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The less-than-robust third-quarter results came amid renewed concern about the volatility of stock prices and the role of computer-aided program trading. Taken together, the worries prompted a broad sell-off of stocks. The number of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange that fell in price yesterday exceeded 1,000, a key measure of underlying sentiment among technical analysts. Although the government said the economy grew an estimated 2.5% in the third quarter, in line with expectations, analysts are increasingly predicting much more sluggish growth — and therefore more corporate earnings disappointments — for the fourth quarter. "There are a lot more downward revisions of earnings forecasts than upward revisions," said Abby Joseph Cohen, a market strategist at Drexel Burnham Lambert. "People are questioning corporate profits as a pillar of support for the equity market." The bond market was unmoved by the economic statistics. While bond investors would have preferred growth to be a little slower, they were cheered by inflation measures in the data that showed prices rising at a modest annual rate of 2.9%. That is another small encouragement for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in coming weeks, they reasoned. In major market activity: Stock prices fell sharply in active trading. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange totaled 175.2 million shares. Declining issues on the Big Board outstripped gainers 1,141 to 406. Bond prices were barely higher. The Treasury's benchmark 30-year bond rose fractionally. Yield on the issue was 7.88%. The dollar rose modestly against most major currencies. In late New York trading the dollar was at 1.8400 marks and 142.10 yen compared with 1.8353 marks and 141.52 yen Wednesday. The dollar soared against the pound, which was at $1.5765 compared with $1.6145 Wednesday. | Some lousy earnings reports <ei481>whacked</ei481> the stock market, but bond prices <ei482>fell</ei482> only slightly and the dollar <ei483>rose</ei483> a little against most major currencies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average <ei484>tumbled</ei484> 39.55 points, to 2613.73, in active trading. Long-term Treasury bonds <ei486>ended</ei486> slightly higher. The dollar <ei487>rose</ei487> modestly against the mark and the yen, but <ei488>soared</ei488> against the pound following the resignation of Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson. Analysts have <ei490>complained</ei490> that third-quarter corporate earnings haven't been very good, but the effect <ei492>hit</ei492> home particularly hard yesterday. Compaq Computer <ei493>nose-dived</ei493> $8.625 a share, to $100, and <ei495>pulled</ei495> other technology issues lower after <ei496>reporting</ei496> lower-than-expected earnings after the stock market <ei498>closed</ei498> Wednesday. Later yesterday, the nation's major auto makers <ei499>added</ei499> to the gloom when they each <ei500>reported</ei500> their core auto operations were net losers in the third quarter. The less-than-robust third-quarter results came amid renewed concern about the volatility of stock prices and the role of computer-aided program trading. Taken together, the worries <ei507>prompted</ei507> a broad sell-off of stocks. The number of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange that <ei509>fell</ei509> in price yesterday exceeded 1,000, a key measure of underlying sentiment among technical analysts. Although the government <ei510>said</ei510> the economy <ei511>grew</ei511> an estimated 2.5% in the third quarter, in line with expectations, analysts are increasingly predicting much more sluggish growth — and therefore more corporate earnings disappointments — for the fourth quarter. "There are a lot more downward revisions of earnings forecasts than upward revisions," <ei519>said</ei519> Abby Joseph Cohen, a market strategist at Drexel Burnham Lambert. "People are <ei520>questioning</ei520> corporate profits as a pillar of support for the equity market." The bond market was unmoved by the economic statistics. While bond investors would have preferred growth to be a little slower, they were <ei524>cheered</ei524> by inflation measures in the data that showed prices <ei525>rising</ei525> at a modest annual rate of 2.9%. That is another small encouragement for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in coming weeks, they <ei528>reasoned</ei528>. 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matres | wsj_0533 | {
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} | extended their offers to acquire the Toronto-based vaccine manufacturer Friday. Institut Merieux S.A., which offered 942 million Canadian dollars (US$801.2 million), or C$37 a share for Connaught, said it would extend its bid, due to expire last Thursday, to Nov. 6. A C$30-a-share bid by Ciba-Geigy Ltd., a pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, and California-based Chiron Corp., a bioresearch concern, was extended to Nov. 16. It had been due to expire Friday evening. Merieux previously said it would ensure its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeover. Merieux, a vaccine and bioresearch firm based in Lyon, France, is controlled 50.1% by state-owned Rhone Poulenc S.A. The Canadian government previously said Merieux's bid didn't offer enough "net benefit" to Canada to be approved, and gave Merieux until mid-November to submit additional information. Merieux officials said last week that they are "highly confident" the offer will be approved once it submits details of its proposed investments to federal regulators. Both offers are conditional on regulatory approvals and enough shares being tendered to give the bidders a majority of Connaught's shares outstanding. Institut Merieux, which already holds a 12.5% stake in Connaught, said that at the close of business Thursday, 5,745,188 shares of Connaught and C$44.3 million face amount of debentures, convertible into 1,826,596 common shares, had been tendered to its offer. At the close of business Thursday, Ciba-Geigy and Chiron said 11,580 common shares had been tendered to their offer. At last report, Connaught had 21.8 million shares outstanding. Separately, the Ontario Supreme Court said it will postpone indefinitely a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid. In a statement prepared by lawyers for the university and Connaught, the parties said they agreed that as a result of reaching a C$415 million research accord, "It is unnecessary that there be a judgment on the merits {of the case} at this time." Lawyers for the two sides weren't immediately available for comment. The university had sought an injunction blocking Connaught's board from recommending or supporting an offer for the company by Merieux. | <ei478>extended</ei478> their offers to acquire the Toronto-based vaccine manufacturer Friday. Institut Merieux S.A., which <ei481>offered</ei481> 942 million Canadian dollars (US$801.2 million), or C$37 a share for Connaught, <ei482>said</ei482> it would extend its bid, due to <ei486>expire</ei486> last Thursday, to Nov. 6. A C$30-a-share bid by Ciba-Geigy Ltd., a pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, and California-based Chiron Corp., a bioresearch concern, was <ei488>extended</ei488> to Nov. 16. It had been due to <ei490>expire</ei490> Friday evening. Merieux previously <ei491>said</ei491> it would ensure its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeover. Merieux, a vaccine and bioresearch firm based in Lyon, France, is controlled 50.1% by state-owned Rhone Poulenc S.A. The Canadian government previously <ei498>said</ei498> Merieux's bid didn't offer enough "net benefit" to Canada to be approved, and <ei501>gave</ei501> Merieux until mid-November to submit additional information. Merieux officials <ei503>said</ei503> last week that they are "highly confident" the offer will be approved once it submits details of its proposed investments to federal regulators. Both offers are conditional on regulatory approvals and enough shares being tendered to give the bidders a majority of Connaught's shares outstanding. 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} | JERUSALEM (AP)_ Top Israeli officials sent strong new signals Sunday that Israel wants to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where a costly war of attrition has been steadily claiming soldiers' lives. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday that Israel was willing to withdraw from southern Lebanon provided Israel's northern frontier could be secured. ``If the Lebanese government will cooperate with us in making appropriate security arrangements in south Lebanon, we will be happy to get out of Lebanon in the framework of implementation of U.N. Resolution 425,'' Netanyahu told his ministers. That 1978 resolution calls for Israel's unconditional withdrawal from the self-declared security zone it occupies in south Lebanon, and for the deployment of the Lebanese army and U.N. forces to ensure security along the Lebanese-Israeli border. On Friday, Netanyahu said he had ``no qualms'' about implementing the U.N. resolution, as long as Israel had ``the necessary security safeguards.'' Cabinet minister Michael Eitan said Sunday that Netanyahu's remarks marked a substantive change in Israel's position. ``We will defend our north from the international border,'' said Eitan, the science minister. ``No one wants to stay in Lebanon; thus we think it better to withdraw.'' Uri Lubrani, Israel's top official for Lebanon affairs, also suggested Israel was willing to modify its political goals in Lebanon. ``This is a new thing...it means that we are willing to talk today _ full stop _ about security,'' Lubrani told Israel's Channel One. ``We have gotten off the issue of peace, off the issue of normalization.'' As the death toll in Lebanon has mounted, the Israeli government has been faced with a growing grassroots movement calling for Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon. Since 1985, when the Israelis created a security buffer zone in southern Lebanon, nearly 200 Israeli soldiers have been killed fighting Hezbollah and other guerrillas. Last week, Hezbollah fighters killed three Israeli soldiers and seriously wounded six others. The Israelis suffered a record 39 deaths in southern Lebanon last year. In addition, 73 soldiers were killed en route to Lebanon when two military helicopters crashed last February. The Maariv newspaper said Sunday that Netanyahu's comments last week were in response to signals from Syria that it wants to renew the long-stalled peace talks between the two countries. The newspaper, quoting ``secret reports,'' said Syria had indicated its interest in resuming talks in remarks made last week by the Syrian ambassador to Washington, Walid Mualem, in a lecture to a closed forum in Baltimore. Two top aides to Netanyahu, political adviser Uzi Arad and Cabinet Secretary Danny Naveh, left for Europe on Sunday, apparently to investigate the Syrian issue, the newspaper said. Israel-Syrian talks have been cut off for nearly two years. Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai was the first senior Israeli official to refer to U.N. resolution 425 in a speech six weeks ago, saying at the time he was willing to withdraw troops in exchange for guarantees that Israel would not be attacked. | JERUSALEM (AP)_ Top Israeli officials <ei1998>sent</ei1998> strong new signals Sunday that Israel wants to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where a costly war of attrition has been steadily <ei2003>claiming</ei2003> soldiers' lives. