OTHER NEWS - Aug. 5, 1992

Japanese Capital Investment to Be Flat: Corporate capital investment is not expected to increase in 1992, the first year without growth since the government began keeping track in 1981, Japan’s Economic Planning Agency said. It said a survey showed that investment in plant and equipment at 4,386 top companies will total $400.46 billion, unchanged from last year. Capital investment has grown every year since the agency began the survey in 1981, with the smallest increase--0.6%--coming in 1983.