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...Ohio, the state's largest utility, Ohio Edison, has been staying just above a 30-day coal supply. At that cutoff point, a mandatory 50% power cutback would be required, affecting General Motors and Chrysler plants and perhaps thousands of jobs. Last week officials were importing up to 35% of their power from Minnesota, New Jersey and other states...
...with another man. In her new quarters, she shared a bedroom, cooked meals, did the wash and shared household expenses. Her former husband soon stopped the alimony, contending he was legally justified because she was "habitually living with another man and holding herself out as his wife," grounds for cutoff under state law. In a 5-to-2 decision last week, New York's highest court disagreed. The law provides a two-part test, the Court of Appeals majority held, and even though she lived with the other man, she had never suggested to anyone that they were married...
Turkey's latest political crisis interrupted negotiations with officials of the International Monetary Fund, who were seeking to help avert national bankruptcy -including a threatened cutoff of credit for petroleum shipments from Libya and Iraq; IMF officials tired of cooling their heels during the crisis and returned to the U.S. to await the organization of Ecevit's government. Currently, Turkey's inflation is 35%, and unemployment is a huge 20% of the labor force. The nation is also gripped by political terrorism involving extremists of both the left and the right -the latter thought to be encouraged...
...month passed. Silence. Then came a computer printout from HEW, reminding Sears to return the form and once more threatening a cutoff of funds. Beckwith again wrote to explain why he had not filled out the form. On Dec. 2, a HEW secretary phoned him to repeat the warning. Her call was followed by one from a HEW attorney, who expressed regret at "the sequence of events" but told Beckwith that HEW would nevertheless cite his school for failure to complete the form...
...against Pretoria-a step that would have caused real damage not only to South Africa but also to the Western powers and many smaller nations that trade with it. In the end, the African members settled for a permanent arms embargo. The Western members had wanted a six-month cutoff provision in the measure, to give the South Africans an inducement to ease up on apartheid and repression, but they decided to accept the permanent embargo. "This will assuage us," remarked Ghana's ambassador, Frank Boaten, "but only for a while...