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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...almost daily drumbeat of dismal news about falling production and growing unemployment made a turn toward more stimulus of the economy unavoidable. As car sales continued to skid, Detroit announced plans for more production cutbacks; that will add substantially to the 205,000 auto workers -about 25% of the auto-industry labor force-already idled and further bloat the nation's jobless rate, which is expected to swell to as much as 8% next year from its present 6.5%. According to a forecast issued by the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development last week, the U.S. will...
...houses in the village of Majdal al Zoun and taking Lebanese prisoners back to Israel with them. Hours later, the fedayeen retaliated by staging a rocket and grenade attack on an Israeli border kibbutz in eastern Galilee. At week's end, a terrorist bomb exploded in a police car in downtown Jerusalem, wounding 13 people...
...life in recent months. She insists that the timing was pure coincidence, while allowing that it was a "jolly inconvenient" time in the light of subsequent events. In any case, she did have ample reason to take out extra life insurance on her husband. Last summer Stonehouse's car was blown up by one bomb and another was found in a house adjoining theirs in London...
...changed their life-styles only mildly. Bernstein bought a cooperative apartment in a decayed Northwest Washington neighborhood, lent a friend money for a down payment on a house, and bought a closetful of expensive clothes ("which he wears badly," sighs one acquaintance). Bernstein still does not own a car, and he crashed in a rented auto two months ago. He broke two ribs, contracted a mild case of pleurisy and put on a quick 15 Ibs. because of enforced inaction while recuperating. Friends describe him as inhibited by his Watergate-related publicity and irritated at no longer being able...
Hooded Prince. Angry figures emerged from the damaged Alfa. Waving pistols, they threatened to fire unless the prince got out of the car. Unimpressed by the threat, Alfredo slammed the Fiat into reverse-only to smash into a second Alfa that the kidnapers had brought along as their backup car. Finally, two of the gunmen forced the prince into the less damaged of the two Alfas. Although he was hooded, D'Angerio could tell that they were going too fast, and he yelled at them to slow down. They refused and, unable to spot a curve because...