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...election, the money supply was increased by an astonishing 23%. At one point, the government's indebtedness totaled $1.5 billion. Marcos is faced with paying the bills. Hoping to fend off devaluation of the peso and improve a costly payments imbalance, Marcos has imposed import taxes so stiff that the price of a legally imported $3,000 car has risen to $20,000. Government spending has been slashed, and old loans are desperately being renegotiated. Sizable short-term loans are being sought abroad...
...Diamond will receive stiff competition in the dash from Bruin captain Greg Ouellette, and the Crimson's top hurdler, Walter Johnson, should run almost evenly with Brown's Bill Robbins...
...bill now goes to the floor of both houses of the legislature, where it will undoubtedly face a stiff fight. Last night, a Harvard Administration source expressed surprise at the quick action by the committee and said, "We'll have to do some hard work on this one, because quite a few of our so-called friends in the legislature are not friends on the Stadium issue...
Students have maintained faith in the government because in the past President Tito has been responsive. In an unprecedented TV address after the June confrontation, he sided withthe demonstrators. He was under stiff pressure to call in army troops when the police proved inadequate. Instead, Tito said the students were right in their demands for eliminating employment discrimination against youth, bureaucratic factory management, and archaic academic practices. He also proposed reforms and laws to institute these intentions...
...winter; that is the time to take them, hunters say. In the middle distance, a house burns out. Neighbors come running with buckets and ladders, trying to help. However, the whole earth is cold, like a dead body in its winding sheet of snow. The water mill hangs stiff with icicles. The rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots on her head hurries across a bridge (see detail, page 53). Upon the ice, the polished green crust of earth's secret blood, some skate, others spin tops, and still others play at curling...