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...proposal by the state Department of Public Works (DPW) for the Preferred Alternative Alewife Highway Plan would establish a four-lane elevated parkway, two multi-lane frontage roads, and numerous traffic lights near the intersection of Route 2 and Route 16 to "improve access to the Alewife 'T'-station and to improve access to development in the Alewife area," said District 4 Traffic Engineer Constance J. Raphael...
...Khmer Rouge broadcast said resistance forces lobbed five grenades Saturday into the center of Phnom Penh near the office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, killing or wounding some Vietnamese and "lackey puppets...
Another broadcast said the guerrillas attacked the city and suburbs with 32 grenades and plastic explosives, killing or wounding some Vietnamese soldiers and others who were drinking near ahotel. Vietnamese secret agents and Cambodianpolicemen were killed in the suburbs, thebroadcast said...
...Thus the near future contains more questions than answers. Will the National Salvation Front win popular loyalty in spite of its domination by communists? Will the army lose patience with squabbling civilians and simply take over? Can peace be restored so that Rumanians can cooperate in constructing a freer political system? Does democracy stand a chance...
Consumers felt the pinch almost at once as some wholesale vegetable prices tripled. Orange-juice prices were unlikely to rise anywhere near as much, thanks to a large crop in Brazil and normal production in California and Mexico, which escaped the freeze. Nonetheless, traders on the New York Cotton Exchange last week drove the price of a futures contract for January delivery of frozen orange-juice concentrate to $1.61 per lb., up more than 25% in two weeks...