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...last year's 26 letter winners were freshmen or sophomores. Last season's kiddie corps is now back with a year's experience, two veterans who took last year off came back this spring to win starting jobs, and coach Bob Scalise has attracted the school's best crop of freshmen in years...
...more time running than fighting. Reports TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich: "Some government patrols go for ten months without spotting a single guerrillero. But the killing goes on. Sources close to the National Guard say that the soldiers' orders are to 'clean out the hills.' The latest crop of guerrillas may be dead or in hiding, but 'this time the government wants to be sure that no new guerrilla base area will rise again. They intend to eliminate the peasants...
...galloping epidemic of inflation jitters has spread through the economy in recent weeks. Public fears of runaway prices have been stirred by the recent leap in fuel, food and other living costs caused by the winter's bitter cold and crop-killing drought in the West. Businessmen and investors also worry about the back-to-back budget deficits (totaling $125 billion this year and in fiscal 1978) that President Carter has estimated as one result of his program to stimulate the economy. Irwin L. Kellner, vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust, fears a return to consistent double-digit inflation...
...Midwest's dry period presents at least an equal threat of disaster. The danger is twofold: a lack of moisture to nourish either the winter wheat crop, already in the ground, or the crop scheduled to be planted in the spring, and the massive soil erosion almost certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed...
Normally, Orland's three reservoirs contain 140,000 acre-feet of water; now they are down to 5,000 acre-feet. Instead of the usual 18 crop irrigations per season, there will only be one this year. Farms have suffered more than $3 million in losses, and farmers' incomes have been cut by one-half to two-thirds. The town's businesses, which depend on agriculture, are down 40% in sales. Twenty-seven of 58 grade AAA dairymen have sold out and left the community. If the orchards do not get sufficient water by spring, the remaining...