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Speculators hope that the price will exceed $1.45-and make their pennies worth more melted than as money...
...preparing a package of as yet unspecified "contingency spending plans" that would be used if the slump became long or deep. Meanwhile, Ash and other officials have been carefully leaking budget figures in advance to prepare the public and remove the sting of the first U.S. budget ever to exceed the $300 billion mark...
Early Beginning. Israel appeared ready not merely to obey the letter of the disengagement agreement but to exceed its requirements. The withdrawal from the west bank, which is supposed to take 28 days to complete, was actually begun two days early. At the same time, Israeli forces voluntarily handed back six wounded Egyptian prisoners captured since the October truce and made plans to return 89 other unwounded Egyptian P.O.W.s taken prisoner along the cease-fire lines...
...every day since the signing of the cease-fire agreement. During the past year, nearly 13,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and 2,150 civilians have been killed. According to Saigon, 44,850 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers also have died. The Vietnamese fatalities since the cease-fire exceed the total number of Americans killed in the course of the war (45,941). "What we have here," observed one of South Viet Nam's top military officers, "is simply a lesser degree of war. We're tired. We'd like to relax. But the question is whether...
...same day he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of income tax evasion (though his perquisites still include a Government-paid staff of six, a Secret Service detail and a limousine). Friends have been able to raise only $40,000 toward paying his legal bills, which may exceed $200,000. Last week, rejecting Agnew's plea "not to strip me of my means of livelihood," a three-judge panel appointed by the Maryland Court of Appeals unanimously agreed that Agnew should be disbarred. Said the court: "We see no extenuating circumstances allowing a lesser sanction." A final ruling...