He said there would be a 5 percent cutback in the use of oil and an unspecified increase in the price of gas.

The proposal calls for an as-yet unspecified increase in the percentage paid by insurers and a hundredfold rise, to $500 million, in the amount that puts the program into effect.

Prime Minister Azeddine Laraki, in a statement to Parliament, pledged unspecified increases in salaries and social benefits.

Only weeks ago, an increase in the minimim wage looked likely after Vice President Bush endorsed an unspecified increase.

He offered only a few new programs - an unspecified increase in the minimum wage, an increased effort to identify illegal immigrants, a campaign against teen-age pregnancy, an incremental approach to health-care reform.

They also suggested an unspecified increase in the Federal minimum wage of $3.35 an hour.

Republicans favor a smaller and as yet unspecified increase but so far lack the Senate votes to secure it.

BILL CLINTON is maybe, sort of, leaning in favor of an unspecified increase in the minimum wage.

EDUCATION Favors significant but unspecified increases in Government money for student-loan programs.

Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York, for example, after years of refusing to do so, has just called for an unspecified increase in the state's gasoline tax.