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...dropped from 12% in 1974 to 3.7% in March; that may have been a fluke, but Eckstein expects it to average 4% to 6% for all of 1976. Sprinkel, however, is concerned that a stepped-up recovery would send inflation up again in 1977, forcing the Goveminent to crack down on demand; that would cause production to fall and unemployment to rise once more...
...students entering college-level institutions must be cleared politically by the Internal Security Department. Nevertheless the Singapore government recently found it necessary to crack down on the leadership of the University of Singapore Students' Union which had become active in supporting popular causes, such as opposing increases in bus fares and labor retrenchment...
...since Harvard does not get another crack at the Quakers and must rely on weaker teams to beat them, the Crimson's chances seem strictly mathematics...
...Baath Party and to its secretary-generalship. That should give him a relatively free hand to pursue his policies-if only he can keep harmony within his own family. His brother, Lieut. Colonel Rifaat Assad, 34, who was elected for the first time to the National Command, directs the crack 30,000-man "Defense Phalanx" guarding Damascus. A nephew commands the army's "Struggle Brigade" within the Phalanx, a brother-in-law the 20,000-man special forces, and a cousin the paratroop "Thunder Brigade...
Frequently, Connors adds, his tensions produce unintentional outbursts. "I'm hot, I'm thirsty, I'm tired, and I hear people yelling at me, and I crack. I'm so intense and tightly strung I sometimes don't know what I'm doing. Afterward I have to laugh at myself...