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...Japan and will be accelerated further by the oil increase. But in the other six summit countries, unlike the U.S., economic growth has been showing signs of revival this year. Now output and employment will inevitably slow as petroleum prices soar. How bad will the recession that has apparently begun in the U.S. become? That depends heavily on whether OPEC can somehow be persuaded to stop the price spiral at its present point...
...become a commonplace that America has scarcely begun to conserve. Small, voluntary steps can add up to major savings. A driver can save about 5% of the gas he normally uses by keeping his tires properly inflated and another 10% by keeping his engine in tune. A householder can save 15% on his heating bill, and 7.5% on his air-conditioning bill, simply by keeping his storm windows on all year...
Sealed inside his bunker, Somoza seems unperturbed by that prospect or by the growing bitterness of the civil war. Both sides have begun summary executions of captured opponents or suspected informers. Missionaries picking through the rubble in Managua last week discovered the bodies of ten young men. They had been bound, tortured and mutilated by national guardsmen, the missionaries said...
There are some signs that the gold-rush days may be over. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 15%; labor shortages and urban congestion have become major problems. Although the government has begun a stabilization program to redress imbalances and control inflation, an economic downswing could spell trouble for Park, who until now has deflected political dissent by producing prosperity...
Harvard students have begun to clean up debris from yards and basements of ten Harvard-owned properties on Flagg and Harvard students working-for the Hunneman Real Estate Co., the University's realtor, are cleaning out trash and installing fire extinguishers and smoke and heat detectors in occupied buildings, many of which Harvard has not inspected for years, Sally Zeckhauser, acting director of real estate, said yesterday...