4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily -Wednesday, October 26, 1983 U.S. car sales soar n October DETROIT (UPI) - The nation's automakers said yesterday their sales rose 41.1 percent in the middle 10 days of October and recorded the best per- formance for the period since the in- dustry's heyday in 1979. The six companies sold 235,334 autos in the Oct. 11-20 period, up 41.1 percent from 166,785 last year. The daily selling rate of 26,148 was therbest in four years. THE PERIOD'S performance works out to an annual selling rate of 7 million cars, compared to a weak 5.1 million rate in the 10 days last year. So far in October, the companies have sold 427,299 autos, up 42.8 percent from 299,171 last year. Sales of 5,400, 131 autos so far this year are up 18.4 per- cent from 4,561, 764 last year. - The Big Three automakers alone reported a sales increase of 40.4 per- cent in the middle 10 days of October. Big Three sales are up 42.7 percent for the month and up 17 percent for the year. Analysis said the sales figures reflect the popularity of the companies' 1984 models, which were introduced at the end of last month, as well as a con- tinued improvement in the nation's economy. "There's a need to replace the cars and people are beginning to have the economic confidence to step up and make the investment to replace their cars," said one industry analyst. General Motors Corp. led the automakers with a 46 percent increase for the period. GM sold 143,368 cars compared to 98,141 last year. GM said this was its best performance for the period in four years. GM sales for the month are up 46.5 percent and are up 16 percent for the year. Ford Motor Co. reported a 36 percent increase in sales for the 10 day period. Ford sold 55,658 cars versus 40,922 last year. So far this month, Ford sales are up 47.5 percent and are up 15.5 percent so far in 1983. Chrysler Corp. reported a 24 percent increase for the middle of October. It sold 47,289 cars versus 40,074 last year. Chrysler sales for October to date are up 18 percent and are up 24.5 percent for the year. Grenada invasion (Continued from Page 1) ONE OF THE first military objec- tives of hte operation was to secure the two campuses of St. George's Medical School, where about 600 American students were trapped when the military council imposed its "shoot- on-sight" curfew and closed the island's airport to international flights. The United States and its Caribbean allies in the invasion plan to reinstall the British governor general of the tiny country and have him appoint a provision government for Grenada, U.S. officials said. According to Sen. Claiborne Pell (D- R.I.), senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, about 20 Americans were wounded and "some of the strong points" on the island "were being vigorously defended." CUBA'S OFFICIAL news agen- cy,Prensa Latina, acknowl U.S. paratroopers captu Cubans who had exchange the invaders. "We inform the nation tha seven hours of combat, wi munition of the Cuban exhausted, some positions ground . . . fell to the en Cuban announcement said. "The tenacious and heroi continues at other points, i difficult conditions." THE SOVIET Union bran day's U.S. invasion of Grena of open international briga demanded an immediate wit Britain expressed stro vations about the attack o monwealth nation and F pressed surprise. The U.N. Security Counc necessary, Re edged that to meet to consider the action in ired some response to a request by Nicaragua, d fire with which called the invasion "a new aggression against the people of Latin at . .. after America and the Caribbean." th the am- U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez defenders de Cuellar said he was "particularly and high disturbed over the possibility that the nemy," the escalation of tensions could further complicate an already complex c resistance situation in the region." General n hard and Assembly President Jorge Illueca of Panama said the "use of force is ided yester- regrettable." ada "an act AS DETAILS OF the invasion by ndage" and hundreds of U.S. troops became known, thdrawal. nations from China to Egypt to ong reser- Nicaragua issued responses, mostly n the Com- negative. France ex- Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said he was waiting for proof 'il prepared American lives were in danger before agan says commenting on whether the invasion was justified. Soviet allies denounced the U.S. ac- tion as a violation of the eastern Carib- bean nation's sovereignty. Pro-Cuban Gen. Hudson Austin seized power in a bloody coup in Grenada last week. "Peaceloving humanity demands an immediate withdrawal from Grenada of the interventionist troops of the United States and their puppets," the official Soviet news agency Tass said. Reagan said the joint. operation had been mounted at the request Sunday of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. But a senior State Department official in Washington, who declined to be identified, said the decision to invade was made in the "middle of last week." Reagan will address the nation Thur- sday night on the events in Grenada and Lebanon. The, art final was a 6-foot painting. Your friends helped y ou pass with flying colors. