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...backlash against indexation is beginning to develop. Says Jo Anna Gray, a Federal Reserve economist: "Indexation only aggravates the type of inflation we now suffer." As salaries increase to meet prices, firms raise their prices again to pay for the higher wages. The end result is that cost of living adjustments create a perpetual inflation machine...
...Jo the new equation was ambitious Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi, 46. Before, he had persistently refused to join any alliance that did not also include Enrico Berlinguer's Communists. When the Christian Democrats last month ruled out any such deala reflection of stiffening anti-Communist public opinion in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistanthe Socialists withdrew their tepid support of Cossiga's minority government. Since then, however, Craxi has decided to switch rather than fight: exploiting a tilt to the right in his own party, he persuaded his central committee to back...
...leadership that Tito put in place has been functioning smoothly and appears to be proving itself capable of running the country without him. Among ordinary Yugoslavs today, concern persists, but the tension of the first days of Tito's final illness has given way to stoical acceptance. Said Jože Smole, Tito's former personal secretary and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists: "We have very deep emotional ties with Tito, who is the symbol of Yugoslavia. But we do not expect something that will go against the law of nature...
...Jo Anne Preston, section leader for Nat Sci 150, said that she and several class members are investigating the use of DES as a `morning after' pill at University Health Services (UHS). She added that she plans to meet with the directors of UHS in early April...
Kennedy got an ugly reminder of this hostility last week during a brief side trip to Birmingham, Ala. Hecklers there repeatedly interrupted his speech, jeering "You're a murderer" and waved signs that asked HOW CAN YOU RESCUE THE COUNTRY WHEN YOU COULDN'T RESCUE MARY JO? When Kennedy said that he favored handgun registration in part because "my family has been touched by violence," the hecklers cheered and applauded...