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Approximately 65 to 70 per cent of the 49 stolen objects have been recovered. Roscoe said yesterday including a seventh-century Chinese glazed pottery horse valued at $150,000. The 30-pound, 23-inch-high horse was excavated from the grave of a Tsang emperor...
...that for the first time he could "foresee the possibility of Jews being massacred in the cities of America or in the forests of Europe" because of "a certain climate, a certain mood in the making." According to Author Cynthia Ozick, writing in Esquire, Israel's survival is in grave doubt, and with it Zionism and thus all Jews. "The Jews are one people... you cannot separate parent from child, the Jews from Zion...
...U.D.C. episode will cast a pall over the municipal bond market. The doubts raised by the U.D.C. crunch could have especially grave repercussions for the more than $6.3 billion of outstanding moral-obligation bonds is sued by similar public agencies in 30 states. Following the default, U.D.C. bond prices fell rapidly; some bonds sold for half their face value, and by week's end most other outstanding issues had fallen by more than $100 per $1,000 bond...
...though it is unlikely to do so, reacted immediately and bitterly to the Washington move. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi spoke out against "Pakistan's new belligerence," and at week's end visiting Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko joined with New Delhi in a communique ex pressing "grave anxiety at the actions taken by certain quarters to step up the arms race." Indian Foreign Minister Y.B. Chavan, who was scheduled to pre side with Kissinger over the first meeting of an Indo-U.S. Joint Commission that had been set up to improve ties, canceled...
...important estimates of the location and amount of OCS reserves are hopelessly inaccurate. There are no guarantees, at least in New England, that lower fuel costs will result from development off our shores. And there is no federal program compensating the states for the potentially grave social and environmental costs involved...