Word: dec
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Many militant farmers warn they will launch a nationwide strike on Dec. 14 unless Government price supports are raised substantially. They are threatening to stop selling their crops and stop buying supplies and equipment. Says Bud Bitner, a Colorado farmer who helped organize the protest, which is concentrated in such wheat-belt states as Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and the Dakotas: "We're not trying to shut off the food supply of the nation. We're trying to get a reasonable price...
...Norwegians were prepared. An alliance of newspapers and civic groups had already begun a campaign for a "People's Peace Prize," which eventually collected $324,000 in donations. The sum was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the Roman Catholic "peace women" of Belfast (TIME, Dec. 13) who had stirred the world with their pleas for an end to sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland...
Some shocking details of Hughes' hidden years leaked out earlier (TIME cover, Dec. 13). Now new evidence, taken in the Los Angeles Superior Court in cases to determine Hughes' legal residence, is becoming public-and it only confirms and elaborates the worst suspicions about his decline and death. According to sworn testimony from his personal aides and doctors, Howard Hughes became addicted to the tranquilizer Valium. As a total recluse living in a series of penthouse hideaways, he popped large-dosage 10-mg. blue tablets, which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers...
...backdated three checks in early Jan. 1977 in order to obtain improper tax deductions on his 1976 income tax returns. The Budget Director cited headlines linking him to tax fraud on the basis of Percy's statements. Lance convincingly explained that he had written the three checks on Dec. 31, 1976, as dated, but held them until the proceeds from a $250,000 sale of stock on Dec. 30, 1976, had been deposited in his bank. Moreover, he said, the three checks, involving interest payments on loans, had not been deducted on his 1976 tax return. "The knowledge...
...Belgrade meeting decided that 1) a thorough review of how states have respected the accord, including its human rights provision, would be the first item discussed, 2) the fall session would have decision-making powers, and 3) the conference would open Oct. 4 and run until Dec. 22. If the drafting of a report is not completed by then, the conference will reconvene for an extra month...