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <ei2004>told</ei2004> his Cabinet on Sunday that Israel was willing to withdraw from southern Lebanon provided Israel's northern frontier could be secured. ``If the Lebanese government will cooperate with us in making appropriate security arrangements in south Lebanon, we will be happy to get out of Lebanon in the framework of implementation of U.N. Resolution 425,'' Netanyahu <ei2011>told</ei2011> his ministers. That 1978 resolution calls for Israel's unconditional withdrawal from the self-declared security zone it <ei2015>occupies</ei2015> in south Lebanon, and for the deployment of the Lebanese army and U.N. forces to ensure security along the Lebanese-Israeli border. On Friday, Netanyahu <ei2018>said</ei2018> he <ei2019>had</ei2019> ``no qualms'' about implementing the U.N. resolution, as long as Israel <ei2021>had</ei2021> ``the necessary security safeguards.'' 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The earnings drop at GM Hughes Electronics is a sign of tough times at both the defense operations of Hughes Aircraft Co. and GM's North American automotive operations, which are a primary customer for the Delco Electronics Corp. side of the GM Hughes unit. Profit at the unit fell to $110.6 million, or 37 cents a share, from $142.4 million, or 45 cents a share, largely because of a $24 million one-time charge associated with Hughes's previously announced plan to reduce employment by at least 6,000 people by year end. Even excluding the charge, however, net income fell 5%. In addition, GM's North American vehicle production fell 8.4% from a year ago, which hurt Delco Electronics' earnings, a company spokesman said. That decline was reflected in revenue for the GM Hughes unit, which edged down to $2.58 billion from $2.63 billion. In the nine months, GM Hughes net income fell 6.6% to $486.6 million, or $1.48 a share, from $521 million, or $1.58 a share. Revenue rose 3.5% to $8.47 billion from $8.18 billion. At GMAC, net income dropped 3.1% to $234.5 million from $241.9 million. The finance unit attributed the decline to higher borrowing costs compared with a year earlier. GMAC said its automotive financing and leasing business rose 35% in the U.S., largely because of dealer and customer incentives used to boost sales. GMAC profits are combined with earnings from the rest of GM's operations and attributed to the company's traditional common stock. In the first nine months, GMAC's earnings fell 8% to $859.5 million from $930.2 million. At EDS, third-quarter profit jumped 16% to a record $110.9 million, or 93 cents a share, from $95.9 million, or 79 cents a share. Revenue rose 12% to $1.37 billion from $1.22 billion. In the nine months, EDS earned $315.8 million, or $2.62 a share, up 13% from $280.7 million, or $2.30 a share. Revenue rose 14% to $4.03 billion from $3.54 billion. 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"Bugs like this are just a normal part of product development," said Richard Archuleta, director of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s advanced systems development. Hewlett announced last week that it planned to ship a computer based on the 486 chip early next year. "These bugs don't affect our schedule at all," he said. Likewise, AST Research Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said the bugs won't delay their development of 486-based machines. "We haven't modified our schedules in any way," said a Sun spokesman. To switch to another vendor's chips, "would definitely not be an option," he said. Nonetheless, concern about the chip may have been responsible for a decline of 87.5 cents in Intel's stock to $32 a share yesterday in over-the-counter trading, on a volume of 3,609,800 shares, and partly responsible for a drop in Compaq's stock in New York Stock Exchange composite trading on Wednesday. Yesterday, Compaq plunged further, closing at $100 a share, down $8.625 a share, on a volume of 2,633,700 shares. Most of Compaq's decline is being attributed to a third-quarter earnings report that came in at the low end of analysts' expectations. Intel said it had corrected the problems and would start producing bug-free chips next week. "We should not be seeing any more," said Bill Rash, Intel's director for the 486 chip. What's more, the bugs only emerge in esoteric applications such as computer-aided design and scientific calculations, he said, and then very seldom. "These errata do not affect business programs," he said. The bugs will cause problems in "specific and rare circumstances that will not occur in typical applications" such as word processing and spreadsheets, said Michael Slater, editor of the Microprocessor Report, an industry newsletter. Sun, Hewlett-Packard and others say Intel isn't wholly to blame for the problem. The real culprits, they said, are computer makers such as IBM that have jumped the gun to unveil 486-based products. "The reason this is getting so much visibility is that some started shipping and announced early availability," said Hewlett-Packard's Mr. Archuleta. "You can do that but you're taking a risk. Those companies are paying the price for taking the risk." In late September, IBM began shipping a plug-in card that converts its PS/2 model 70-A21 from an 80386 machine to an 80486 machine. An IBM spokeswoman said the company told customers Monday about the bugs and temporarily stopped shipping the product. IBM has no plans to recall its add-on cards, the spokeswoman said, and could probably circumvent the bugs without long product delays. "We don't look at this as a major problem for us," she said. Compaq, which said it discovered the bugs, still plans to announce new 486 products on November 6. Because of the glitch, however, the company said it doesn't know when its machine will be commercially available. That's a break from Compaq tradition, because the company doesn't announce products until they're actually at the dealers. The problem is being ballyhooed, experts say, because the 486 is Intel's future flagship. Intel's microprocessors are the chips of choice in many of today's personal computers and the 80486 microprocessor is the spearhead of the company's bid to guard that spot in the next generation of machines. "Although these sorts of bugs are not at all uncommon, the 486 is an extremely high-profile product," said Mr. Slater, the newsletter editor. Intel's 80486 chip is the Corvette of Intel's microprocessors, a super-fast, super-expensive chip that only the most power-hungry computer users are likely to buy for at least several years. Unveiled last April, the chip crams 1.2 million transistors on a sliver of silicon, more than four times as many as on Intel's earlier model, 80386. Intel clocks the chip's speed at 15 million instructions per second, or MIPS. That's four times as fast as the 386. Machines using the 486 are expected to challenge higher-priced workstations and minicomputers in applications such as so-called servers, which connect groups of computers together, and in computer-aided design. But while the chip's speed in processing power is dazzling, its real strength lies in its software inheritance. The 486 is the descendant of a long series of Intel chips that began dominating the market ever since IBM picked the 16-bit 8088 chip for its first personal computer. (A 16-bit microprocessor processes 16 pieces of data at a time and is slower than newer, 32-bit chips.) Since then, Intel has cornered a large part of the market with successive generations of 16-bit and 32-bit chips, all of which can run software written for previous models. That's what will keep computer makers coming in spite of the irritation of bugs. Large personal computer makers and many makers of engineering workstations are developing 486-based machines, which are expected to reach the market early next year. Of the large computer makers, only Apple Computer Co. bases its machines on Motorola chips instead. "The 486 is going to have a big impact on the industry," said Hewlett-Packard's Mr. Archuleta. "It's going to be the leading-edge technology in personal computers for the next few years. This bug is not going to have any effect on that at all." 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In their joint statement, released by the Kremlin, the two leaders also pledged to consult each other regularly on their approaches to relations with NATO and, in particular, their actions within the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program. Last year, Russian officials assailed Ukraine for holding joint naval exercises with NATO in the Black Sea – an area Moscow considers its own turf. Kuchma has said repeatedly that Ukraine would remain neutral for the foreseeable future. Yeltsin and Kuchma also called for developing the stagnant relations between the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a loose coalition of former Soviet republics. In the past, Russia has often claimed that Ukraine was undermining efforts at closer cooperation within the CIS. A major goal of Kuchma's four-day state visit was the signing of a 10-year economic program aimed at doubling the two nations' trade turnover, which fell to $14 billion last year, down $2.5 billion from 1996. The two presidents on Friday signed the plan, which calls for cooperation in the metallurgy, fuel, energy, aircraft building, missile, space, and chemical industries. A major project is joint manufacturing of An-70 cargo planes, the Kremlin statement said. The program also calls for coordination of economic reforms and joint improvement of social programs in the two countries, where many people have become impoverished during the chaotic post-Soviet transition to capitalism. Kuchma also planned to visit Russian gas giant Gazprom, most likely to discuss Ukraine's $1.2 billion debt to the company. | MOSCOW (AP)_ Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Boris Yeltsin of Russia <ei2306>signed</ei2306> an economic cooperation plan Friday, and Yeltsin <ei2307>claimed</ei2307> they <ei2308>resolved</ei2308> even more pressing problems. Russia and Ukraine share similar cultures and languages, and Ukraine was <ei2309>ruled</ei2309> from Moscow for centuries. 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} | "So far, the offensive is progressing with dramatic success," said a buoyant Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. forces. Similarly, while cautioning about the uncertainty of early battle reports, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said late yesterday that "the operation has been very successful." Amid reports that thousands of Iraqi soldiers had surrendered, administration aides were also upbeat in private, with one even talking of victory within a week. But even continued military success carries political and diplomatic risks for President Bush and the U.S. The allied rejection of the last-minute Soviet-led diplomatic effort to avoid the ground war enabled Mr. Bush to seize the initiative from an Iraq seemingly bent on dictating peace terms. But it has offended some, especially in Arab countries, who now believe that Mr. Bush's real objectives are the demise of Saddam Hussein and the destruction of the Iraqi military, not just the liberation of Kuwait. "Why have a war?" asked Abdul Latif Shekar, a customs officer in Egypt, a country participating in the attack on Iraqi troops. "I think the Gorbachev plan was a good one. Iraq was ready to withdraw." Now, he says, "it looks like the West just wants to destroy Iraq." Despite the early indications of success, the allied forces could still suffer greater casualties and become bogged down militarily, especially when they encounter the tough Republican Guard, which is entrenched along the Iraq-Kuwait border. If so, and if it appears that the American goal actually is to destroy the Iraqi regime even at the cost of badly hurting Iraqi society, "the lingering cost of that could be high," worries former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. But, he notes, "If everything crumbles totally, that won't be such a problem." American officials staunchly disavow any interest in driving through Iraq toward Baghdad, either in pursuit of Saddam Hussein himself or to set up some American-controlled government inside Iraq. The Americans say their battle plans call for operating against forces inside Iraq as far north as the city of Basra, about 30 miles north of Kuwait, but say there isn't any plan to drive beyond that. Indeed, French President Francois Mitterrand said yesterday that some allied forces are crossing Iraqi territory as part of a "pincer" movement to trap the soldiers occupying Kuwait, but insisted, "The purpose isn't to invade Iraqi territory, that's not the aim, that isn't the mandate." Nevertheless, American officials over the weekend became more open in declaring that by destroying Saddam Hussein's military machine they hope to destroy his regime -- a goal likely to be supported by most Americans. In a pre-attack message, Lt. Gen. 