European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a a the stars and stripes Friday december 28, 1990drop in orders signals More layoffs Washington apr orders to manufacturers for. Durable goods plummeted 10.5 percent in november the government said thursday. The report portends More layoffs in the factory sector which lost 200,000 jobs last month and More than 800,000 in the last two years. The drop in orders matched the Post-1958 record fall off for one month set in january of this year. It reduced orders to a seasonally adjusted 5.115.9 billion the lowest level since May 1988, Jhc Commerce department said. On Capitol Hill the chairman of the joint economic committee rep. Lee Hamilton d-tnd., predicted that nationwide unemployment could hit 8 percent in the current downturn. The jobless rate Rose to 5.9 percent last month. Quot we will in fact have a recession a said Hamilton in his 1991 economic forecast. He said it could prove moderate or severe depending on the outcome of the persian Gulf crisis. Quot a settlement in the Gulf could reduce inflation and encourage an Early recovery a Hamilton said. Quot but if the crisis intensifies the downturn will be longer and deeper. If War comes All bets arc orders for durable goods a items expected to last three or More years a had risen 3.6 percent in october but have been Down in six of 11 months so far in 1990. Quot to me this is the last Nail in the coffin for the recession a said economist Sung won Sohn of Norwest corp. In Minneapolis. Quot its such a whopping and across the. Board decline that it indicates we arc in a deep recess a a. A 1 Sion. Quot i think employment will continue to take a pretty significant beating a said Sohn who is forecasting a loss of an additional 75,000 manufacturing jobs in december. However some analysts saw a Glimmer of Hope amid the gloom. They said pressure from overseas competitors has forced manufacturers to trim payrolls sooner than in previous recessions. That could help avoid even bigger layoffs later they said. 1 a we look for a bad employment number in december. But to the extent that manufacturers have succeeded in keeping payrolls in line with what they feel will be the worst Casc Outlook for demand i am hopeful that the worst of the Job loss May be behind rather than ahead of us a said economist Stephens Roach of Morgan Stanley and co financial firm. Iri november declines in new orders were widespread but deepest in the transportation and defense industries. Transportation orders fell 27,4 percent in november. Thai included a drop of 38.8 percent in aircraft and parts More than offsetting october a 29.4 percent increase. Boeing co. Earlier reported new orders of $5.2 billion Down from $19.7 billion a month earlier. Automobile and parts orders also fell. Excluding the volatile transportation sector orders fell 3.5 percent to their lowest Levels in two years after edging Down 0.2 percent in october. Ready if . Calls a of is it a Benicia Calif. Apr scores of rusting old ships float in ranks on an Inland Bay Northeast of san Francisco looming out of the Chilly fog like ghostly oceangoing tombstones. A congressional critics want to junk the 66-ship Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet but Charlie Johnston caretaker of the Quot ghost Fleet a says the ships Are ready to weigh Anchor if the nation needs them again. A Many of these ships go Back to service in world War ii Korea Vietnam Quot said Johnston 40, the fleets acting superintendent. Hanging on a Wall was a Board with the name and location of each ship 33 of them world War ii Victory ships All part of a Fleet that once numbered 700, Quot pick Otic. You Call it a he said to assure that a tour steer the visitor toward a specially prepared ship. A Cia spy vessel is off limits though. During the last session of Congress the ships Here and at fort Eustis Viand Beaumont Texas came under fire from the House Small business committees subcommittee on regulation business opportunities and Energy. A a v Quot a a a. A a Quot the taxpayers Are getting repeatedly fleeced. For these maritime cadavers a said rep. Ron Wyden of Oregon subcommittee chairman. Williams Broom Fielt of Michigan ranking Republican on the House foreign affairs committee ships As a glorified rust buckets.�?