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...previous stronghold, the Northeast, Carter leads 47 to 39. In the West, where Carter failed to carry a single state against Gerald Ford in 1976 and where Kennedy has been strong, Carter is ahead 49 to 35. At the same time, Jerry Brown has virtually been pushed off the board as a serious presidential candidate. Carter leads him 71 to 16 nation wide...
Meanwhile, Byrne, the Chicago school board and state officials were scrambling to put together an emergency loan package to keep the schools from collapsing. Shut out of the bond market in November because of a poor rating, the educational system faces a shortfall of $459 million by the end of the fiscal year on Aug. 31, 1980. It needs $190 million just to keep going through January...
...Board of Economists expects the cost of living index, which has been rising at a 13% rate for months, will be going up at a pace of 9% or a bit more next December. The economists admit, however, that they and almost all the other experts have grossly underestimated inflation's staying power in the past several years. Cracks Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc.: "I have been predicting the inflation rate for maybe 20 years, and I must have got it right about three times...
...skilled, untrained workers will be let go and let down. Unemployment, which dropped slightly last month to 5.8%, is expected to rise to 7.7% by the final quarter of 1980. That will be not nearly as severe as the recent peak of 9% in May 1975. Most board members agree that unemployment will hit a high around Election Day in November, which will hurt Jimmy Carter, and that the jobless rate again will start declining as the economy picks up at year's end. However, one member, Consultant David Grove, who has long been pessimistic about the job situation...
...turns out, it is the latest sign that John Paul's Vatican is determined to crack down on divisive interpretations of doctrine. Evidence of division is plentiful. Just before the hearing, Schillebeeckx won a ringing endorsement from The Netherlands' Primate, Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, who sits on the board of the doctrinal congregation. Dutch theological students joined the campaign, rounding up more than 60,000 signatures for a petition taken to the Vatican as the hearing began. Willebrands will be back in Rome with his bishops in January for an unprecedented meeting with the Pope aimed at bringing order...