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American war planners have long assumed that the early stage of the ground attack, in which American forces would use their speed to sweep around Iraqi defenses and their strength to punch through the relatively weak Iraqi front line, would be the easiest part. Despite these early successes, the mere fact that a ground campaign has begun almost guarantees that the Bush administration will face fresh problems growing out of the military situation. There are likely to be additional American prisoners of war taken, and there are signs that President Hussein is taking Kuwaiti hostages. U.S. and Kuwaiti officials say there are reports that large numbers of civilians from Kuwait City are being rounded up and held by Iraqi troops, apparently either for use as human shields or for use later in bargaining once the war is over. President Bush's political argument for going to a ground war has been strengthened by the growing stream of reports of wanton Iraqi destruction inside Kuwait. U.S. officials say that hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells now may have been set afire. And Robert Gates, Mr. Bush's deputy national security adviser, asserted in an interview on the Cable News Network that Iraqi troops have set fire to "large sections" of Kuwait City. Mr. Bush and his aides were leaning toward a military conclusion of the crisis even before the latest reports of Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait came to light. The president and his top aides tentatively decided on Feb. 11 that a ground war would be necessary. The decision was made after Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, returned from a visit with military commanders in Saudi Arabia, administration officials say. Then, a week or so ago, Gen. Schwarzkopf secretly picked Saturday night as the optimal time to start the offensive. The date was unaffected by the last-ditch Soviet peace initiative. The real problem with the Soviet proposals, U.S. officials now say, was that they all would have required lifting economic sanctions against Iraq. The Bush administration considers the sanctions essential to keeping Saddam Hussein under control should he survive the war. Mr. Bush forestalled further diplomatic maneuvering by issuing an ultimatum on behalf of the allies demanding that Iraq withdraw within a week, starting at noon Saturday. Administration aides said that the idea of the ultimatum was Gen. Powell's. He argued that setting an explicit deadline for Saddam Hussein to break would, when it was broken, give the U.S. military a clear green light to proceed. In setting out his final challenge to Saddam Hussein, Mr. Bush continued the intensive personal diplomacy he began after the invasion last August. After cabling world leaders about his intention to give Saddam Hussein a final deadline to exit Kuwait, he offered him a week to withdraw fully, instead of the four days he originally considered, because of objections from some European partners that four days seemed punitive and unrealistic. And when he and President Gorbachev spoke about the decision in a talk lasting nearly an hour, the President took pains to listen to what his counterpart had to say, although he already had decided that the Soviet alternative to the allied deadline was unacceptable. Finally, when Iraq failed to respond to the U.S. ultimatum, Mr. Bush let the ground offensive begin as previously planned Saturday night. The attack was lightning quick, as allied forces punched through tall sand berms on the border and pushed forward into Iraq and Kuwait. U.S. Marines were said to have breached troublesome mine fields along the Iraqi lines but Pentagon officials said no amphibious assault on Kuwait's beaches had begun. Long columns of Iraqi prisoners of war could be seen trudging through the desert toward the allied rear. U.S. commanders said 5,500 Iraqi prisoners were taken in the first hours of the ground war, though some military officials later said the total may have climbed above 8,000. The U.S. hopes its troops will drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait quickly, leaving much of Iraq's offensive military equipment destroyed or abandoned in Kuwait. It expects that tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers will surrender to the U.S. and its allies over the next few days. If the allies succeed, Saddam Hussein will have plunged his country first into a fruitless eight-year war against Iran and then into a humiliating war against the U.S. and the allies to defend his conquest of Kuwait, leaving much of his country's military establishment and modern infrastructure in ruins. Meanwhile, the U.S. hopes, economic sanctions and an international arms embargo will remain in effect until Iraq pays war reparations to Kuwait to cover war damages. That would undermine any chances of rebuilding either Iraq or its armed forces in short order as long as Saddam Hussein remains in power. The American hope is that someone from within Iraq, perhaps from the army's professional ranks, will step forward and push Saddam Hussein aside so that the country can begin recovering from the disaster. Outside analysts think Saddam Hussein's position is indeed precarious. "I think frankly Saddam is finished, no matter what happens," says Christine Helms, a Middle East scholar who has written extensively about Iraq. "These guys simply don't retire to condos over the Euphrates." Despite the lack of any obvious successors, the Iraqi leader's internal power base appeared to be narrowing even before the war began. Some analysts say he appeared to be relying on a smaller and smaller circle of close advisers and relatives. If that's true, the narrowing of his support would make it easier for someone to push him aside from within. Yet, paradoxically, the perception that the U.S. wants to destroy Iraq may increase Saddam Hussein's support within the Iraqi military. And the U.S. now will face sharper questions in the Arab world since it didn't back the peace proposals worked out in Moscow. "We looked to the United States, we expected you to have the moral edge," says Nasser Tahboub, a Jerusalem-born Jordanian who has an American wife and a doctorate in political science from Duke University. "Now we see that edge eroded. For me, it is a great tragedy. For the first time in history, the U.S. has gone to war with an Arab and Muslim nation, and we know a peaceful solution was in reach." | "So far, the offensive is progressing with dramatic success," <ei1191>said</ei1191> a buoyant Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. forces. Similarly, while cautioning about the uncertainty of early battle reports, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater <ei1195>said</ei1195> late yesterday that "the operation has been very successful." Amid reports that thousands of Iraqi soldiers had <ei1198>surrendered</ei1198>, administration aides were also upbeat in private, with one even <ei1199>talking</ei1199> of victory within a week. But even continued military success carries political and diplomatic risks for President Bush and the U.S. The allied rejection of the last-minute Soviet-led diplomatic effort to avoid the ground war <ei1208>enabled</ei1208> Mr. Bush to <ei1209>seize</ei1209> the initiative from an Iraq seemingly bent on dictating peace terms. But it has <ei1211>offended</ei1211> some, especially in Arab countries, who now <ei1212>believe</ei1212> that Mr. Bush's real objectives are the demise of Saddam Hussein and the destruction of the Iraqi military, not just the liberation of Kuwait. "Why have a war?" <ei1218>asked</ei1218> Abdul Latif Shekar, a customs officer in Egypt, a country <ei1219>participating</ei1219> in the attack on Iraqi troops. "I <ei1221>think</ei1221> the Gorbachev plan was a good one. Iraq was ready to withdraw." Now, he <ei1223>says</ei1223>, "it looks like the West just wants to destroy Iraq." Despite the early indications of success, the allied forces could still suffer greater casualties and <ei1230>become</ei1230> bogged down militarily, especially when they <ei1232>encounter</ei1232> the tough Republican Guard, which is <ei1233>entrenched</ei1233> along the Iraq-Kuwait border. If so, and if it appears that the American goal actually is to destroy the Iraqi regime even at the cost of badly hurting Iraqi society, "the lingering cost of that could be high," <ei1239>worries</ei1239> former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. But, he <ei1240>notes</ei1240>, "If everything crumbles totally, that won't be such a problem." American officials staunchly disavow any interest in driving through Iraq toward Baghdad, either in pursuit of Saddam Hussein himself or to set up some American-controlled government inside Iraq. The Americans <ei1246>say</ei1246> their battle plans <ei1247>call</ei1247> for operating against forces inside Iraq as far north as the city of Basra, about 30 miles north of Kuwait, but say there isn't any plan to drive beyond that. Indeed, French President Francois Mitterrand <ei1252>said</ei1252> yesterday that some allied forces are <ei1253>crossing</ei1253> Iraqi territory as part of a "pincer" movement to trap the soldiers occupying Kuwait, but <ei1257>insisted</ei1257>, "The purpose isn't to invade Iraqi territory, that's not the aim, that isn't the mandate." Nevertheless, American officials over the weekend <ei1262>became</ei1262> more open in <ei1264>declaring</ei1264> that by destroying Saddam Hussein's military machine they hope to destroy his regime -- a goal likely to be supported by most Americans. In a pre-attack message, Lt. Gen. Walter Boomer, the top Marine in the Persian Gulf, <ei1272>told</ei1272> U.S. Marines that their goal is to "restore {Kuwait} to its citizens." He <ei1275>went</ei1275> on to <ei1276>add</ei1276> that "in so doing you not only return a nation to its people, but you will destroy the war machine of a ruthless dictator." Secretary of State James Baker <ei1280>said</ei1280> on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley" that the series of United Nations resolutions <ei1282>condemning</ei1282> Iraq's invasion of Kuwait "<ei1284>imply</ei1284> that the restoration of peace and stability in the Gulf would be a heck of a lot easier if he and that leadership were not in power in Iraq." Of course, it is still far too early to assume that the military situation on the ground will stay as smooth for allied forces as it <ei1293>appears</ei1293> to have been so far. Iraq still <ei1295>has</ei1295> the potential to cause significant problems by using forces and weapons that don't yet seem fully engaged. For one thing, Iraq still apparently hasn't <ei1301>unleashed</ei1301> its stockpile of chemical weapons. Gen. Schwarzkopf <ei1302>said</ei1302> that some early reports that chemical weapons were <ei1304>used</ei1304> against allied troops <ei1305>turned</ei1305> out to be "bogus." Iraq is <ei1306>believed</ei1306> to have the ability to deliver chemical weapons in artillery shells or, perhaps, atop Soviet-made Frog-7 missiles. Perhaps more important, it appears that allied troops haven't yet fully engaged Iraq's vaunted Republican Guard, which has been <ei1311>sitting</ei1311> just north of the Iraq-Kuwait border and is <ei1312>considered</ei1312> the most potent element in the Iraqi defense. It <ei1314>remains</ei1314> to be seen how much damage the allied air campaign was able to <ei1319>inflict</ei1319> on the Guard, and whether President Hussein will commit his most valued troops to a fight-to-the-death finish. Certainly Saddam Hussein <ei1322>continues</ei1322> to <ei1323>implore</ei1323> his country to fight on. "Fight them," he <ei1326>urged</ei1326> Iraqis in a radio address. "All Iraqis, fight them with all the power you have, and all struggle for everything." American war planners have long <ei1331>assumed</ei1331> that the early stage of the ground attack, in which American forces would use their speed to sweep around Iraqi defenses and their strength to punch through the relatively weak Iraqi front line, would be the easiest part. Despite these early successes, the mere fact that a ground campaign has <ei1337>begun</ei1337> almost guarantees that the Bush administration will face fresh problems growing out of the military situation. There are likely to be additional American prisoners of war taken, and there are signs that President Hussein is <ei1344>taking</ei1344> Kuwaiti hostages. U.S. and Kuwaiti officials <ei1345>say</ei1345> there are reports that large numbers of civilians from Kuwait City are being rounded up and <ei1348>held</ei1348> by Iraqi troops, apparently either for use as human shields or for use later in bargaining once the war is over. President Bush's political argument for going to a ground war has been <ei1356>strengthened</ei1356> by the growing stream of reports of wanton Iraqi destruction inside Kuwait. U.S. officials <ei1359>say</ei1359> that hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells now may have been set afire. And Robert Gates, Mr. Bush's deputy national security adviser, <ei1362>asserted</ei1362> in an interview on the Cable News Network that Iraqi troops have <ei1364>set</ei1364> fire to "large sections" of Kuwait City. Mr. Bush and his aides were <ei1366>leaning</ei1366> toward a military conclusion of the crisis even before the latest reports of Iraqi atrocities in Kuwait <ei1371>came</ei1371> to light. The president and his top aides tentatively <ei1372>decided</ei1372> on Feb. 11 that a ground war would be necessary. The decision was <ei1376>made</ei1376> after Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, <ei1377>returned</ei1377> from a visit with military commanders in Saudi Arabia, administration officials <ei1379>say</ei1379>. Then, a week or so ago, Gen. Schwarzkopf secretly <ei1380>picked</ei1380> Saturday night as the optimal time to start the offensive. The date was unaffected by the last-ditch Soviet peace initiative. The real problem with the Soviet proposals, U.S. officials now <ei1387>say</ei1387>, was that they all would have required lifting economic sanctions against Iraq. The Bush administration <ei1391>considers</ei1391> the sanctions essential to keeping Saddam Hussein under control should he survive the war. Mr. Bush <ei1397>forestalled</ei1397> further diplomatic maneuvering by <ei1399>issuing</ei1399> an ultimatum on behalf of the allies demanding that Iraq withdraw within a week, starting at noon Saturday. Administration aides <ei1404>said</ei1404> that the idea of the ultimatum was Gen. Powell's. He <ei1406>argued</ei1406> that setting an explicit deadline for Saddam Hussein to break would, when it was broken, give the U.S. military a clear green light to proceed. In <ei1412>setting</ei1412> out his final challenge to Saddam Hussein, Mr. Bush <ei1414>continued</ei1414> the intensive personal diplomacy he <ei1416>began</ei1416> after the invasion last August. After <ei1418>cabling</ei1418> world leaders about his intention to give Saddam Hussein a final deadline to exit Kuwait, he <ei1422>offered</ei1422> him a week to <ei1423>withdraw</ei1423> fully, instead of the four days he originally <ei1424>considered</ei1424>, because of objections from some European partners that four days seemed punitive and unrealistic. And when he and President Gorbachev <ei1427>spoke</ei1427> about the decision in a talk lasting nearly an hour, the President <ei1430>took</ei1430> pains to <ei1432>listen</ei1432> to what his counterpart had to <ei1434>say</ei1434>, although he already had <ei1435>decided</ei1435> that the Soviet alternative to the allied deadline was unacceptable. Finally, when Iraq <ei1437>failed</ei1437> to respond to the U.S. ultimatum, Mr. Bush <ei1440>let</ei1440> the ground offensive <ei1442>begin</ei1442> as previously <ei1443>planned</ei1443> Saturday night. The attack was lightning quick, as allied forces <ei1445>punched</ei1445> through tall sand berms on the border and <ei1446>pushed</ei1446> forward into Iraq and Kuwait. U.S. Marines were <ei1447>said</ei1447> to have <ei1448>breached</ei1448> troublesome mine fields along the Iraqi lines but Pentagon officials <ei1449>said</ei1449> no amphibious assault on Kuwait's beaches had begun. Long columns of Iraqi prisoners of war could be <ei1452>seen</ei1452> <ei1453>trudging</ei1453> through the desert toward the allied rear. U.S. commanders <ei1454>said</ei1454> 5,500 Iraqi prisoners were <ei1455>taken</ei1455> in the first hours of the ground war, though some military officials later <ei1457>said</ei1457> the total may have climbed above 8,000. The U.S. <ei1459>hopes</ei1459> its troops will drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait quickly, leaving much of Iraq's offensive military equipment destroyed or abandoned in Kuwait. It expects that tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers will surrender to the U.S. and its allies over the next few days. If the allies succeed, Saddam Hussein will have plunged his country first into a fruitless eight-year war against Iran and then into a humiliating war against the U.S. and the allies to defend his conquest of Kuwait, leaving much of his country's military establishment and modern infrastructure in ruins. Meanwhile, the U.S. hopes, economic sanctions and an international arms embargo will remain in effect until Iraq pays war reparations to Kuwait to cover war damages. That would undermine any chances of rebuilding either Iraq or its armed forces in short order as long as Saddam Hussein remains in power. The American hope is that someone from within Iraq, perhaps from the army's professional ranks, will step forward and push Saddam Hussein aside so that the country can begin recovering from the disaster. Outside analysts think Saddam Hussein's position is indeed precarious. "I think frankly Saddam is <ei1486>finished</ei1486>, no matter what <ei1487>happens</ei1487>," <ei1488>says</ei1488> Christine Helms, a Middle East scholar who has <ei1489>written</ei1489> extensively about Iraq. "These guys simply don't retire to condos over the Euphrates." Despite the lack of any obvious successors, the Iraqi leader's internal power base <ei1491>appeared</ei1491> to be narrowing even before the war <ei1494>began</ei1494>. Some analysts <ei1495>say</ei1495> he <ei1496>appeared</ei1496> to be <ei1497>relying</ei1497> on a smaller and smaller circle of close advisers and relatives. If that's true, the narrowing of his support would make it easier for someone to push him aside from within. Yet, paradoxically, the perception that the U.S. wants to destroy Iraq may increase Saddam Hussein's support within the Iraqi military. 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The dividend increase was Du Pont's second this year, an affirmation of statements by top executives that they intend to increase rewards to shareholders. "We haven't benefited the shareholder as much as we need to," said Edgar Woolard Jr., Du Pont's chairman and chief executive officer, in an interview several months before he assumed his current position in April. The largest beneficiary will be Seagram Co., which owns about 23% of Du Pont. A spokesman for Seagram, the Montreal wine and spirits concern controlled by the Bronfman family, said the company will report additional pretax profit of about $33 million a year because of the additional Du Pont dividends. Du Pont also announced plans for a 3-for-1 stock split, although the initial higher dividend will be paid on pre-split shares. Du Pont's stock rose $2.50 a share to close at $117.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. Seagram closed at $84.75, up 12.5 cents a share in Big Board trading. Leading the gains for Du Pont in the latest quarter was its industrial products segment, where profit soared to $155 million from $99 million a year earlier. The company benefited from continued strong demand and higher selling prices for titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paints, paper and plastics. James Fallon, a New Providence, N.J., marketing consultant to the chemicals industry, says Du Pont still holds an edge in making the pigment because the company was "first in with the technology" to lower costs. He said Du Pont holds about 23% of the world-wide market, the largest single share, at a time when growing uses for the pigment have kept it in tight supply, although others are now adding low-cost production capacity. Profit climbed to $98 million from $71 million in the petroleum segment, as Du Pont's Conoco Inc. oil company was helped by crude oil prices higher than a year ago and by higher natural gas prices and volume. In the diversified businesses segment, which includes herbicides, profit grew to $64 million from $27 million. A spokesman said herbicide use in some areas of the U.S. was delayed earlier in the year by heavy rains, thus increasing sales in the third quarter. In the fibers segment, profit rose to $180 million from $155 million, a gain Du Pont attributed to higher demand in the U.S. for most textile products. Two segments posted lower earnings for the quarter. Profit from coal fell to $41 million from $58 million, partly because of a miners' strike. And profit from polymers dropped to $107 million from $122 million amid what Du Pont called lower demand and selling prices in certain packaging and industrial markets. For the nine months, Du Pont earned $2 billion, or $8.46 a share, up 18% from $1.69 billion, or $7.03 a share, a year earlier. Sales increased 10% to $26.54 billion from $24.05 billion. The increased dividend will be paid Dec. 14 to holders of record Nov. 15. The stock split, which is subject to shareholder approval, would be paid on a still unspecified date in January to holders of record Dec. 21. | Du Pont Co. <ei1990>reported</ei1990> that third-quarter profit <ei1991>grew</ei1991> a robust 19% from a year ago on the strength of the company's operations in various chemicals and fibers, and in petroleum. Du Pont also <ei1993>raised</ei1993> its quarterly dividend to $1.20 a share from $1.05, a change that will <ei1997>increase</ei1997> the annualized payout to shareholders by some $140 million. Du Pont, unlike companies <ei1998>hurt</ei1998> badly by sharp price declines for basic chemicals and plastics, is <ei2000>benefiting</ei2000> from its broad range of businesses. The profit gain was <ei2002>made</ei2002> despite a weakening in the housing market, for which the company is a supplier, and a strengthening in the dollar, which <ei2005>lowers</ei2005> the value of overseas earnings when they are translated into dollars. The Wilmington, Del., company <ei2006>reported</ei2006> net income of $547 million, or $2.36 a share, which was in line with Wall Street estimates. In the year-earlier period, the company <ei2009>earned</ei2009> $461 million, or $1.91 a share. Sales in the latest quarter were $8.59 billion, up 9.4% from $7.85 billion. The dividend increase was Du Pont's second this year, an affirmation of statements by top executives that they intend to increase rewards to shareholders. "We haven't benefited the shareholder as much as we <ei2017>need</ei2017> to," <ei2018>said</ei2018> Edgar Woolard Jr., Du Pont's chairman and chief executive officer, in an interview several months before he <ei2020>assumed</ei2020> his current position in April. The largest beneficiary will be Seagram Co., which owns about 23% of Du Pont. A spokesman for Seagram, the Montreal wine and spirits concern controlled by the Bronfman family, <ei2022>said</ei2022> the company will <ei2023>report</ei2023> additional pretax profit of about $33 million a year because of the additional Du Pont dividends. Du Pont also <ei2025>announced</ei2025> plans for a 3-for-1 stock split, although the initial higher dividend will be <ei2028>paid</ei2028> on pre-split shares. Du Pont's stock <ei2029>rose</ei2029> $2.50 a share to <ei2030>close</ei2030> at $117.