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...price guidelines. Committee Chairman Wright Patman favors a stern program that would roll back rents to the levels of Jan. 10 (the last day of Phase II), freeze prices and interest rates across the board for 60 days at the levels of March 16, and then give way to stringent controls...
...Banquo's ghost, inflation continues to haunt the nation-and the Nixon Administration. Frightened by that specter, housewives are organizing a nationwide boycott of meat counters, union chieftains are threatening to press for fat wage raises, and Congressmen are calling for a return to the stringent controls that existed until January. From the very moment that President Nixon loosened those controls, Democratic politicians and economists warned that Phase Ill's anti-inflation forces were simply too weak. Last week, when results of the first full month of Phase III were reported in Washington, their predictions turned...
...executives at a COLC hearing that the Government might roll back recent increases in the cost of home heating oil. Since mid-January, these prices have gone up as much as 9%. Oil executives say that the increases are a consequence of rising demand, dwindling energy supplies and increasingly stringent environmental regulations that have shifted consumption to low-sulfur oil. The COLC has asked oil companies to submit data this week justifying the price increases...
...tactics of Black September. Yasser Arafat, eulogizing the dead Hussein Al Bashir, swore revenge "not on Cyprus, not in Israel and not in the occupied territories." That meant retaliation could come anywhere in the broadening battle of the spooks. Israeli officials are warning citizens abroad to take even more stringent security precautions than usual...
...beginning of a new era in...complete, concise and informative food labeling." Large food producers have not yet offered any serious objections. But manufacturers of vitamins and dietary supplements are upset by the FDA'S decision to label their products as drugs. That change will subject them to stringent testing for safety and efficacy...