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Neither side is certain which way the votes will fall in a battle of the old and the new politics-the faintly mod liberal Republican against the gladhanding, bread-and-butter Democrat. Washington is normally Democratic, which gives Rosellini an advantage in his effort to justify his Seattle telephone-directory business listing: "Albert D. Rosellini, Gov atty...
Downes has been emphasizing what he calls "bread-and-butter" issues. He wants to see a system of portable pensions instituted in the state, which would guarantee that a person could hold several jobs in his lifetime but not end up with just "a watch and a hand-shake...
...Allende or the Chilean economy. Inflation for the first nine months of this year is a staggering 99.8% . The price of sirloin steak, on the rare occasions it has been available, has increased 200% ; stew beef is up 116%, powdered milk 166%. Wheat and bread are in short supply. Butter has disappeared. But real hunger threatened only momentarily when food stores closed in a strike two weeks ago, until the army ordered them to reopen...
...person's sympathy without helping to elect conservative Republicans, which would be the major result of third-party efforts which were very successful. IN OTHER WORDS, IT ALLOWS YOU TO WORK FOR A LONG-TERM CHANGE IN WORKING CLASS IDEOLOGY WITHOUT DOING DAMAGE TO THE SHORT RUN, BREAD AND BUTTER ISSUES SO RIGHTFULLY OF CONCERN TO THE MIDDLE AMERICAN OF BLUE AND WHITE COLLAR...
After almost two years in power -the anniversary will be on Nov. 3 -Allende presides over an increasingly angry country that is sinking ever deeper into economic quicksand. Everything from beef to butter and matches to auto parts is in short supply. Inflation has spiraled 63.5% during the past eight months; in August alone, the inflation rate was 22.7%, and the price of food soared an estimated 60%. The reason: in an effort to buy political support, the government increased the money supply by 115% last year, and is doing the same in 1972. The black-market rate for escudos...