News stories from Thursday November 25, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Controversial economic proposals are being studied by the Reagan administration in a search for new ways to deal with continuing high unemployment. White House officials said that options under study included possible taxing of jobless benefits, lowering the minimum wage for teenagers in the summer and giving tax credits to employers who hire long-term unemployed workers. [New York Times]
- Damage wrought by Hurricane lwa on Hawaii was estimated at nearly $200 million. Mayor Eileen Anderson of Honolulu described destruction on the west side of Oahu, the state's most populous island, as "a major disaster," and Gov. George Ariyoshi asked the federal government to declare Hawaii a disaster area so the state could get federal aid. [New York Times]
- Markdowns on women's apparel at leading department stores across the nation are exceeding those for any Christmas season in years. Many retailers say they fear they face what may be the bleakest holiday selling season in 25 years, and they are concerned about what the trend in markdowns bodes for the merchandising of moderately priced and high-priced women's apparel. [New York Times]
- Major new findings about the Sahara have been revealed by radar studies made by the space shuttle Columbia. The radar images, exposing subsurface features as deep as 16 feet, reveal buried sites of possible Stone Age settlements and subterranean traces of former rivers that carved out valleys as broad as those of the Nile. [New York Times]
- A suspect in the attack on the Pope in mid-1981 was arrested in Rome. An employee of the Bulgarian national airline and tourist office who has lived in Rome for four years was charged with complicity in the attempt on the life of John Paul II. A Turk is serving a life sentence for the attempt and has repeatedly asserted he acted alone. [New York Times]
- Pravda carried a detailed rebuttal to President Reagan's arguments for deploying the MX intercontinental missile, charging that the plan would violate the Soviet-American accords limiting strategic arms. [New York Times]
- Poland has vowed to end martial law in mid-December if no unexpected snags arise, according to Western officials in London. They said that Warsaw had informed Western European officials that it planned to lift martial law Dec. 13, exactly one year after it was imposed. [New York Times]
- Yasuhiro Nakasone was elected Japan's 71st Prime Minister by votes in the two houses of Parliament. Mr. Nakasone, who is 64 years old, is the leader of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, which has been in power since 1955. [New York Times]
- Garret FitzGerald claimed victory despite a narrow margin in vote totals in Ireland's third general election in 18 months. The former Prime Minister said an attempt to help settle the "desperate tragedy of Northern Ireland" would be a top priority of the government he would try to form. [New York Times]