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...ransom money, chiefly from big business concerns. Some multinational corporations, such as Coca-Cola and Otis Elevator, have evacuated their executives. The economy is blighted. Between January and May, the cost of living had risen 67%; though emergency measures have arrested the climb for the moment, inflation remains a specter. Beef exports, the biggest source of income, have slumped despite the fact that world markets are begging for meat...
...opposition plot fails to reckon with the virtually certain response of Allende's dedicated proletarian supporters. The 1.4 million members of the General Confederation of Workers and other Allende partisans would undoubtedly mount a general strike and take to the barricades on behalf of their leader. The specter of civil war would most likely bring in its wake a military coup...
Nearly a decade has passed since John Kennedy was slain in Dallas, but the specter of assassination still haunts the presidency, and above all those charged with its protection. Though most of the 300 threats received by President Nixon each year are from cranks, all are regarded as serious until investigated and proved otherwise. Just how serious was demonstrated last week in New Orleans when, because of two alleged plots, President Nixon's planned open-car motorcade down bustling Canal Street was abruptly canceled on the recommendation of the Secret Service. One cause for suspicion focused on a group...
...freeze-exempt feed grains keeps rising, poultry farmers cut their losses by systematically gassing, drowning and suffocating a million baby chicks and selling their egg-laying hens. Other farmers sent pregnant sows to the slaughterhouse and dispatched old milk cows to hamburger heaven. These tactics raise a two-headed specter of shortages and higher prices for milk, eggs and meat in the next few months...
...cache of newly discovered photographs, handed down by a friend of one of the Czarina's ladies in waiting, includes one of Czar Nicholas II, canoeing with his son, Czarevich Alexis, and another of the Czar's two youngest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia. The specter of their Romanov majesties was also unexpectedly raised in London by Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe...