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DIED. ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, 84, Greek poet and 1979 Nobel laureate best known for The Axion Esti (Worthy It Is, 1959), an epic that wedded a modern sensibility to Greek history; in Athens...
...called Amerasian children to the U.S. over three years. "Because of their undisputed ties to our country, these children and family members are of particular humanitarian concern to the United States," Shultz told a Senate judiciary subcommittee on refugees. He also asked that American doors be opened for an esti mated 10,000 to 15,000 political prisoners who aided the U.S. ef ort in South Viet Nam. The Secretary's recommendation called for a ceiling of 50,000 refugees a year from all of East Asia. In the past two years, 3,300 Vietnamese immigrated to America; currently...
After the December slaughter, Washington retracted its planned $1.5 million in aid and The Netherlands withdrew its subsidy, which amounted to a fourth of Suriname's budget. Unemployment now runs at around 10%, and the country's esti mated foreign reserves of $120 million are falling rapidly. Moreover, as head of the country's angry exile community (180,000 in The Netherlands alone), former Prime Minister Henk Chin A Sen is mobilizing diplomatic support from his bases in The Netherlands and the U.S. Last week he published Horb's eyewitness account of the executions. Bouterse...
Though no one can know exactly how big the bonanza might be, computers are at work printing out projections. American Express Bank esti mates that $25 oil would lift G.N.P. growth in the 24 industrial nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from the 1½% currently projected for this year to 2¼%. That would result in additional production of goods and services worth $55 billion. At the same time, inflation could slow from the expected 6¾% to 5¾%, and that would help lower interest rates...
...Northern Indiana Public Service Co. in August permanently scrapped plans for its big Bailly plant. The esti-'"mated cost of the facility had multiplied almost ten times, from $ 187 million when first proposed in 1970 to $1.8 billion, but the big objection was the site. The installation is 30 miles from Chicago's Loop and 6½ miles from Gary, Ind., closer to major population centers than anyone now thinks wise...