4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, January 6, 1984 ir) Sales increase for retailers, carmakers tin '83 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports SEC files charges against resigning Pentagon official NEW YORK -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer and a woman with whom he was said to have a "personal relationship" were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a civil suit yesterday with a $1.9 million insider stock trading scheme. The SEC filed the civil charges in U.S. District Court one day after Thayer notified President Reagan he would resign effective Jan. 12 from his post as the Pentagon's day-to-day manager to prepare his legal defense. Vowing a fight to prove his innocence, Thayer, a former chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said, "This allegation against me is entirely without merit." Thayer, 64, submitted his resignation Wednesday as the second-highest Pentagon official because of the SEC probe.. The SEC said that Thayer, before he came to the Pentagon a year ago, im- properly disclosed inside information involving proposed acquisitions by LTV Corp., Allied Corp. and Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. in 1981 and 1982. Poland negotiates with church 4 From AP and UPI The nation's retailers yesterday reported the best Christmas shopping season in almost ten years despite severe winter weather that pinched December sales in someparts of the country, and automakers announced an increase in sales last year. "December sales were strong but not as good as they could have been if con- sumers had not been deterred by record cold in the last six days before Christmas and the week after," said Terry McEvoy, retail analyst at Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. in New York. "NEVERTHELESS, it was still the best Christmas sales period in almost a decade," he said. "If the weather hadn't been bad, sales would have been superb." Sears Roebuck Co., the largest U.S. retailer based in Chicago, reported a 34.6 percent jump in December sales that topped $3 billion for the first time in the company's 97-year history. K- mart Corp., the No. 2 retailer with headquarters in Troy, Mich., had a11.3 percent increase. Third-ranked J.C. Penney Co., New York, scored an 11.6 percent gain. Sears Chairman Edward Telling said double-digit increases were recorded in all sections of the nation and in all five merchandise lines - apparel, auto- recreation, applicances, home fashions and home improvements. OTHER RETAILERS reported healthy increases as well and noticed a preference for high-quality merchandise and big-ticket items like television sets and jewelry. Meanwhile domestic automakers yes- terday reported a 17.9 percent increase in sales for 1983, the best performance in four years, while foreign companies had their highest U.S. sales in history. In 1983, the total U.S. industry had sales of 9,155,738 cars, up 15 percent from 7,955,970 the prior year. Of that total, the six American firms sold 6,786,974 autos, a 17.9 percent in- crease from 5,756,658 in 1982. The figure includes Honda for the first time. Im- port automakers sold 2,368,764 autos, up 7.7 percent from 2,199,312 in 1982. Domestic automakers had their best performance since 1979, when the five firms excluding Honda sold 8,226,752 cars. It was the first increase for automakers since their peak year of 1978. Chrysler Corp. reported the largest sales gain of the Big Three automakers, while American Motors Corp. had the industry's biggest percentage increase. Volkswagen of America recorded the only sales decline. 4 Something fishy AP Photo Thousands of fish, victims of the recent cold spell in Florida, washed ashore. throughout theePensacola area yesterday. En'vironmental officials said the fish had been dead for a few days. Controversial proposals spawn city debate (Continued from Page 1) the proposal on the April ballot. The signatures must be approved by the city clerk before the question is officially added to the ballot. Neither city officials nor the sponsors of the proposal have indicated what effect such a law would have on the University - specifically on research in- to nuclear-related fields. Most observers say the University would be exempt from the law. Another proposal directs the city to request the United States government to withdraw some of its aid to Israel, which sponsors of the proposal say the Israeli government has abused. THE PROPOSAL, sponsored by the People for the Reassessment of Aid to Israel (PRAI) states: "The people of the City of Ann Arbor urge the UnitedStates Government to withold foreign economic aid designated for Israel by an amount equivalent to that i i which Israel spends to retain, settle and administer the Arab territories occupied in and after 1967." PRAI organizer Stanley Mendenhall said the group formed after the June, 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Mendenhall, a 34-year-old financial consultant for health care institutions, said "We felt we had to do something to bring about peace. "What we want to accomplish is to have a policy statement to go to the federal policy makers," he said. IN ORDER to appear on the ballot, the PRAI proposal either must be added to the ballot by the