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...best that the world's governments can promise their citizens is that inflation later this year will abate somewhat?maybe. In the U.S., for example, the Nixon Administration is predicting that inflation will slow to 5% to 6% by year's end, with the best of breaks: a letup in consumer demand caused by a business slowdown, a record crop this fall and an easing in petroleum prices. Even that less than comforting scenario, and similar ones projected in other nations, could go awry if labor unions force fat settlements. In the U.S., AFL-CIO President George Meany and other...
...Nhut, located in Saigon. He orders as many as 80 air strikes a day in Tay Ninh and Binh Long provinces north of Saigon near the Cambodian border, where the Communists are believed to have heavy equipment. Throughout South Viet Nam, Thieu's artillery thud away with out letup. "The South Vietnamese are unloading ship after ship of 105-mm. and 155-mm. artillery shells," says an ICCS member in Danang. "And God knows they need it. They shoot off that much on Sundays alone...
Many of the Reyes Pruneda gangsters are believed to be hiding in the hill country not far from Monterrey. Nonetheless there is little sign of a letup in the killings. Just eight weeks ago, for instance, a Mexican customs official seized a trailer van full of household appliances and color television sets that had been stolen in the U.S. and were being smuggled into Mexico-a lucrative return cargo for the men who smuggle drugs the other way. The customs official made the mistake of allowing the local newspaper to run his photograph. Two days later he was machine-gunned...
...present American effort is in bombing, though Nixon was careful to note at his press conference last week that South Viet Nam's air force is now flying 40% of its tactical air sorties over the South. Even so, Nixon insisted that there would be no letup in bombing North Viet Nam or in mining its harbors without a settlement of the war. Speaking of his dealing with Communist leaders, he said: "I find that making a bargain with them is not easy. You get something from them only when you have something they want to get from...
...Saigon, the U.S. command grimly foresaw "an all-out effort" that could run through the monsoon season that usually begins later this month -possibly on a reduced scale-and then be stepped up well before the U.S. elections and continue on into the new year. Certainly there was no letup in the Communist attacks, which by now were taking on a grimly familiar pattern. Each time the thinly spread South Vietnamese forces shifted troops from one location to bolster defenses in another, a weak spot was exposed-and the North Vietnamese pounced...