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...hold down domestic prices, the Department of Energy urged oil companies not to buy crude on the spot market, where prices are up to $12 higher than the world average of $18 per bbl. There is some debate among oilmen over the degree to which this policy affected supplies. In any event, because of a change in DOE policy last week, the companies are now free to buy on the spot market, though several of them are reluctant to do so until the Government assures them that they can pass the extra costs on to consumers...
...cost of peace for both countries thus appears to be higher than anyone had anticipated in either Cairo or Jerusalem-or Washington. "The hostility toward the treaty is more intense than I expected," admits Middle East Envoy Robert S Strauss. But optimists on both sides emphasized the hope that if peace goes forward successfully, the immense military budgets can eventually be reduced. "When we speak about the cost of peace," says an Israeli banking official, "we cannot forget the cost of war." For the present, the "caravan" of the peace process was still advancing: this weekend both Egypt...
...Portillo, too, sought political advantage from Castro's visit. With elections set for July 1, he wants to appeal to leftists and labor union members, who are clamoring for higher wages to offset Mexico's soaring inflation rate. Among the prominent people he invited to welcome Castro were the heads of four leftist political parties, including the Communists...
...furious Murty appealed the bankruptcy decision to a higher court and won a verdict under which the receivers returned to him just under $400,000-less than half of what he had paid. But the court did not definitively settle the question of the ownership of the horses. Murty took his case to an even higher court, and has just proffered a bid for the horses that is more than $200,000 higher than the Aga Khan's latest offer, $1.5 million...
...Unemployment will climb from 5.8% now to a peak of 7.3%, or perhaps higher, by the second quarter...