European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. January 29. 1990 the stars and stripes Payo 3 soviet Economy limps through 1989 unrest contributes to dismal showing Moscow i i the soviet Economy battered by labor and ethnic strikes failed to meet planned targets last year and disappointed consumer Hopes. Tass said sunday in a dismal report card on Mikhail Gorbachev s economic reforms. The official soviet news Agency said inflation Rose to record Levels while mus rial output Rose by a Mere 1.7 percent As opposed to the 3.5 percent la incl. It said the Gross National product or total value of goods and services produced increased by 3 percent missing the target of 4.5 percent. This insignificant production growth rate is attributed largely to Industry s unsatisfactory performance in the second half of the  Tass said. The economic situation in the country remains  the report continued. Tension on consumer markets Rose. The dynamism of economic development declined. Many important targets of the coun try s socioeconomic development plans for 1989 were not  quoting new figures published by the government s statistical committee. Gong Umstat. The Agency said National income increased 2.4 percent and labor productivity Rose 2.3 percent. But the rest of the news was bad. Inflation Overall was 1 5 percent while consumer prices and services Rose 2 percent above i is s Rale la explained that the Overall inflation was a result t unsatisfied demand. Soviet economist have estimated Bank savings arc growing at 3 percent a ear Tot a total of loll billion rubles $4sd Hil Honl by Ulusc of the Lack of anything Lohu. Out 7 million Man Days were lost due to strikes it said. Contributing to the lost work hours  the Summa Wulc nationwide Coal strike and the ethnic strife in the republics of Armenia a Cuba Tjan. Georgia and Moldavia. Labor discipline slackened in All branches of the National Economy. Last year witnessed increased absence from work Idle time and personal  the Agency said. The soviet president had hoped that the now completed transition to Cost accounting and self financing of government enterprises would provide initiative for managers and workers. But the plants mostly work to fulfil Safe stale con tracts which amount to almost i to percent of their output and leave Little incentive for employees to work harder. In she a Pood Harvest of 21 1 million tons of Grain Farmers failed to or liver one in Neil of the amounts required by conir.n.1 to the state. I ass said Mill Iofi tons of Grain were added to the of can mint s resources or 27.1 Millon inns less than called Lor by state planned order. The shortfall in Gram deliveries will Lorce the soviet t Noti to import some v million inns of Gram this Yeai. Which is purchased Lai Cly from the i noted Stales Hil tit of potatoes and sunt Lowers Lor Oil Rose and the sugar beet Harvest was Good by the soviet i Mon grew less grapes Collon and vegetables Ilian in i ass. Tass said economic restructuring is continuing and the conversion of military to civilian production has been started although in gave no figures. Management stall was Cut by 14 percent to 254. Ill in the construction Industry slowed and although for eign Trade turnover Rose 4.7 percent Over 198s. Imports exceeded exports. Imports totalled do 2 billion a bibles ji09.i2 Lite. Lion according to the official Rale a 1.7 percent increase Over i is. However imports also Rose to a total of 711.2 billion is 12.12 billion a 7.9 percent Over i98s. Mandela refusing Freedom until demands met Cyscon Kart los Annuli s times Johannesburg. South Africa the wife of Nelson k Mandela said sat urday thai the Black nationalist Leader is refusing to leave prison until the govern ment lists us stale of emergency Legah is the african National c ingress and Al lows exiled activists to return Home Winnie Mandela s remarks marked the first time anyone has suggested publicly thai South Africa s most famous prisoner has established preconditions for his own release anti apartheid Lead ers and others who have visited Mandela say he War s to be free immediately and that the limit ". Of his release is entirely in the hands of the government. The government has announced its m tension to release the 71-year-old prisoner the most widely respected Ami apart Heid Leader among South Africa s 26 million Blacks and says the Only ques Tion is when and under what Circum stances. Government sources have suggested that Mandela could be freed As Early As next month Bui Winnie Mandela speaking to re porters after a four hour visit Wanh her husband at Victor Verster i Rison near c ape town said it is quite Clear prob lems have cropped up about his immedi ate release " she identified the 3 year old emergency and the ban on the Anc. The principal guerrilla group fighting while minority led Rule As two of the major hurdles to her husband s release. There is no question of him walking out of Victor Var scr without those de mands having been  because he would not be Able to operate freely and  Mandela said. She added that the government has serious problems meeting those conditions. A Justice ministry spokeswoman. Elsa Winnie Mandela Speaks til reporters saturday after a four hour Isit with her Liu Shand in Sun Mandela at his prison Home near Cape town South Africa. Jones said saturday Hal she was not aware of any development that could delay Mandela s rflcavt1. The conditions mentioned by Winnie Mandela closely parallel the pet Negolia Linin demands of Ihen. Which include ending the . Freeing political prisoners. Lifting the ban on the no and other anti spam lipid Gumps. Allow ing exiles lit return to Smith Alarka. And halting political trials. President i a link w. De Klerk has promised to open negotiations Lor a new South inca in which Whites and  would  polu ital Power and the pics Demis acknowledged the need to create a Canna in fur those negotiations by removing  on anti apart k old activity. He is expected to present is first Steps Lor facial Reform Al the opening of parliament on a riday. And government sources say he intends to Eccl the demands of anti apartheid groups slowly. The release of Mandela who has served 27 years of a life sentence for sabotage is considered crucial to gelling negotiations Between the government and the Black majority under Way. Even moderate Black leaders who Are Al Odds with Mandela s an have refused to negotiate until he is free. In recent months Mandela has met extensively Nith government officials and  apartheid leaders. He has expressed a desire to act As a Facilitator to bring the iwo sides to the table and he is expected to play an important role in those negotiations alter his release. Miler a meeting with her husband three weeks ago. Winnie Mandela. 5.1. Told reporters that Mandela was upbeat and that his imminent release was the real  but on saturday she said he was More subdued. Subway rider opens fire on harassers killing 1 new York up a gun Loling passenger on a subway train in the Bronx opened fire saturday on i rec men who witnesses said were looking for Trou  killing one and wounding the others authorities said. The gunman remained at Large following the shoot ing Al 1 10 . On the Manhollan bound no. 2 train carrying 20 other passengers. Transit police spokes Man Al o scary said. Before the gunfire erupted witnesses Lold author lies. The Ihrck men were looking for trouble. Acting in a threatening manner As they walked Back and Forth in the subway train o Leary said. Some witnesses reported they hid their jewelry and valuables look off their rings and put them in their  he said. Witnesses said the gang bumped into a Young his panic Man drinking a Beer began an argument and then left him alone Only to return minutes later said o . During the second confrontation the hispanic Man. To was armed with a gun began shouting and then fired five or six shots at the souths o Leary said. Tyronne Macon. 23. Of the Bronx was killed he said.  residents Eric Morion in and  Bingham 25. Were shot in the Chest and taken to Lin Coln Hospital o Leary said. A Hospital spokesman said Morton was seriously wounded in the shooting while Hingham was reported in stable condition. Most of the 20 people in the Tram at the time of the shooting fled when the subway pulled into the i ree Man Street station he said. Morion found carrying a .32-caliber revolver with one spent Shell was Laler charged with criminal weapons Possession. O Leary said. The killing was the third deals in the subway system this year. O Leary said. Earlier this month a teen age Hoy was robbed and shot dead in Brooklyn and last week a homeless Man died after he was beaten in Manhattan by a Man enraged because the vagrant had attacked him and spit on his 3-Vear-old son