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Japanese leader rejects reductions' Thursday, December 3, 1881 Ptge l-B below 1.68 million units, the limit set for this year. He said he would "flatly reject such a proposal even if it were made with Japanese government support. He was also quoted by Kyodo News Service Wednesday as saying that main- tabling the fiscal 1981 level "is a matter of life or death" for Japan's automakers. The Japanese are faced with falling TOKYO (AP) A leader of the Japanese auto industry, Nissan Motor Co. President Takashi Ishihara, said Wednesday his company will reject any further reduction of exports to the United States, even if asked to do so by the Japanese government In an interview with the Japanese Broadcasting Ishihara said it would be impossible to keep U.S.-bound shipments in fiscal 1982, starting in April, Section Part II Reagan to review controllers firings pi unia ciuu uviutow.

'eppkz computer New manager goes to KCIK By CRAIG PHELON Times staff writer El Paso's Christian Television station KCIK has changed management, and it may be an initial phase of the station's sale. International Christian Television, the El Paso company that owns KCIK, Channel 14, has hired Virginia-based evangelist John Gi-menez as general manager while it continues negotiation for sale of the station with Gimen-ez's church. Gimenez, pastor of The Rock Church in Virginia Beach and a widely-known television evangelist, has replaced Alex Blomerth as general manager. Blomerth, KCIK's co-founder, said he remains on the station's board of directors, but v. ill devote iuubl of his time to Satellite Technology for Christ, a company that helps Christian television stations install satellite equipment.

"We are definitely moving toward an understanding with The Rock Church," Blomerth said. But he added that the hiring of Gimenez does not guarantee the sale will be completed. Blomerth said he doubts Gimenez plans to move to El Paso. Gimenez was hired to help the station with its financial problems, Don Orr, KCIK public relations director, said. "He has been hired primarily to come in as general manager-business consultant," Orr said.

"It gives him far-reaching authority to manage the station through the board." Blomerth and Orr said about $1.7 million had been promised as an investment in the station by an individual they declined to name, but they said the money has not yet been received. "We've been promised that money since June," Orr said. "If it comes in, I don't know (if it would affect the sale)." What WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, lamenting that he has become "estranged from labor." asked AFL-CIO leaders (or a fresh start Wednesday and promised, for his part, that he will review the mass firings of air traffic controllers. But despite the optimism expressed by union leaders over Reagan's remarks in an Oval Office meeting, a later written notice from the White House press office appeared to rule out any prospect that the 11,500 fired controllers would be brought back to their old jobs. With that, a union spokesman declared: "This puts us back to square one." According to the AFL-CIO contingent, including president Lane Kirk-land, Reagan promised a full review of the controllers issue.

The union officials said they took that to mean that not only might he lift the three-year ban on any other government employment for the fired strikers a prospect he raised a day earlier but that they might actually be returned to their old jobs. At first, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said that "there are no plans now to put them back in the towers." But he agreed that Reagan didn't rule that out, either. But later, in a written notice to the press, the White House said Reagan "is not considering rehiring these individuals as air traffic controllers." Rather, the notice said, the issue remains whether to lift the ban on any federal employment. Informed of that statement, AFL-CIO spokesman Rex Hardesty said the White House had "closed the door" on the federation's desire that the controllers be reinstated. "This puts us back to square one," he said.

Speakes quoted Reagan as telling the AFL-CIO leadership in an hour-long meeting that "I never anticipated I would be estranged from labor with all the years I put in as a union member. "This would be a good point for us to consider starting over. We need consultations to get this country moving again," Reagan was quoted as saying. A day earlier, Reagan told leaders of the Teamster union he was considering whether to lift a three-year ban on any federal employment for the air traffic strikers. are yrju waiting far? Christmas? you.

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The new government report said the average price of a new, single family home was $84,600 last month, compared with $84,700 in September and $77,700 in October 1980. The median price was $71,200 last month, up from $67,800 in WASHINGTON (AP) Sales of new single-family houses were up 15 percent last month after plunging to their lowest level on record in September, the government said Wednesday. Despite the increase, the new report said sales in October were still more than one-third off those a year ago. Michael Sumichrast, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, described last month's sales as still at a "very depressed level." But the October increase indicates that "we're reaching the bottom in sales," he said. "Any increase is a good increase, but it's still so low, it's bad," said Thomas Harter, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

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