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. Seagram <ei2032>closed</ei2032> at $84.75, up 12.5 cents a share in Big Board trading. <ei2034>Leading</ei2034> the gains for Du Pont in the latest quarter was its industrial products segment, where profit <ei2035>soared</ei2035> to $155 million from $99 million a year earlier. 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To mollify shareholders concerned about the long-term value of the company under the BellSouth-LIN agreement, BellSouth also agreed to pay as much as $10 a share, or $540 million, if, after five years, the trading value of the new cellular company isn't as high as the value that shareholders would have realized from the McCaw offer. "We're very pleased with the new deal. We didn't expect BellSouth to be so responsive," said Frederick A. Moran, president of Moran Asset Management Inc., which holds 500,000 LIN shares. BellSouth's "back-end protection was flawed previously. We think this is a superior deal to McCaw's. We're surprised. We didn't think a sleeping giant mentality would be willing to take on dilution." But Kenneth Leon, a telecommunications analyst with Bear, Stearns & Co., finds the BellSouth proposal still flawed because the company doesn't have to wait five years to begin buying more LIN shares. "How many shares will be around in 1995?" he asked. "There's nothing preventing BellSouth from buying up shares in the meanwhile." BellSouth's revised proposal surprised many industry analysts, especially because of the company's willingness to accept some dilution of future earnings. William O. McCoy, president of the company's BellSouth Enterprises Inc. unit, said the revised agreement with LIN would dilute BellSouth earnings by about 9% in both 1990 and 1991 and by significantly less thereafter. Indeed, BellSouth's cellular operations were among the first in the country to become profitable. For 1988, BellSouth earned $1.7 billion, or $3.51 a share, on revenue of $13.6 billion. Analysts were predicting 1990 BellSouth earnings in the range of $3.90 a share, or $1.9 billion, but now those estimates are being scaled back. In composite trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, BellSouth shares fell 87.5 cents to $52.125. 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} | Anheuser-Busch Cos. said it plans to aggressively discount its major beer brands, setting the stage for a potentially bruising price war as the maturing industry's growth continues to slow. Anheuser, the world's largest brewer and U.S. market leader, has historically been reluctant to engage in price-cutting as a means of boosting sales volume. With the passing of the heady days of swelling industry sales, however, the once-sporadic and brief forays into discounting are becoming standard competitive weapons in the beer industry. Over the summer, Anheuser's competitors offered more and deeper discounts than industry observers have seen for a long time. Some experts now predict Anheuser's entry into the fray means near-term earnings trouble for all industry players. The St. Louis company said major rivals, Philip Morris Co.'s Miller Brewing unit and Adolph Coors Co., "have been following a policy of continuous and deep discounting for at least the past 18 months" on their premium brands, pricing their product as much as 25 cents a 12-pack below Anheuser's Budweiser label in many markets. Anheuser said its discounting policy basically would involve matching such moves by rivals on a market-by-market basis. Anheuser-Busch announced its plan at the same time it reported third-quarter net income rose a lower-than-anticipated 5.2% to $238.3 million, or 83 cents a share, from $226.5 million, or 78 cents. Third-period sales were $2.49 billion, up from last year's $2.34 billion. Anheuser said its new strategy -- started in some markets last month and expected to be applied soon in selected markets nationwide -- will mean lower-than-anticipated earnings for the last half of 1989 and for 1990. The projection sent Anheuser shares plunging $4.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. The stock closed at $38.50 on heavy volume of about 3.5 million shares. Shares of Coors, the company's sole publicly traded major competitor, fell $1.50 apiece to $19.125 in national over-the-counter trading, apparently on investor concerns over potential fallout from the coming pricing struggle. Anheuser noted that "beer industry sales volume in 1989 is following the trend that has characterized the last half of the '80s, with sales volume being essentially flat" while consolidation creates fewer, bigger players. "We cannot permit a further slowing in our volume trend," Anheuser said, adding it will take "appropriate competitive pricing actions to support our long-term market share growth strategy" for the premium brands. Anheuser said it continues to hold to its earlier-announced goal of a 50% U.S. market share by the mid-1990s. Beneath the tepid news-release jargon lies a powerful threat from the brewing giant, which last year accounted for about 41% of all U.S. beer sales and is expected to see that grow to 42.5% in the current year. "Anheuser is the biggest guy in the bar, and he just decided to join in the barroom brawl," said Joseph J. Doyle, an analyst with Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. "It's going to get bloody." Jerry Steinman, publisher of Beer Marketers Insights, a trade newsletter, said Anheuser's announcement means "everybody else in the industry is going to have a difficult time reaching their profit objectives." Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. analyst George E. Thompson downplayed the importance of the announcement, and called any comparison between the coming beer-industry tiff and the seemingly unending "cola wars" unwarranted. Mr. Thompson calls discounting "a loser's game for anyone without a dominant market share," and projected that Anheuser's statement of intent could simply be a means of warning competitors to ease up on price-cutting or face a costly and fruitless battle. Mr. Thompson noted that the disappointing earnings, which fell five cents a share short of his own projections, contributed to the sell-off by an edgy and currently unforgiving investing public. But Smith Barney's Mr. Doyle, who yesterday trimmed his 1990 Anheuser earnings projection to $2.95 a share from $3.10, called the market's reaction "justified." While the third-quarter earnings were a "moderate disappointment," he said, "the real bad news is the intensity of price competition" in the premium-beer sector. According to Mr. Steinman, the newsletter publisher, Anheuser's market share is nearly twice that of its nearest competitor, Miller Brewing, which had a 21.2% stake last year. 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That is at the high end of the range of 7,000 to 8,000 employees that Unisys said a month ago would be laid off. Unisys said that should help it save $500 million a year in costs, again at the high end of the previously reported range of $400 million to $500 million. The company also took a write-off of $150 million to cover losses on some fixed-price defense contracts, as some new managers took a hard look at the prospects for that slow-growing business. In addition, Unisys set up an unspecified reserve -- apparently $60 million to $70 million -- to cover the minimum amount it will have to pay the government because of its involvement in the defense-procurement scandal. Unisys also noted that it paid $78.8 million in taxes during the quarter, even though tax payments normally would be minimal in a quarter that produced such a big loss. The tax payments will leave Unisys with $225 million in loss carry-forwards that will cut tax payments in future quarters. 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That means Unisys must pay about $100 million in interest every quarter, on top of $27 million in dividends on preferred stock. Jim Unruh, Unisys's president, said he is approaching next year with caution. He said the strength of the world-wide economy is suspect, and doesn't see much revenue growth in the cards. He also said that the price wars flaring up in parts of the computer industry will continue through next year. He said the move toward standard operating systems means customers aren't locked into buying from their traditional computer supplier and can force prices down. That, he said, is why Unisys is overhauling its whole business: It needs to prepare for a world in which profit margins will be lower than computer companies have been used to. "We've approached this not as a response to a temporary condition in the industry but as a fundamental change the industry is going through," Mr. Unruh said. 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Just clobbered," <ei2821>said</ei2821> Ulric Weil, an analyst at Weil & Associates who had once been high on the company. "The quarter was terrible, and the future looks anything but encouraging." Unisys, whose revenue <ei2823>inched</ei2823> up 3.7% in the quarter to $2.35 billion from $2.27 billion in the year-earlier quarter, <ei2826>had</ei2826> an operating loss of about $30 million. On top of that, the Blue Bell, Pa., concern <ei2828>took</ei2828> a $230 million charge related to the layoffs of 8,000 employees. That is at the high end of the range of 7,000 to 8,000 employees that Unisys <ei2831>said</ei2831> a month ago would be laid off. Unisys <ei2833>said</ei2833> that should help it save $500 million a year in costs, again at the high end of the previously reported range of $400 million to $500 million. The company also <ei2837>took</ei2837> a write-off of $150 million to <ei2839>cover</ei2839> losses on some fixed-price defense contracts, as some new managers <ei2841>took</ei2841> a hard <ei2842>look</ei2842> at the prospects for that slow-growing business. In addition, Unisys <ei2844>set</ei2844> up an unspecified reserve -- apparently $60 million to $70 million -- to cover the minimum amount it will have to pay the government because of its involvement in the defense-procurement scandal. Unisys also <ei2849>noted</ei2849> that it <ei2850>paid</ei2850> $78.8 million in taxes during the quarter, even though tax payments normally would be minimal in a quarter that produced such a big loss. The tax payments will <ei2852>leave</ei2852> Unisys with $225 million in loss carry-forwards that will <ei2853>cut</ei2853> tax payments in future quarters. 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In January this year, British police officers who had been searching for Howes concluded he had probably been killed soon after being captured. The Foreign Office said it had informed the family of Howes, 37 years old when he was kidnapped, that he probably died within weeks or months of his capture on March 26, 1996. ``Obviously, it is deeply discouraging for the family after 22 months, but there is no proof of life. But there is no evidence in either direction — that there is proof of life or death,'' said a Foreign Office spokesman, speaking with customary anonymity. ``We will continue to do everything we can to establish what has happened.'' Thai military officials who monitor Cambodian affairs said privately Thursday that Britain, through its embassies in Thailand and Cambodia, has been pushing hard to resolve the Howes case as the second anniversary of his abduction nears. Nhek Bunchhay, who had been closely involved in the search for Howes before having to flee the Cambodian capital after a coup d'état last year, appeared confident he would find Howes' remains. He said he received information from Khmer Rouge guerrillas on where the body had been buried, and recently ordered 10 of his men from a force of 500 near Khmer Rouge headquarters in Anlong Veng to conduct the search. If and when the remains are found, he said, they would be turned over to the British Embassy, apparently meaning they would be sent across the border into Thailand and onward to Bangkok. Nhek Bunchhay said he now believed Howes had been killed within a week of his capture by a Khmer Rouge faction loyal to Pol Pot, then the guerrilla group's leader. Pol Pot is considered responsible for the radical policies that led to the deaths of as many as 1.7 million Cambodians when the communist group held power in the late 1970s. At the time Howes was captured, the Khmer Rouge were a more or less united guerrilla force with more than 10,000 men under arms. But the group began to fall apart in mid-1996 after the defection of one of its top leaders, Ieng Sary. Other commanders, and thousands of guerrillas, followed him. A small hardcore group under Pol Pot continued to hold out at their headquarters at Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia near the Thai border. But in June last year, the remaining leadership had a falling out, and Pol Pot was arrested. In July last year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen staged a successful coup d'état against First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh. Ranariddh's loyalists, including Nhek Bunchhay, his top military commander, went into hiding or fled the capital. Nhek Bunchhay, evading an intensive manhunt, made his way to O'Smach, the last major outpost held by Ranariddh's forces. 