^0 MANCUKSTKH HKHAl.l), Siilurdiiy. Dfc 29. 19H4 U.S./WORLD FOCUS SPORTS WEATHER BUSINESS Burger wants tenth What’s ‘in’ and ‘out’ Dog day afternoon 1984 goes out Wet; justice on court warming up Tuesday Composlte Index of _ as ’84 nears an end for Bears, Steelers Economy resuming average growth Leading Economic ... page 4 ... page 16 ... page 11 ^ ... page 2 Indicators ''967=100 405,000, an average of 500 com m on and confirm ed "the economy is not However, in March it began to By Denis G. Gulino weaken, a warning sign of the abrupt stock prices improved and orders tipping into a recession period at all.' gained for consumer goods. Up % United Press Internotionai In I.os Angeles, where President economic slowdown in the second half. 1.3 Left on the negative side were a Reagan,was vacationing. White House The weakness persisted through 170- WASHINGTON — The govern­ spokesman I.arry Speakes called the October, a month when the index decline in out.standing credit and a ment's index of leading indica­ report "a New Year's greeting of dropped a revised 0.5 percent speedup in deliveries. economic health and vitality for 198a The accompanying coincident index tors, registering a fundamental and said the increase "suggests an Kconom ists hope the latest decline in of leading indicators, measuring what improvement in the economy, end " to the economic slowdown that interest rates has im proved the outlook actually happened in November rather ilanrhfBtrr Hrralft went up 1.3 percent in November, began in .Inly for early next year. than looking forward, rose a moderate 165- Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Monday, Dec 31, 1984 — Single copy: 25C the .strongest increase in 10 "The economic news for the New The composite index is lfi6.6 for 0.6 percent. Year looks very promising." he said. November, compared to a base ol 100 in months, the Commerce Depart­ It barely moved in September, Nine of the II available indicators 1907, the department said. ment said Friday. gaining 0.2 percent, and in October were on the upside. The index ha.s been - > t .\n iiicToa.se in building perm its and a weak in the second half of the year, In addition to November's increase when it was up only 0 1 percent. mure genenius money supply from the actually going down three times in six in building permits and the money Federal Keservft were the major supply, there also were substantial Last week's half-point drop to \(P/* 1 6 0 ^ Viets ■r- months percent in the prime rate of interest positive laetors fot: the month improvements in new orders for Americans ' There are a uV-uf good signs. ' "A lot of people interpreted the data factory machinery, an increase in raw charged customers by banks and economist Robert (iougR~"^ld, "that we saw in the .second half of 1984 to materials prices that suggested in­ Friday’s lowering of the rate banks would indicate we ought to start IflBSon mean the economy was ready to head creased demand and a small increase have to pay the Federal Reserve to 8 shell very good footing but fortunately not as into a recessionary period" Gough in the formation of new businesses. •ercent, the lowest in six years. strong a footing as early 1984 btu*iuse said Any substantial im provem ent w ill be 155 The index is designed to anticipate The length of the average work week ND JFMAMJ JASON we wouldn't want that." j f welcome after wbat appeared to be a get ready what the economy will be doing in the grew by one-tenth of an hour; claims Gough said the strong November for unemployment benefits dropped to disappointing Christmas selling 1983 1984 report was better than his forecast liiture. a job it performs with only rebels a weekly average of 397.000 from season. firm. Data Resources Inc . expected mixed success: By Sumalee Slack Trade deficit $115.4 biliion so far in ’84 United Press Internatlanal to greet ’85 NONG SAMET, Thailand - Business Vietnamese artillery pounded the Year-end figure could be double that of ’83 embattled anti-communist Khmer By United Press International House and a p.irly ,il Ihc cstalc id In Brief rebel base at Nong Same! today millionaire publisher Walter In T im es .Square ,i big bright red Annenberg during the year. and guerrillas exchanged fire with By Donald H. May "To stem the tide of red ink we U.S. Merchandise Trade apple w ill slide dow n a pole and in In the French Qii.liter in New United Press International mu.st begin to cut the budget deficit Exports were essentially un­ 2,000 Vietname.se troops massed changed at $18.4 