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...Interior, announced termination of the helium contracts within 60 days. But three of the contractors obtained a federal court order forcing the Government to continue buying helium "until further notice." Last week the Government appealed the decision. But until the case is tried, it must keep on squirting excess helium into that big hole in the ground in Texas-and pumping dollars into the developers' pockets...
...when he served in the Army, he says, the average ratio was one colonel for every 3,000 men. Mansfield's point is that the U.S. military in Europe has grown top-heavy. "It is my conviction," he says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could be accomplished just as readily with...
...four countries was to use upward currency movement to get rid of excess dollars, which were aggravating problems of domestic inflation...
...excess of 1300 people have been arrested since April 21 in connection with antiwar demonstrations...
...G.N.P. price index rose at an annual rate of 5.2% in the first quarter v. 5.9% in last year's fourth quarter. Last week President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers condemned the 13% wage increase recently won by steelworkers in the can industry as "clearly in excess of" productivity gains. The council warned that any such settlement granted to workers in the steel industry at large during this summer's negotiations could be ruinous to the industry's competitive position abroad. This was the first CEA "inflation alert" that sought to influence a pending contract...