�. The array of ships local landlubbers Call the Quot Mothball fleets is impressive from a distance and the spookiness that earned it the nickname a ghost fleets is evident while approaching in a tugboat. They re tied in rows anchored at the Bow and Stern and joined to each other by gangplank. Almost All Are Gray and rust stains their hulls. They include the Slomar explorer the Cia ship built to retrieve a sunken soviet submarine. Since the secret voyage off Hawaii in 1974, the 618-foot ship has been waiting for a new role. L Quot we keep the explorer Here for the Navy a Johnston said explaining the Slomar explorer Isnit maritime administration property like nearly All the other ships is Rcv 5 a six a it a a i i Ltd i it it a \. I s amp Ftp an Aerial photo shows ships with the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet anchored near Benicia Calif. You can to visit the Slomar explorer but the Meredith Victory dubbed Quot the Gallant lady for rescuing thousands of korean War refugees is a Good substitute rust was rampant. Paint chips littered the deck Cav ing Metal naked to the elements. Painters used to keep Busy on the Fleet but Money ran out in. The mid-1980s. Quot besides to us rust is no big Deal As Long As the Metal is sound a Johnston said As he stamped his foot to show the steels hardness. Quot if it really got bad we could put another plate Over a unlike the outside the ships Interior was clean almost spotless and Creepy. Charts books spare parts bedding and other items were left where they were in 1971 when the ship re turned from Vietnam. The Lack of Interior rust is maintained by systems that keep airborne moisture Low. Below deck it m ust look much As it did in december 1950, when it evacuated 14,000 koreans As chinese troops besieged the South korean City of Hun Jiam. Five babies were born during the voyage that ended in Pusan South Korea on Christmas Day. Built in 1945, the cargo vessel served in world War ii. It became part of the Reserve Fleet after Korea Only to be pulled out for duty in Vietnam. Could it happen again a. =.it would take a presidential act to Call out the Reserve Fleet which is supposed to be ready to sail on 30 to 120 Days notice. The ready Reserve 96 newer ships kept at several ports was set up to carry heavy military gear on five to 20 Days notice to . Cincinnati a a Man who fled to allegedly feeding drug laced Spaghetti to two women and then sexually assaulting them pleaded guilty thursday to felony sex charges Nicola la none 35, pleaded guilty in Hamilton county common pleas court to two charges of Gross sexual imposition then was returned to the Hamilton county Justice Center to be jailed without Bond pending his Jan. 24 sentencing. He could be sentenced to i1/ years in prison and fined $2,500 on each of the two counts. A a. Quot a. As part of the plea bargain prosecutors dropped six other charges against la la none an italian born naturalized . Citizen worked As a restaurant consultant in Cincinnati and Chicago. La none had lost an extradition proceeding in Italy and was appealing it when he decided to voluntarily return to the United states last week and face the charges officials said la none had been jailed for 15 months in Italy while the extradition proceedings were pending. Inn one a victims alleged that he came to their Cincinnati apartment on feb. 23, 1988 and fed them a pasta dinner and that they woke up the next Day with their clothes off the charges la none pleaded guilty to alleged that he had sexual Contact with both victims and gave them drugs either by Force or deception. / judge Norbert Nadel issued an arrest warrant for la none after he failed to show tip of his May 1988 arraignment. The Fri announced in March 1989 that la none had been located in Mike Italy. Not curse Arlington a. Up j police Are investigating Hie Case of a maintenance worker who was bilked out of his life savings when he asked a fortuneteller to remove a Cirse on him. Police detective James Griswold told the Arlington journal on wednesday that a Spanish speaking woman by two Een 35 and 40 set up a Fortun Efel Lerus shop in Arlington a maintenance worker at am apartment building believed he was having bad Luck so he went to the fort Netel Lei two or three times. The Man who was not identified by police had been told Quot someone had put the evil spirit in the fortuneteller Jit candles told the Man to strip to his underwear and rubbed his body with raw eggs. She then told him that to remove the curse she would have to bless his Money overnight. To meet her request for $20,000, the Man came up with $6,000 of his own Money and borrowed $10,000 from friends which was close enough for the fortuneteller. The victim left the Money with the woman and went Home. Quot he came Back at noon the next Day and she was gone a said Griswold who works in the police departments White Cohar crime unit Quot she had disappeared. That w As his life savings and probably the life savings of several other