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The White House yesterday disclosed that Kuwait's ousted government has formally asked the U.S. to enforce the total trade embargo the United Nations has imposed on Iraq, allowing the U.S. and other nations to immediately begin stopping ships carrying Iraqi goods. Secretary of State James Baker, speaking on ABC News' "This Week," said the Kuwaiti request gives the U.S. and other countries "a legal basis for stopping the export of oil and that sort of thing." The U.S. maintains that under the U.N. charter, the Kuwaiti request triggers steps for the collective enforcement of international sanctions. Mr. Baker declined to use the word blockade, but said that "interdiction" of Iraqi shipments would begin "almost instantly." In a statement, the White House said it would do "whatever is necessary" to ensure compliance with the sanctions. Other Bush administration officials said that the international naval force in the area -- consisting of American, British, French, Canadian, Soviet, German and Australian ships -- may be used both to stop oil exports from leaving Iraq and Kuwait and to stop shipments of food and other goods from entering. President Bush implied as much yesterday when reporters asked whether the interdiction would apply to food. The president responded, "Everything, everything." While shying away from actually using the word "blockade," Mr. Bush acknowledged that the U.S. and others were trying to block shipping to Iraq. "No point getting into all these semantics," he said. "The main thing is to stop the oil from coming out of there." The naval interdiction force is part of an overall American strategy that officials say is designed to leave the Iraqi leader with only the stark choice of backing out of Kuwait or launching new attacks to change his situation. 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So Saddam Hussein on Friday tried to scare other Arab leaders into supporting him by calling on Arabs to rise up in a holy war against leaders who invited American and other Western soldiers into Saudi Arabia to protect the oil-rich kingdom. Then yesterday, he tried to entice Arab leaders with his proposal for a diplomatic solution linking his occupation of Kuwait with Israel's occupation of the West Bank. The proposal also called for replacing American and other Western troops in Saudi Arabia with Arab forces. The Bush administration immediately said it "categorically" rejects the proposals. And President Bush yesterday, asked whether he was at least glad Iraq is discussing negotiations, replied: "I don't see anything to be pleasing in there at all." American strategists are calculating, though, that the trade sanctions -- enforced by an effective though perhaps undeclared naval blockade -- will hold tightly enough to convince Iraq that it will lose in the long run by simply standing pat. At that point, rather than go through the humiliation of backing out of Kuwait, the Iraqis might well conclude that they need to lash out in some way to shake things up. In that event, Saddam Hussein appears to have three choices. The first would be to launch the much-feared direct invasion of Saudi Arabia, hoping to seize some Saudi oil fields and improve his bargaining position. But that option is growing less and less likely as thousands of American, British, Egyptian, Syrian and Moroccan forces assemble in and around Saudi Arabia to protect the kingdom. The Saudis even have in their possession 48 Kuwaiti jet fighters, virtually the entire Kuwaiti air force, which managed to escape the Iraqi invasion, Saudi officials said. The Saudi "window of vulnerability... is closing very fast," Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, said over the weekend. The second possibility would be to start a fight with Israel, in hopes that all Arabs would have to move behind Iraq in a fight against their common Israeli enemy. In such an event, Saddam Hussein also might calculate, the Saudis would be under pressure to kick out U.S. troops because of America's close ties with Israel. Iraq could start hostilities with Israel either through a direct attack or by attacking Jordan. Israel has publicly declared that it will respond to an Iraqi attack on Jordan because it won't allow Iraq's dangerous army to take control of Jordan's long border with Israel. Iraq's third attack option would be to start an undeclared war on the U.S. and other Western nations through terrorism. Two Middle East terrorists with records of successful attacks against Western targets, Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas, have ties to Baghdad. And even terrorist groups that opposed Iraq in its war with Iran show signs of swinging behind Saddam Hussein now that he is in a confrontation with the U.S. And Iraq still has thousands of Americans and other Westerners under its control in Iraq and Kuwait. They aren't being allowed to leave and could become hostages. If Iraq chooses a simple war of nerves and economic attrition, the Bush administration knows a long stalemate could try the patience of the American public and the West in general, and could open the possibility that moderate Arabs -- even including Saudi Arabia -- might drop out of the effort against Iraq and accept some deal from Saddam Hussein. But U.S. officials have sized up Saddam Hussein as a man who, despite some recklessness, will back down if he must. "This is a guy who is impulsive, and therefore capable of big miscalculations," says one senior administration official involved in managing the crisis. The official adds, though, that "at the same time, we think he is someone who is capable of rational judgments when it comes to power. And when he finds something is unprofitable, then one can see certain accommodations." Thus, administration aides will be trying to calculate whether Saddam Hussein's proposed diplomatic formula for getting out of Kuwait represents the first sign he is searching for a way out or simply is a public relations stunt. There are disagreements among experts about how much pressure will be needed to make Saddam Hussein decide he's up against the wall and whether simple economic pressure will ever be enough. The biggest worry is that if he decides he needs a way out of his predicament but doesn't see a face-saving method, he could lash out in dangerous and unpredictable ways. U.S. officials claim they already see signs Saddam Hussein is getting nervous. In the first days after President Bush announced the dispatching of U.S. troops, they note, the Iraqi leader made several nationwide addresses indirectly -- having them read by a television announcer. "That shows he's nervous about pinpointing his location, either because he's afraid we'll find him, or that internal enemies will," says one U.S. official. The unpredictability of Iraq's leader is a principal reason the U.S. is going to such great lengths to build a mammoth force in and around Saudi Arabia. Pentagon officials say the goal is to put 40,000 troops in the region by the end of the month. But the administration isn't putting any upper limit on how high the force could go after that, calculating that it would be a mistake to underestimate and an advantage to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. U.S. commanders in charge of planning for Middle East crises have indicated in the past that they were capable of deploying as many as 300,000 troops. And the U.S. is taking similar steps to ensure that its naval force is adequate to carry out a blockade of Iraq and support a war if necessary. Over the weekend, Pentagon officials confirmed reports that a fourth U.S. aircraft carrier -- the John F. Kennedy -- and its powerful group of support ships could head for the Middle East within a few days. Three other carriers and their escort vessels already are stationed within striking distance of Iraq or are steaming toward the area. But unless the military situation changes drastically, military officials say, the most likely plan will be for the Kennedy to eventually replace the carrier Dwight D. 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Even as Saddam Hussein was <ei1155>searching</ei1155> for a ploy to ease his isolation, though, the international pressure against him <ei1160>increased</ei1160> another notch. The White House yesterday <ei1161>disclosed</ei1161> that Kuwait's ousted government has formally <ei1162>asked</ei1162> the U.S. to enforce the total trade embargo the United Nations has imposed on Iraq, <ei1166>allowing</ei1166> the U.S. and other nations to immediately begin <ei1168>stopping</ei1168> ships carrying Iraqi goods. Secretary of State James Baker, <ei1170>speaking</ei1170> on ABC News' "This Week," <ei1171>said</ei1171> the Kuwaiti request <ei1173>gives</ei1173> the U.S. and other countries "a legal basis for stopping the export of oil and that sort of thing." The U.S. <ei1176>maintains</ei1176> that under the U.N. charter, the Kuwaiti request <ei1178>triggers</ei1178> steps for the collective enforcement of international sanctions. Mr. Baker <ei1181>declined</ei1181> to use the word blockade, but <ei1184>said</ei1184> that "interdiction" of Iraqi shipments would <ei1187>begin</ei1187> "almost instantly." In a statement, the White House <ei1189>said</ei1189> it would do "whatever is necessary" to ensure compliance with the sanctions. Other Bush administration officials <ei1194>said</ei1194> that the international naval force in the area -- consisting of American, British, French, Canadian, Soviet, German and Australian ships -- may be used both to stop oil exports from leaving Iraq and Kuwait and to stop shipments of food and other goods from <ei1201>entering</ei1201>. President Bush <ei1202>implied</ei1202> as much yesterday when reporters <ei1203>asked</ei1203> whether the interdiction would apply to food. The president <ei1206>responded</ei1206>, "Everything, everything." While <ei1207>shying</ei1207> away from actually <ei1208>using</ei1208> the word "blockade," Mr. Bush <ei1210>acknowledged</ei1210> that the U.S. and others were trying to block shipping to Iraq. "No point getting into all these semantics," he <ei1214>said</ei1214>. "The main thing is to stop the oil from coming out of there." The naval interdiction force is part of an overall American strategy that officials say is designed to leave the Iraqi leader with only the stark choice of backing out of Kuwait or launching new attacks to change his situation. Though they insist they aren't trying to lure Saddam Hussein into an attack, officials hope that if he strikes again, the U.S. and its allies will have such an impressive force in place in Saudi Arabia that they will be able to crush him in retaliation. Iraq's first option, of course, may