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...early in the week fell to postwar lows against some other currencies, including the German mark, Swiss franc and Japanese yen. Just since the start of the year, the dollar has lost a stunning 15% of its value or even more in terms of some major foreign currencies (see chart above ). Although much of this decline was caused by the second formal devaluation in February, enough has occurred in recent weeks of free trading to lead French President Georges Pompidou to describe that drop, accurately, as constituting in effect "a third devaluation of the dollar." Though money trading is actually...
...Police began for the first time to publish weekly tabulations of thefts, assaults and other reported crimes throughout the University. They now send the report to over a hundred departments, officials and organizations in an effort to inform them of crime in the community. Eventually, the police hope to chart crime rates for successive years and comparable weeks during the years...
Hector Cámpora's first week as Argentina's new civilian President was marred by bloody rioting that left four dead and dozens wounded. Things have gone downhill since then. Despite his well-meaning efforts to chart a moderate direction for his new Peronist government, Cámpora now seems to be on a collision course with the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), 30,000 Trotskyite terrorists who are responsible for most of Argentina's recent wave of kidnapings and murders...
...from their peak of 2,500,000 in January. The number of new building permits issued across the nation-an indicator of how many starts will be recorded in future months -took an even sharper fall of 18%, to an annual rate of 1,800,000 units (see chart). That was the biggest monthly drop since the Government began tabulating figures on permits more than 80 years ago. "The widely predicted end of the housing boom of 1971-72 has finally arrived," declares George A. Christie, chief economist of McGraw-Hill's Dodge division, which compiles construction statistics...
...marshal has nothing to fear, the astrologer assured me, pointing to the long bars in the chart. Lon Nol has a "good spirit" protecting him, and will rule for five years. The Vietnamese will be out of Cambodia by the end of 1973, and peace will come soon after. The marshal should not leave the country during 1973, but he may travel safely in 1974, especially in June and September, his good months...