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INDUSTRIAL POWER. Because the potential for savings varies from plant to plant, there could be no hard guideline, but federal experts estimate that industry could reduce consumption by a minimum of 15%, saving as much as 300,000 bbl. a day. Example: exhaust heat from gas-fired turbines could be used instead of oil to process sulfur. Using coal instead of oil in power generators and factory boilers could save a further...
Jeffrey Olsen, 26, had busted out of a minimum security federal prison in Minnesota, but when he was caught and put on trial for unlawfully leaving prison, his lawyer explained that he was not legally guilty. Olsen had acted under duress, said Duluth Attorney Robert Kaner, because he feared that he would be homosexually raped. The Government conceded that homosexuality certainly existed in the prison, and Olsen's bunkmate, who was admittedly gay, testified to having brawled with another homosexual just before Olsen fled...
...voted for the resurgent Liberal Party. Largely because of Jeremy Thorpe's vibrant personality, the Liberals appeal to voters who are turned off by the leadership of both major parties. The Liberals are committed to mandatory wage and price controls. Yet they also call for increases in the minimum wage and pensions-measures that would probably add to inflation. Although Thorpe's party will emerge from the elections a distant third, it could garner enough seats to deprive either major party of a majority. The Liberals might then be wooed as partners in a coalition government...
...that an unemployment rate of around 10% and, as one foreign ambassador in Santiago puts it, "there is no way they can have avoided real hunger in the poblaciones [shantytowns] this winter." To ease the pressure on the poor, Pinochet last week announced a 23% hike in the minimum wage and regular wage adjustments every quarter, based on the consumer price index...
...money alone makes it a unique event. For trading punches next week, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali each stand to collect a minimum of $5 million-the biggest payday in the history of sport. If the fight goes 15 rounds, they will have earned $110,000 per minute per man. In addition to guaranteeing their wages, the government of Zaïre has put up another $12 million for the combatants' expenses and to doll up the capital city of Kinshasa...