be simply to sit tight and hope it can endure a trade embargo longer than the West can live without Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil. Speaking on the ABC program, Abdul Amir al-Anbari, Iraq's ambassador to the U.N., asserted that an embargo on Iraq could plunge the U.S. into a "depression" and the rest of the world into an economic "crisis." Iraq clearly is trying to woo back more Arab support in case the conflict drags on, hoping that its neighbors eventually will help it survive a prolonged war of economic attrition with the West. So Saddam Hussein on Friday tried to scare other Arab leaders into supporting him by <ei1235>calling</ei1235> on Arabs to rise up in a holy war against leaders who <ei1238>invited</ei1238> American and other Western soldiers into Saudi Arabia to <ei1239>protect</ei1239> the oil-rich kingdom. Then yesterday, he <ei1240>tried</ei1240> to entice Arab leaders with his proposal for a diplomatic solution linking his occupation of Kuwait with Israel's occupation of the West Bank. The proposal also <ei1248>called</ei1248> for replacing American and other Western troops in Saudi Arabia with Arab forces. The Bush administration immediately <ei1250>said</ei1250> it "categorically" <ei1251>rejects</ei1251> the proposals. And President Bush yesterday, <ei1253>asked</ei1253> whether he was at least glad Iraq is <ei1254>discussing</ei1254> negotiations, <ei1256>replied</ei1256>: "I don't see anything to be pleasing in there at all." American strategists are calculating, though, that the trade sanctions -- enforced by an effective though perhaps undeclared naval blockade -- will hold tightly enough to convince Iraq that it will lose in the long run by simply standing pat. At that point, rather than go through the humiliation of backing out of Kuwait, the Iraqis might well conclude that they need to lash out in some way to shake things up. In that event, Saddam Hussein <ei1265>appears</ei1265> to <ei1266>have</ei1266> three choices. The first would be to launch the much-feared direct invasion of Saudi Arabia, hoping to seize some Saudi oil fields and improve his bargaining position. But that option is <ei1274>growing</ei1274> less and less likely as thousands of American, British, Egyptian, Syrian and Moroccan forces <ei1275>assemble</ei1275> in and around Saudi Arabia to protect the kingdom. The Saudis even have in their possession 48 Kuwaiti jet fighters, virtually the entire Kuwaiti air force, which <ei1278>managed</ei1278> to escape the Iraqi invasion, Saudi officials <ei1281>said</ei1281>. The Saudi "window of vulnerability... is <ei1282>closing</ei1282> very fast," Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, <ei1283>said</ei1283> over the weekend. The second possibility would be to start a fight with Israel, in hopes that all Arabs would have to move behind Iraq in a fight against their common Israeli enemy. 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"That <ei1341>shows</ei1341> he's nervous about pinpointing his location, either because he's afraid we'll find him, or that internal enemies will," <ei1344>says</ei1344> one U.S. official. The unpredictability of Iraq's leader is a principal reason the U.S. is going to such great lengths to build a mammoth force in and around Saudi Arabia. Pentagon officials <ei1345>say</ei1345> the goal is to put 40,000 troops in the region by the end of the month. But the administration isn't putting any upper limit on how high the force could go after that, <ei1351>calculating</ei1351> that it would be a mistake to underestimate and an advantage to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. U.S. commanders in charge of planning for Middle East crises have <ei1358>indicated</ei1358> in the past that they were capable of <ei1360>deploying</ei1360> as many as 300,000 troops. 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Even if the gross national product is either flat or in the growth range of 2% to 2.5%, "we can handle that," Mr. Marous said. GNP is the total value of the nation's output of goods and services. A bright spot is the company's power-generation business, which is experiencing a surge of growth for the first time in years. Mr. Marous said the business will achieve higher sales this year than the company's target goal of 8.5%. While Westinghouse hasn't had a nuclear power plant order from a U.S. utility in about a decade, excess capacity is beginning to shrink. Mr. Lego said the company foresees the need for a major boost in new-generation capability throughout the 1990s. Westinghouse also is well positioned to sell steam turbine and gas turbine plants to independent power producers. The company's ability to respond to energy needs worldwide will be enhanced through a recently announced venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mr. Lego said. He said the independent power segment could grow to provide as much as 50% of near-term generation capacity, adding: "We expect to supply a significant share of this market." Westinghouse also expects its international sales to soon grow to 25% of total corporate sales from 20% last year. The company is negotiating with the Soviets to build a Thermo King truck-refrigeration plant that would produce about 10,000 units annually. Mr. Marous said Westinghouse would own 70% of the facility. The deal, which will involve an initial $20 million investment, was struck with a handshake, he added. Company officials also said that any gain from the sale of Westinghouse's 55% stake in its transmission and distribution venture with the Swiss firm of Asea Brown Boveri will be offset by a restructuring charge in the fourth quarter. The executives didn't disclose the size of the expected gain. 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} | Turning its back on 210 years of loyalty to the British royal family, a constitutional convention voted overwhelmingly on Friday to make Australia a republic under its own president. Prime Minister John Howard, a monarchist himself, promised to put the question to a national referendum next year after convention delegates voted 89-52 for a republic, with 11 abstentions. Spontaneous applause echoed through the chamber and public galleries as the crucial vote passed by a wide margin. ``I want a referendum,'' Howard said. ``The Australian people are owed the opportunity of expressing an opinion on this.'' ``It would be a travesty of Australian democracy for that proposition not to be put to the Australian people,'' Howard said. Even in his own Cabinet, Howard is becoming increasingly isolated with his monarchist stance. Treasurer Peter Costello, Environment Minister Robert Hill and Attorney-General Daryl Williams all voted to support the republic on Friday. ``This convention will be seen as a turning point in our history,'' Australian Republican Movement spokeswoman Mary Delahunty said. Pro-republicans hope to have an Australian president by the opening of the 2000 Olympics and the 100th anniversary of Australian federation. Calling for an amended constitution with a new preamble, to be written by Australian poets, republican Janet Holmes a Court said, ``We need the smell of eucalyptus in this, and the feel of red dust.'' Monarchists hope to defeat the republic at the referendum. ``The phony war has finished and the real referendum campaign has clearly begun,'' Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy executive director Kerry Jones said. ``Well may we say `God save the Queen,' for nothing will save the republic,'' outraged monarchist delegate David Mitchell said. ``The idea of a republic will fall to dust through the grace of almighty God.'' Polls have shown public support for a republic increasing, rising from about 35 percent several years ago to about 51 percent this year, as pro-monarchist sentiment diminishes. Australia has been independent since 1901, but like many Commonwealth nations it still recognizes the British monarch as its head of state. Howard said Queen Elizabeth II is taking a great interest in the convention. ``She is, I can assure you, from what I've been told, she's following the proceedings very closely and taking the view it's our business. ``It's no secret that she's indicated to me... she is a 20th-century democrat, understands that the role of the crown in Australia rests in the hands of the Australian people as it has for almost a hundred years.'' The model for a republic, adopted over bitter objections from those advocating direct election of a president, is for presidential nominations to be made with public input and the winning candidate decided by a two-thirds majority of Parliament. Former prime minister Paul Keating, who put the republic issue in the spotlight in his unsuccessful 1996 campaign for re-election, welcomed the result. ``This is an important step along the path towards Australia claiming its full sovereignty, and due recognition that the monarchy can no longer serve us appropriately,'' Keating said. | <ei2000>Turning</ei2000> its back on 210 years of loyalty to the British royal family, a constitutional convention <ei2001>voted</ei2001> overwhelmingly on Friday to make Australia a republic under its own president. Prime Minister John Howard, a monarchist himself, <ei2003>promised</ei2003> to put the question to a national referendum next year after convention delegates <ei2007>voted</ei2007> 89-52 for a republic, with 11 abstentions. Spontaneous applause <ei2009>echoed</ei2009> through the chamber and public galleries as the crucial vote <ei2011>passed</ei2011> by a wide margin. ``I want a referendum,'' Howard <ei2014>said</ei2014>. ``The Australian people are <ei2015>owed</ei2015> the opportunity of expressing an opinion on this.'' ``It would be a travesty of Australian democracy for that proposition not to be put to the Australian people,'' Howard <ei2020>said</ei2020>. Even in his own Cabinet, Howard is <ei2021>becoming</ei2021> increasingly <ei2022>isolated</ei2022> with his monarchist stance. Treasurer Peter Costello, Environment Minister Robert Hill and Attorney-General Daryl Williams all <ei2023>voted</ei2023> to <ei2024>support</ei2024> the republic on Friday. ``This convention will be seen as a turning point in our history,'' Australian Republican Movement spokeswoman Mary Delahunty <ei2026>said</ei2026>. 