortion during a speech interrupted frequently by applause and shouts of approval. "We'll continue to work together five-minut- Gramm v Nominee Charged in m Vehicle Death allow abortiun The president, who opposes abortion except to save a mother's life also voiced his support for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion and said. "Each child who escapes the tragedy of abortion is an immeasurable victory." After listening to more than an hour of similar remarks from members of Congress, the crowd left the parklike Ellipse behind the White House and began a long procession up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol and the Supreme Court Already at the high court were 10 members of the National Organization for Women, silently holding aloft a banner reading. Thank You Justice Blackmun for Keeping Abortion Safe and Legal" a reference to Harry A Blackmun. principal author of the - Students, teachers occupy college presidents office Wednesday. They are pro- - 1973 decision. - LOS ANGELES lAPi Grammy award nominee Luther Vandross was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor manslaughter and reckless driving m a traffic accident that killed one of his friends Yandro'-s- , 34 and four others wore injured Jan 12 when Iin ear hit two oncoming ears Killed was Lawrence Salvemim. 27, of West Holly wood Police estimated the singer was driving about 50 ihytlim-and-blue- with Congress to overturn the tragedy of Roe vs. Wade." he said, referring to the 1973 high court decision to s zone Arraignment on the two charges was scheduled for Feb 12 in municipal court, said Deputy City Attorney mpli in a Martin A'ramear Vramcar said his oflue may ask for bail to tn' set during the arraignment Vandross is free without bond because he was never arrested At the rally on the Ellipse the biggest cheers aside from those for Hea-gawere for Sen. Jesse Helms, C . and for Rep Mark Siljander, K-- held who . his daughter high and declared "This n why I m pro-lif- Earlier e in the day. polite arrested demonstrators at a local abortion clinic and the office of a dot lor w ho pel (oi ms a bur lions Police said Hie clinic was bombed about a year ago A poll last November bv Louis Harris &. Associates showed support was about evenly divided on the Su preme Court decision which held that women had a constitutional right to abortion Fifty percent favored the decision and 47 percent opposed n 30 n li".-pit- al anti-aparthei- d Students Take Over Dartmouth Offices To Protest Destruction of Shantytown HANOVER. N H iL PH About students and faculty occupied D.utmouHi College offices Wednes day and vowed to stay indefinitely to t ot est the destruction of an shantytown by students 20U The sit-prompted college presi-d- t nt David McLaughlin to cut shoit an alumni tour of Florida to return to the troubled campus The protesters demanded the immediate suspension of students who iNed .sledgehammers Tuesdav to de molish tlnee shanties on the college green, wlmli were ereetej to protest the .school's South Afrit in vestments The college telused the demand We have undertaken the action to address broad issues ol racism and uppie.s.siun on this earn pus. These issues have plagued the Dartmouth community for years," said a spokesman for the protesters, who called themselves the Dart mouth Alliance against Racism and Oppression Probe Photographs More Moons, Spots Clouds Around Uranus Continued I ruin l bciau-- i 'Inn oibital mg satellites em rgy holds tin- ling n ,;i iher bmitll. llllef of the team of si in ili.iige of tin Aoy.igers pit lures said lie expulid to find additional ring moons haps ,n many as 16 more, two fur tai li ol the other eight known rings around the planet The new moons, wlmli appear as bright dots on a picture ike, Tuesday, are estimated to be nine to 12 pules thick. Smith suid flic other newlv discovet ed moons range in size fronni bmit 20 to 43 miles in diameter A-- tell-list- s The five previously known moons are much bigger, ranging in diameter from 319 to 1.010 miles are nanud Miranda Ariel I'mbriel. Titama and s Uberon after characters in an named I'ntil in by plavs ternational organization, the new moons are called 1983 Cl and 1986 C2 through C8 Smith said Voyager 2 also lias detected faint clouds and what appears to be a smog like haze blanketing the planets south pole He said the red dish brown haze is produced by reactions triggered by sunlight Hnd may Shake-speare- not be too different from the smog that often blankets Los Angeles Voyager 2 was 1.638 OOu miles from Cranus' cloud tops at midday Wednesday, falling toward the plaint at 33 219 mph Its trajectory n planned so it will whiz within .About' miles of Hie planet Friday and then soar on toward a 1989 rendezvous w it h Neptune, the m plant t out from the sun Cranus will be the most remote object visited by a spacer raft." said project scientist 'Edward Stone at a news conference We know a lot less I Piesv Laerthoto testing lack of response to destruction of shanties set up on campus. much less about Cranus than we knew about Jupiter or Saturn before the first sp.un raft flybys. As a the opportunity for discovery and sur is oven greater Smith from the Cniversity of An zonn put it Ins way an observational astronomer. I ve been trying to figure this thing out for the last 25 years Its veiv frustrating in a telescope to look at that tiny little disk and try to detei mine anything about it So the next few days an- - going to he verv exeit " ing ic-su- 'nt, I The douds showed up as elongated white patches in sequences of pictures ol the planets atmosphere By mea.sm mg the time il took for a specific cloud to make one complete i ev elution, scientists had hoped to determine the length of an Cranian day for the fit s lime But clouds at different latitudes completed a revolution at different times between 15 hours and 17 hours This meant. Smith said that Era mis must have winds in its atmos phere. but it did not pin down the length of a dav T Meanwhile, jt the Cniversity of Hampshire in Durham, about 40 students opposed to the state university s sideline divestment of South African-linkeholdings occupied a reception area outside the president's New office A group i ailed the Dartmouth omniittee to Beautify the Green Before W inter Carnival claimed responsibility for smashing the shanties Flic group said it wanted to remove "trash" from the green before Dart; mouths 7Bih winter carnival, which begins Feb 6 Students ami faculty formed a hu- I man from tion from chain to block campus Iik king doors to police the administrabuilding to prevent students entering and leaving Witnc'scs said the students occupied McLaughlins office, lulls and stairwells, singing gospel songs and listening to speakers They were do senbed as peaceful Nu arrests wete repotted lAin G irriek of the Dartmouth Alii anee Against Rawsm and Oppression said the protest,', s w, n) lege ofiu os u, itil administrators meet a list of demands, including Im mediate suspension or those who lev eled the shanties 1 |