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By The Associated Press
Soviets purchase United States grain
WASHINGTON D.C. Private exporters reported sales Monday
of 100,000 metric tons of corn to the Soviet Union, the nation's first
major purchase of U.S. grain since the failed coup last month, the
Agriculture Department said.
The corn is being purchased under $1.5 billion in credit guar
antees authorized by President Bush in June.
A metric ton is 2,205 pounds, about 36.7 bushels of wheat or 39.4
bushels of corn.
The department said Monday's sales of "feed grains and protein
concentrates" were worth $94.4 million. Protein concentrates usually
means soybean products, but spokesman Roger Runningen said he
had no details.
Sales of wheat and corn for delivery to the Soviet Union for this
year now total 9.3 million tons, of which wheat accounts for nearly
1.5 million tons and corn totals 7.8 million tons. In addition, sales
of soybeans total 538,700 tons and soybean meal total 1.37 million
tons.
In authorizing the $1.5 billion in credit guarantees in June, Bush
said $6OO million would be available immediately. An additional $5OO
million was to become available Oct. 1, but Bush said after the coup
that $315 of that would become available. The final $4OO million in
credit guarantees is to become available Feb. 1, 1992.
Anti-Communist dissident dies in Poland
WARSAW, Poland Senator Jan Jozef Lipski, one of Poland's
best-known anti-Communist dissidents and a founder of the his
toric human rights group KOR, died yesterday of heart disease, the
PAP news agency said.
Lipski, a writer, political activist and a historian, died in a Krakow
hospital at the age of 65.
In 1976, with a group of 14 leading dissidents, Lipski founded the
Workers' Defense Committee, known by its Polish initials KOR, to
organize legal assistance for jailed workers after protests against
food price hikes and to arrange financial help for the workers'
families.
KOR campaigned against human rights abuses and encouraged
the development of opposition activities that led to the birth of
Solidarity, the first free trade union in the East bloc. KOR was
dissolved in 1981.
Residents report drug suspects by mail
PITTSBURGH Residents can report suspected drug dealers in
the city by filling out a form and dropping it in the mail.
City police have made eight arrests, since they started distrib
uting the forms in July. Many of the forms have been mailed
anonymously.
The forms, available at local police- precincts, ask for names,
addresses and descriptions of suspected drug dealers as well as
information about their vehicles.
About 65 forms have been mailed in, and more arrests are
expected, said Assistant Police Chief Earl Buford, head of the
narcotics squad.
Some forms are vague and do not offer information linked to
crime, but all are being saved.
"All of these bits and pieces are put together and are parts of our
investigation," he said.
One neighborhood group is asking for 17,000 blank forms. Police
may ask some utilities to distribute the forms.
Tropical storm kills 29 in China
BEIJING A tropical storm that lashed southern China over the
weekend killed 29 people and seriously injured six, said an official
report reaching Beijing yesterday.
The Yatigcheng Evening News of Canton reported Monday that
all the casualties occurred in Nanxiong County of Guangdong
province. It also said 11 people were missing following the tropical
storm that hit on Saturday and Sunday.
The Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office, contacted by telephone
from Beijing, refused yesterday to give updated information on the
casualties.
The newspaper said the tropical storm destroyed 1,550 houses,
leaving 3,500 people homeless.
In some areas, 13 inches of rain fell during a 24-hour period, the
newspaper said. It also said heavy rains deluged two coal mines,
but gave no details of any damage caused.
Crack cocaine may have started ferry fire
NEW YORK Fire marshals are investigating the possibility that
homeless people smoking crack in the attic of the Staten Island
Ferry terminal may have touched off the weekend fire that dev
astated the Manhattan landmark.
Investigators found dozens of empty crack vials in the area of
Whitehall Terminal where the fire began, Chief Fire Marshal John
Stickevers said yesterday.
Investigators said the fire began in an 8-foot-high cockloft, the
space between the ceiling and roof, and above the sprinkler sys
tem.
He said marshals have interviewed several homeless people
known to frequent the terminal and some have admitted being up
in the cockloft before or knowing of others who regularly used it.
Asked if a spark from a crack pipe or butane lighter used to heat
the drug could have set off the spectacular four-alarm fire,
Stickevers said: "That is a possibility and we're looking into it."
Report says French are getting friendlier
PARIS The French, long reputed to turn a cold shoulder toward
American tourists, have gotten friendlier over the past five years,
according to a survey released yesterday.
More than half of the 1,000 American tourists polled by Amer
ican Express and Maison de la France, a French tourism group, said
they got a warmer welcome than expected and detected a definite
improvement since 1986.
Only 14 percent said not speaking French caused insurmounta
ble problems.
The survey also gave a thumbnail sketch of the average Amer
ican visitor to France: financially well-off, college-educated, from
either the East or West coasts, over 45 and likely to be traveling
without small children.
Twenty percent of those surveyed earned more than $lOO,OOO
annually.
The fall of the dollar, among other factors, forced 50 percent to
skip the once-popular, four-star luxury hotels in favor of middle
range accommodations. Only 18 percent said they could still afford
the top hotels.
Baby delivered early to get heart surgery
PITTSBURGH A baby diagnosed in the womb with a deadly
heart ailment was delivered five weeks early so she could receive
a transplanted heart, doctors said yesterday.
Sarah. Kelton of Pittsburgh was in critical condition and breathing
with the help of a respirator yesterday in the intensive care unit
of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. She received the new heart in
a six-hour operation that began shortly after 11 p.m. Sunday.
"The child looks well," said John M. Armitage, one of two sur
geons who performed the transplant. "We're pleased with her
progress."
Sarah is taking the experimental but highly praised drug M-506
to prevent rejection of her transplanted heart. She will be watched
carefully, especially during the next critical week.
Sarah was delivered by Cesarean section shortly before 2 p.m.
Sunday at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh after doctors
learned a newborn donor, who was not identified, had been found.
Sarah weighed just over 5 pounds at birth.
Sarah's parents, who have one other young child, asked doctors
not to identify them so they can have privacy while they recu
perate from the ordeal, said hospital spokeswoman Sue Cardillo.
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