Page4-Sotur'dayMay 8; 1982-The Michigan Daily Unemployment rate reaches 9.4 percent WASHINGTON (AP) - Unem ployment climbed to 9.4 percent of the labor foice in April, a postwar record, and Democrats seized upon yesterday's report as evidence that President Reagan's economic program has delivered nothing but "pink slip after pink slip after pink slip." Some 16.3 million Americans were out of work last month as jobless- ness among adult men, blue-collar workers, blacks, and teen-agers was the highest in modern times, the Labor Department said.. SOME 453,000 people were added to the unemployment lines in April, com- pared to the previous month, when the jobless rate matched the post-World War II recession peark of 9 prcent in May 1975. The four-tenths of a percentage point rise produced the higheat level of joblesaneas since the government began keeping monthly figures in 1948. the all-time high was un annualized 24.9 percent in the Great Depression year Kennedy of 1933. On Capitol Hill, there were ... blasts economic policy suggestions by Reagan's critics that the nation is lapsing into a repeat of those by late spring-earlysummer,' hesaid. grim times. The spokesman said that in the mean- "RONALD REAGAN'S bread lines time "we're paying the price of years grew longer by 450,000 people," Sen. and years of Democratically controlled Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) fumed at a congresses, which have spent and meeting of the congressional Joint spent." Economic Committee. Since April 1981, when the unem- Kennedy, who sought unsuccessfully ployment rate was 7.3 percent, ap- to wrest the Democratic Party's 1980 proximately 2.4 million people have presidential nomination'from incum- been thrown out of work, according to bent Jimmy Carter, said the latest jobs th~e figures, which are adjusted to take report shows that Reagan has only into account seasonal factors. delivered "pinkslip after pink slip after Blue-collar joblessness reached 13.7 pink slip to millions of decent men and percent last month as the slump in the women." construction and manufacturing in- White IDouse spokesman Larry dustries continued, and black unem- Speakes called the figures "disappoin- ployment climbed to a record 18.4 per- ting" and said "we remain sensitive to cent. "theplight of the unemployed." Adult men, the traditional family SPEAKES SAID be could not predict breadwinners, suffered a record-high how far unemployment would rise - or 8.2 percent jobless rate. And dearly one when it might begin to wane. "We're in every four teen-agers - a record looking for signs of economic recovery high-was unable to find work. Business leaders see economicw upturn soon In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Hinckley's parents wanted to institutionalize him WASHINGTON- Two or three times John Hinckley's parents told a psychiatrist they wanted to put their depressed son in an institution, and each time the physician talked them out of it, the mother of the president's attacker said yesterday. "Dr. Hopper said, 'No, no, that will make acripple out of him. If you think he's sick now, he's really going to be sick if you put him in a hospital," JoAnn Hinckley testified at her son's trial. Hinckley's mother, the first defense witness, was on the stand for six hours in two days before she was excused at noon. She walked out of the court without a glance at her son, who followed her with his eyes. She testified that Hinckley was a patient of Dr. John Hopper in Denver beginning Oct. 25, 1980. She recalled that on March 10, 1981, she told Hopper that she did not think John would be in to see him any more. During the time that John was seeing Hopper, singer John Lennon was murdered in New York-an event that so upset Hinckley that he stood in the same spot later with a gun in his pocket. Graham crusades in Russia MOSCOW- Evangelist Billy Graham opened a six-day peace crusade yesterday in the Soviet Union, promising to respect his hosts and declaring history and God will not be forgiving if religious leaders fail to avert a nuclear catastrophe. "I am convinced it is time for religious leaders to meet and make whatever contributions (they can) to peace in our generation," the 63-year- old Southern Baptist said in an airport statement. He came to the Soviet capital to participate in a May 10-14 conference of religious leaders opposed to nuclear war, organized by the state-authorized Russian Orthodox church. Twenty-five other U.S. clerics were also invited. "The Gospel of Jesus Christ which I have proclaimed for many years is the gospel of Peace. The God I serve is the God of Love, mercy and forgiveness," Graham said. Graham's visit has been criticized by some fellw U.S. clergymen and Soviet religious activists who say he will be exploited by Sovietpropagan- dists to blame Washington for the arms race. Iran recaptures land from Iraq BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iran claimed yesterday its troops have fought their way to the pre-war border, recapturing more than 100 square miles of oc- cupied territory from the Iraqi invaders in an eight-day offensive. Iraq said it had "contained the Iranans," butfighting still raged. If the Iranan claims are true, Iran's troopare within 15 miles - artillery range - of Basra, Iraq's largest port with access to the Persian Gulf. the 116-square-mile area the Iranians said they retook is a rectangular patch just north of the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr, south of Hosseinieh, bounded on the west by the Iraqi border and on the east by a nor- th-south highway and rail line linking Khorramshahr with the Iranian city of Ahwaz. A late Iraqi communique acknowledged the Iranians were attacking in southwestern Iran but said the new attack was "aimed at easing pressure on Iranian forces trapped ina pocket of death." Bush pays goodwill visit to China PEKING - Vice President George Bush, warned by Chinese Communist leaders of critical frictions over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, said yesterday he was visiting to promote Washington's "good faith" in pledging strong ties with China.. The Vice President also denounced what he called expansionism by the Soviet Union and said the United States and China share "a common respon- sibility" to maintain global peace. But Bush did not announce any U.S. change of position on arms sales to Taiwan, seat of the rival Nationalist government. Peking is demanding the United States stop all sales to the island, which the Communists consider a Chinese province. Arriving after a day's rest in the Southern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Bush was welcomed by a military honor guard and about 300 schoolgirls who dan- ced and waved pompoms in the plaza in front of the great Hall of the People, where officialsentertain foreign guests. Nation's money supply drops NEW YORK - The nation's basic money supply fell $4.9 billion in the final week of April, the Federal Reserve Board said yesterday. The decline wiped out much of a huge increase in the first week of the month. Reaction in the credit markets was muted. Bond prices rose moderately immediately after the report was released but later retreated and finished the day with modest gains. Interest ratesedgedslightly lower. 4 .4 4 4 4 4 0 HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) - Despite a national unemployment rate that is the highest since World War II, the nation is pulling out of recession, a group of the nation's top corporate executives said yesterday. But they conceded that recovery could be less robust than after most recessions, particularly if interest rates remainhigh. ARMED BY a new forecast from their own economists, members of the Business Council said that they see bet- ter times ahead and they still firmly support President Reagan's economic program as a way to get there. The group, which includes the leaders of about ,200 major U.S. corporations, meets. twice a year at this western Virginia resort town for high-level shop talk and briefings by government 9f- ficials on a wide variety ofitopics. The council released its economists' semi-annual report on the U.S. economy yesterday about the same time the Labor Department announced in Washington that the nation's jobless rate had hit 9.4 percent in April. THE GROUP'S overall outlook forecasting recovery beginning now and accelerating this summer, predic- ted a peak unemployment rate of 9.2 percent. Specifically, the forecast says national economic activity, as measured by in- flation-adjusted gross national product, will rise slightly in thetcurrent quarter and then "accelerate to a 4.3 percent annual rate during the second half" of the year. That is about what the Reagan ad- ministration is forecasting, though its officals say GNP may still be slightly down this quaite'. I I