billion, reflecting November 1984 outside the burned and battered Washington. D C . the seconds w ill Orleans a six hour compiilei lighi Perry gets top post by cutting federal spending. This be licked off by the desceni ol a show w ill Ih* topped at luidiiight increases in agricultural exports cam p. WASHINGTON - The United will leave more resources availa­ huge iHistage stamp with the de.scent ol .i .'P foot VERHON .lack IVrry of Vernon was recently including corn, soybeans, tobacco 3 Slates imported $9 9 billion more ble to the private sector to continue Another guerrila band, the com­ In the French Quarter, a big ball filM'rglass ball on a brewery Hells elected to a top-level post in the Connecticut and animal feeds and declines in 1 ^ ' / goods than it exported in No­ investment in improving their munist Khmer Rouge, attacked w ill he lowered on a brew ery and in will ring. Iirewiirks will soar over Chapter of the International Association for manufactured goods, among them vember. pushing its merchandise productivity and competitiveness two Vietname.se bases in a move to Roche.sler. N Y . a glassTneVTTtor Fintincial Planning electrical machinery, chemicals, the Mississipiii Rivei and the trade deficit to $115.4 billion forthe and it should also hold down open a second front against the with strobe lights w ill slide dow n a riverboat Natibez w ill pi.ly ".-Xiild I’erry. president of Benefit Plans Inc.. ;i parts for data processing equip­ first eleven months of the year, the interest rates. " invaders and take the pre.ssure off story shaft Vernondia.sed investment advisory firm, is the ment and telecommunications 21 Lang Sy iie" oil .1 calliope government reported Friday. Most economi.sts say the federal the Nong Samet defenders. .\l midnight lonighi Americans chapter's chairman ;ind ha.s been nominated for equipment. Deputy Commerce Secretary budget deficit contributes to a Red Cross officials said three will say gisidbye to 1984 and The Rochester celebration is uul__ membership in the organization's national hoard The U.S. bilateral trade deficit Clarence J. Brown said that unless strong dollar by keeping U.S. rebels were killed and nine welcome in 1985 with all the just (or New Ye.ir'sbul .ilsolor'Ihe of directors with Japan was $2.7 billion in the December figures differ interest rates relatively high and wounded in the Nong Samet traditional revelry they can city's ses(|iiicentenni.il The local November, the smallest since UPI pholo sharply, the trade deficit for the thereby attracting foreign capital. shelling. No report of Vietname.se m uster point of the I.Stith .uiniversary will year will be about ,$125 billion, The dollar has risen about .50 April. But it brought the 11-month casualties was available. be a hotel with a strobe lighted Prague moves headquarters total deficit with Japan to $34.02 The most traditional ol all New glass ele\alor that will dro|> 21 nearly double last year's record percent against the average of Some 3,500 rebels of the Khmer Troops stand guard billion, nearly a third of the total Y e a r's parlies w ill la- in New stories as 1984 closes EAST HARTP'OR I) - The Prague Shoe Co Inc. red ink of $69.4 billion. other major currencies in recent Peoples National Liberation U.S. trade deficit. York's Times Square where As w ith other years, the nation's recently opened its new headquarters on Pitkin This would be a shade better years. That acts as a .50 percent tax Front, armed mainly with mortars Heavily armed troops stand guard in (National Action Party) clased with hundreds of thousands of |H-ople law enforcenieiil agencies w ill be Street in East Htirtford than the $1.30 billion 1984 trade on U.S. exports and a 50 percent That is likely to be a topic when and recoilless rifles, could do front of the gutted remains of City Hall in police and troopers this weekend The w ill w al<"h a lighted red apple s'bije es|M'cially busy trying 'o keep On hand for the dedication of the newly deficit projected by the adminis­ subsidy of imports. President Reagan and Japanese nothing against Vietnamese ar­ down a |iole high above I he crow (Is drunken drivers off the ro.ids renovated building were stale repre.sentatives tration at midyear. Brown said the The November trade deficit was Prime Mini.ster Yasuhiro Naka- tillery positioned miles away. But Piedras Negras, Mexico after rioting fighting left two dead and 40 injured in up from $9.2 billion in October. ll will be the last year lor the In many areas ( iv ic grmqis, Richard Torpey and Timothy Mqynihan.