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...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...
What prompts three normally discrete politicians to leap to such rhetorical extremes? In large part the answer is patronage, a dragon each commissioner claims to have had a part in slaying...
...morning sun the helicopters come, flying at treetop level to avoid the treacherous downdrafts in Mexico's rugged, majestic Sierra Madre Occidental. A copter scarcely touches down before soldiers leap out, their Belgian FAL rifles at the ready. The troops belong to a 2,300-man special force drawn from the best units in the Mexican army. They are carrying out a mission, code-named "Operation Condor," that began last month. Their enemy is an empire where marijuana grows by the acre and the blood-red amapola poppy-the opium plant-flourishes...
Died. Marc Salinger, 28, eldest son of J.F.K. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger; in a leap from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the 587th person to take his own life thusly. A would-be actor and journalist, Salinger had reportedly felt periods of depression ever since Kennedy's assassination 13 years ago. Said a former neighbor in his Russian Hill apartment house: "Too many down things happened to that...
Geoff Stiles, with a winning 15-ft. leap in the pole vault, and Hasan Kayali, with a 45-ft. 3 3/4-in. victory in the triple jump, continued the hot field event work...