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Just about every economic figure released last week heightened the national anxiety. Producer (i.e., wholesale) prices jumped in February at a compound annual rate of 19.6%. That was a bit less than the January rise, but still an enormous increase, and it occurred despite a drop in food prices that is very unlikely to continue. The figures for January and February taken together, said W. John Layng, assistant commissioner in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "indicate that price pressure may be accelerating...
...Dominican Republic; the handmade red-white-and-blue flag flying outside the building was that of a Colombian revolutionary group called M-19, for April 19 Movement. More than a dozen of their masked and armed guerrillas, including at least four women, remained in full control of the compound they seized almost two weeks ago in a gunfight during an Independence Day reception given by the Dominican Ambassador. They had a bonanza of prisoners: more than a score of diplomats from 18 countries, including the papal nuncio; Washington's respected Spanish-born envoy, Diego Asencio, 48, and 13 other ambassadors...
...embassy compound, the militants seemed bitter and uncommunicative, especially as to why they had suddenly reversed themselves. Presumably they were waiting for Khomeini to endorse their actions, as he had done in the past. On Friday they demanded the right to address the Iranian people on radio and television, a privilege they enjoyed in the early days of the embassy siege. They also declared that, whatever happens to the hostages, the embassy compound had become their "home," and they would not leave it-nor would they surrender the embassy files...
...exchange, Colombian Red Cross volunteers carted 20 crates of food and supplies into the embassy compound and sent in doctors to treat a wounded woman guerrilla. At week's end the remain ing five women hostages were freed by the terrorists. The way was thus paved for negotiations over the release of the hostages left behind...
...Administration's scramble to re-tune its policy began almost from the moment that Carter first received his routine advance copy of the Labor Department's latest Consumer Price Index data on Feb. 21. As expected, January's 1.4% increase, or a compound annual growth of 18.2%, was the steepest of any month since August 1973. The figure made plain enough what White House Economic Advisers Charles Schultze and Alfred Kahn had been warning about since well before Christmas: rising oil prices, higher interest rates and a frantic "buy it now before it costs more" inflation psychology...