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The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy bought a hundred acres in Loudoun County, Virginia, and asked for permission to build a fifty-million-dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone dropped off leaflets warning that the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle-class area became alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute says it's a familiar story. There is, at a very deep level in our culture, a sense of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents denounced the bigotry, but opposition to the school then shifted. Now critics of the academy are targeting its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the Fellowship Church and School in Ashburn has led the anti-Saudi campaign. James Allmen says he has no problem with a privately funded academy, but he has a big problem with a Saudi-funded school. The Saudi Arabian government has an atrocious record on human rights and is known to be one of the worst offending countries when it comes to religious persecution. That's correct. And that is a condition of the application, then. At a public hearing on the Islamic Saudi Academy's application, the split in county opinion was obvious. Supporters of the academy, including Ann Robinson, said the Saudis were just providing a service and it was unfair to penalize children. We do not further the purpose of human rights in the world by violating human rights under our own constitution. But opponents said the school might be a target for terrorist attacks, complained about its tax-exempt status, and wondered why the Saudis are not compelled to allow Christians to worship in their country. Virginia Welch delivered this message to the county board of supervisors: I urge you to do the right thing and send a message to the Saudis that the citizens of Loudoun County embrace religious and human freedom. Loudoun County officials say they'll rule on the application based only on land-use issues and ignore all the other objections. What's really behind those objections, some say, is Loudoun County's collision with a new reality in America—that the country is changing religiously as surely as it is racially and ethnically. According to the Arab American Institute, Islam will one day be the second largest religion in the country. For an indication of the problems that could face Muslims as they integrate into American life, one need look no farther than Loudoun County, Virginia. For The World, I'm Nancy Marshall. | Tomorrow the board of supervisors of Loudoun County, Virginia, will vote on whether a school now located in Mount Vernon can relocate to their county. In some respects, that's typical county business, but tomorrow's vote has international implications. The board will decide whether the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, can move to Ashburn, Virginia. But local residents have not exactly rolled out the red carpet for their would-be neighbors. The World's Nancy Marshall has our story. Inside the Islamic Saudi Academy in Mount Vernon, Virginia, many of the girls wear head scarves and some of the neatly dressed children are in uniforms. The instruction is in English for most classes, in Arabic for language and religious studies. The school says it teaches the children to be good Muslims and good students. They're learning a civics lesson from the residents of Loudoun County. The Islamic Saudi Academy has twelve hundred mostly American students but would take thirty-five hundred if it had the room. The academy <ei555>bought</ei555> a hundred acres in Loudoun County, Virginia, and <ei556>asked</ei556> for permission to build a fifty-million-dollar campus. In the nearby suburban housing tracts, someone <ei559>dropped</ei559> off leaflets <ei560>warning</ei560> that the school could bring thousands of Middle Eastern strangers and terrorists. Some residents of the mostly white, mostly middle-class area <ei562>became</ei562> alarmed. James Zogby of the Arab American Institute <ei564>says</ei564> it's a familiar story. There is, at a very deep level in our culture, a sense of ignorance about Islam, a fear about who Muslims are and what they're doing. Many local residents <ei568>denounced</ei568> the bigotry, but opposition to the school then <ei571>shifted</ei571>. Now critics of the academy are <ei572>targeting</ei572> its owner, the Saudi government. Pastor James Allmen of the Fellowship Church and School in Ashburn has <ei573>led</ei573> the anti-Saudi campaign. 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Volume was 840.8 million shares, up from 443.6 million on Thursday and the week's most active session. Dealers said the turnover, largely confined to the 100-share index stocks, partly reflected the flurry of activity typical at the close of a two-week trading account and the start of a new account. But they said Friday's focus on the top-tier stocks telegraphed active overseas selling and showed the broad-based fears over the status of the U.K. economy and Britain's currency in the wake of the upheaval in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet. A senior dealer with Warburg Securities noted British Gas, the most active blue-chip stock at 20 million shares traded, was affected by the political implications of Mr. Lawson's departure and Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet shuffle. He attributed the unusually high volume to broad-based selling on fears that the Thatcher government may be in turmoil and Britain's Labour Party was positioned to regain control of the government and renew efforts at nationalization. British Gas shed 8.5 pence a share to close at 185 pence ($2.90). Other dealers added that the blue-chip stocks in general were hit by profit-taking over concerns that London shares would continue posting declines and the uncertainty over sterling given that Mr. Lawson's successor, John Major, had only been in the job one day. Besides British Gas, British Steel skidded 1.74 to 123.5 on turnover of 11 million shares. British Petroleum fell 5 to 286 on 14 million shares traded. Dealers said the multinational oil company was pressured by recent brokerage recommendations urging investors to switch into Shell Trading and Transport. Shell eased 1 to 416 on turnover of 4.8 million shares. Among the other actively traded blue-chip issues, Imperial Chemical Industries dropped 11 to 10.86, Hanson skidded 9.5 to 200.5, and British Telecom fell 10 to 250. In Tokyo, stocks closed lower but above intraday lows in active trading. The Nikkei index was pressured down by profit-taking triggered by sharp advances made through that week and fell 151.20 points to 35527.29. In early trading in Tokyo on Monday, the Nikkei index fell 148.85 points to 35378.44. On Friday, the Tokyo stock price index of first section issues was down 15.82 at 2681.76. First-section volume was estimated at 1.3 billion shares, up from 886 million shares on Thursday. An official at Wako Securities said brokerages' excessive expectations about recent advances in Tokyu Group shares and real estate issues were dashed on Friday. Dealers placed heavy buy orders in the morning to start the first trading day for November transactions. But they failed to sell these stocks to client investors, who were cautious about the sharp gains these issues made that week, the Wako official said. Fund managers said Friday's profit-taking was a natural result of the week's "abnormal fever" in buying real estate, shipbuilding, steel and construction shares. Frankfurt prices closed lower again on Friday, the fourth decline in the past five days and the culmination of a week that saw the DAX index lose 4%. The DAX dropped 19.69 points on Friday to 1462.93. Traders said the continued turbulence in other markets, coupled with the drop in London following the Lawson resignation, were responsible. Traders said that selling pressure wasn't enormous and that the DAX dropped on Friday more on a lack of any substantial buying interest. They said contributing to the downward drift was the fact that many professional traders had chosen to square positions ahead of the weekend. "It's the whole uncertainty about what's happening around us," said Valentin Von Korff, a trader at Credit Suisse First Boston in Frankfurt. "If you take away the outside influences, the market itself looks very cheap. What's happening here isn't justified by the fundamentals." Traders said the market remains extremely nervous because of the wild swings seen on the New York Stock Exchange last week. That's leaving small investors with cold feet, they said, and prompting institutions to take a reserved stance on the sidelines as well, at least until the market in New York settles down somewhat. Elsewhere, share prices closed lower in Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Brussels and Stockholm, and were mixed in Milan. The British shakeup was widely cited for the declines. Share prices also closed lower in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Manila, Wellington and Seoul. Concern about declines in other markets, especially New York, caused selling pressure. Here are price trends on the world's major stock markets, as calculated by Morgan Stanley Capital International Perspective, Geneva. To make them directly comparable, each index is based on the close of 1969 equaling 100. The percentage change is since year-end. | London share prices <ei1363>closed</ei1363> sharply lower on Friday in active trading after Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson's resignation <ei1366>slapped</ei1366> the market and Wall Street's rapid initial sell-off <ei1367>knocked</ei1367> it down. London shares were <ei1368>depressed</ei1368> initially by overnight losses in New York and by the drop in sterling after Mr. Lawson's resignation. It showed some early resilience after central bank support <ei1374>firmed</ei1374> sterling, but the weight of Wall Street's performance late in London trading, and signs of further weakness in the British pound, proved a hefty load to <ei1377>bear</ei1377>. New York stocks <ei1378>recovered</ei1378> some of their losses after the London market <ei1379>closed</ei1379>. The Financial Times 100-share index <ei1380>shed</ei1380> 47.3 points to <ei1381>close</ei1381> at 2082.1, down 4.5% from the previous Friday and 6.8% from October 13, when Wall Street's plunge <ei1383>helped</ei1383> <ei1384>spark</ei1384> the current weakness in London. The 30-share index <ei1386>settled</ei1386> 42.0 points lower at 1678.5. Volume was 840.8 million shares, up from 443.6 million on Thursday and the week's most active session. Dealers <ei1391>said</ei1391> the turnover, largely confined to the 100-share index stocks, partly <ei1392>reflected</ei1392> the flurry of activity typical at the close of a two-week trading account and the start of a new account. But they <ei1398>said</ei1398> Friday's focus on the top-tier stocks <ei1399>telegraphed</ei1399> active overseas selling and <ei1401>showed</ei1401> the broad-based fears over the status of the U.K. economy and Britain's currency in the wake of the upheaval in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet. A senior dealer with Warburg Securities <ei1405>noted</ei1405> British Gas, the most active blue-chip stock at 20 million shares traded, was <ei1406>affected</ei1406> by the political implications of Mr. Lawson's departure and Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet shuffle. He <ei1409>attributed</ei1409> the unusually high volume to broad-based selling on fears that the Thatcher government may be in turmoil and Britain's Labour Party <ei1414>was positioned</ei1414> to regain control of the government and renew efforts at nationalization. British Gas <ei1420>shed</ei1420> 8.5 pence a share to <ei1421>close</ei1421> at 185 pence ($2.90). Other dealers <ei1423>added</ei1423> that the blue-chip stocks in general were <ei1424>hit</ei1424> by profit-taking over concerns that London shares would <ei1426>continue</ei1426> posting declines and the uncertainty over sterling given that Mr. Lawson's successor, John Major, had only been in the job one day. Besides British Gas, British Steel <ei1431>skidded</ei1431> 1.74 to 123.5 on turnover of 11 million shares. British Petroleum <ei1433>fell</ei1433> 5 to 286 on 14 million shares traded. Dealers <ei1435>said</ei1435> the multinational oil company was <ei1436>pressured</ei1436> by recent brokerage recommendations <ei1437>urging</ei1437> investors to switch into Shell Trading and Transport. Shell <ei1439>eased</ei1439> 1 to 416 on turnover of 4.8 million shares. Among the other actively traded blue-chip issues, Imperial Chemical Industries <ei1441>dropped</ei1441> 11 to 10.86, Hanson <ei1443>skidded</ei1443> 9.5 to 200.5, and British Telecom <ei1445>fell</ei1445> 10 to 250. 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But they failed to sell these stocks to client investors, who were cautious about the sharp gains these issues <ei1476>made</ei1476> that week, the Wako official <ei1477>said</ei1477>. Fund managers <ei1478>said</ei1478> Friday's profit-taking was a natural result of the week's "abnormal fever" in <ei1482>buying</ei1482> real estate, shipbuilding, steel and construction shares. Frankfurt prices <ei1483>closed</ei1483> lower again on Friday, the fourth decline in the past five days and the culmination of a week that saw the DAX index <ei1487>lose</ei1487> 4%. The DAX <ei1488>dropped</ei1488> 19.69 points on Friday to 1462.93. Traders <ei1490>said</ei1490> the continued turbulence in other markets, coupled with the drop in London following the Lawson resignation, were responsible. Traders <ei1495>said</ei1495> that selling pressure wasn't enormous and that the DAX <ei1496>dropped</ei1496> on Friday more on a lack of any substantial buying interest. 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