council or be presented as amendment to the city's charter, a process which requires 5,000 resident signatures on a petition supporting the proposal. PRAI has chosen to work through the city council, Mendenhall said, because members of the group feel residents will not vote for the proposal as a charter amendment. The city council could sponsor the proposal as an ordinance. So far, however, no city council member has of- fered to sponsor the proposal. The motion could be voted on at next Monday's council meeting, but Democrats and Republicans both are wary of its necessity and possible impact. THIRD-WARD Democratic Councilman Raphael Ezekiel said that on behalf of his Democratic caucus, "we feel that this should not be part of the city char- ter." Ezekiel said the proposal "would not have any im- pact on the actions of our federal government. You cannot create peace simply by addressing one factor in a very complicated issue." See PROPOSALS, Page 5 WARSAW, Poland - Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Communist par- ty chief and premier, met Cardinal Jozef Glemp yesterday in church-state summit talks apparently dealing with political prisoners and aid to private farmers. Freedom for political prisoners and the future of a church-proposed aid fund for private farmers are two painful topics for the communist regime. Glemp, the primate of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, has been pressing for release of 11 prominent officials of the banned Solidarity trade union and other dissidents held for more than two years without trial. Jaruzelski has offered to drop charges against the prisoners, who include former aides to Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, provided they agree to leave Poland. The government has denied Western claims the 11 are being deliberately mistreated to coerce them to accept exile. Nigerian leaders remain in jail LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's new military ruler, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buhari, declared yesterday that the country's deposed leaders would be kept in jail until his Supreme Military Council.decides whether to put them on trial. The 41-year-old Buhari did not indicate when'Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, might return to civilian rule but said he wanted to get idle factories working again and instill a "sense of ethics" into Nigerian) workers. The new leaders have decreed a cut of at least 50 percent in prices and many vendors have refused to comply, prompting violence in some markets. The Nigerian News Agency said military authorities in the central city of Jos reported a soldier was shot to death in a fight in the marketplace. Buhari said Alhaji Shehu Shagari, the elected civilian president ousted from office Saturday, was in military custody, and that the new regime was deterthining whether he and other former government leaders should be kept in jail. Troops fire on Tunisian rioters TUNIS, Tunisia - Soldiers opened fire on rioters trying to burn a super- market in the heart of the city's shopping district yesterday in the latest out- break of violence over food price hikes. Unofficial reports said 57 people have been killed in a week of nationwide rioting. Troops fired on youths who stormed the Magasin Generale on the edge of the Medina, the labyrinth of tiny market streets in the heart of the old city. The casualty toll was not known, but a reporter saw three wounded demonstrators carried away as security forces used automatic weapons, pistols and tear gas in a 30-minute barrage that drove away the crowd. The Medina was sealed off by tanks and the area was reported calm less than an hour later. The U.S. Embassy in Tunis was advising Americans not to travel to the. south. Rioting first broke out in the southern part of this north African country Dec. 29 after the government announced increases of up to 10 percent on the price of bread and other staples, subsidized for years at unchanged prices. New AIDS case strengthens evidence of heterosexual risk NEW YORK - The discovery of AIDS in an elderly Florida couple provides the strongest evidence yet that the disease, most commonly found in homosexuals, can be spread through heterosexual contact. Doctors at the University of Miami said yesterday that a woman in her 70s with none of the known risk factors for acquired immune deficiency syn- drome appears to have contracted the illness through sexual contact with her husband of 50 years. The husband, a hemophiliac, presumably got AIDS through blood products given to him to treat his hemophilia, said Dr. Arthur Pitchenik, professor of medicine at the University of Miami. Transfusions of such blood products have been recognized as a likely means of transmitting AIDS, doctors said. Researchers have previously identified cases in which AIDS seems to have been transmitted from an abuser of intravenous drugs to a heterosexual partner. Intravenous drug abusers are known to be at risk of developing AIDS. "To me this case is further confirmation that those previous cases may be true, that it (AIDS) really was transmitted through intimate contact, heterosexual contact," Pitchenik said in a telephone interview. 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