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports State to try man accused of kidnapping Reagan aides AUGUSTA, Ga. - A judge yesterday conditionally dismissed federal charges so the state could proceed first against a man accused of crashing a pickup truck through the gate at Augusta National Golf Club, taking five hostages and demanding to speak to vacationing President Reagan on Saturday. U.S. District Judge Dudley Bowen granted a government request to dismiss the charges but gave prosecutors the option of reinstating them against Charles Harris, 45, of Augusta, at a later date. U.S. Attorney Hinton Pierce asked for the federal charges to be dropped so the state could first pursue kidnapping charges against Harris. The president was playing the 16th hole at the time. Harris had been under federal charges of making threats against the president, assault of, or resistance to, a federal officer and possession of a weapon during the commission of a felony. Soviets slaughter 126 Afghans ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A former Afghan diplomat said yesterday Soviet troops slaughtered 126 villagers in Afghanistan - mostly old men, women and children, by lobbing grenades in their houses, stabbing them with bayonets or shooting them. Habibullah Karzai, a former Afghan diplomat living in the Pakistan bor- der town of Quetta, said in an interview survivors told him 51 villagers in Kolchabad were killed Oct. 13, apparently in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on Soviets earlier in th week. "The tragedy is that almost all the victims were old men, women and children," he said. "When the mujahedeen guerrillas launch an attack they never return to their villages - they always seek safety in the hills." Governments use human rights as propaganda, report says LONDON - Amnesty International charged this week that some govern- ments - including the United States and the Soviet Union - use human rights as a propaganda ploy while covering up abuses in their own countries or in allied nations. The London-based organization, which won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for its advocacy of human rights, outlined the charges in the introduction to its "Amnesty International Report 1983." The report, covering thousands of alleged abuses in 117 countries last year, said, "Government, news media and other institutions have used human rights issues in polemical attacks on other nations while deliberately giving inaccurate public assessments of progress on human rights by their allies." The report said 1,609 prisoners were known to have been put to death around the world in 1982, including both criminals and political prisoners. Amnesty opposes capital punishment. In a three-page entry on the United States, Amnesty said its main concern was the death penalty. It said at the end of 1982 there were 1.137 prisoners on death row, "the highest figure ever recorded" in the United States. Amnesty also said it was concerned about the difficulty Haitian refugees face in winning asylum in the United States. L.A. anchorman shot in car LOS ANGELES - Jerry Dunphy, a 20-year veteran newsman and anchor of the highest rated newscast in Los Angeles, remained hospitalized yester- day with gunshot wounds from unknown assailants in anapparent random attack, authorities said. Police said they believed Dunphy was the victim of a "drive-by shooting" Monday night at an intersection near the ABC television complex in Hollywood. Dunphy, 62, was diving his dark blue Rolls-Royce convertible. His passenger, makeup artist Sandra Marshall, 36, was shot once in the right arm and was hospitalized in stable condition at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Dunphy, reported in satisfactory condition with bullet wounds to the neck and arm, has been an anchorman at KABC since 1976. The car was given to him as part of his contract. In the Monday night shooting, at least seven shots were fired at Dunphy's car, apparently all from pistols, said police Lt. Ed Henderson. Consumer costs increase .5% WASHINGTON - Prices for cars, food, and housing accelerated in Sept- ember, pushing overall consumer costs up 0.5 percent in the biggest one- month increase since May, the government reported yesterday. However, inflation for the first three quarters of the year was-still at the lowest pace in a decade. Both private and government economists said the recent pickup in prices was no cause for alarm. But White House spokesman Larry Speakes injected a note of caution. "While this monthly increase is small, and inflation remains at a very low level, this month's increase reminds us that keeping inflation under control requires constant vigilence," Speakes said. For the first nine months of this year, prices paid by consumers have risen at an annual rate of 3.7 percent, the report said. If that pace were to continue for another three months, 1983 would have the lowest rate since the 3.4 per- cent of 1972. By most accounts, prices should rise faster next year than in the no- inflation early months of this year since the economy apparently will be con- tinuing to recover, businesses will be expanding, and workers will have more money to spend. GIie AMidiqan BaIIQ Vol.XCI V=-No. 43 Wednesday, October 26, 1983 (ISSN 0745-967X) The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. 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