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...rate of 10%, will be slowed in the second half of the year-unless wage settlements in labor negotiations get out of hand. Last week the Labor Department released two figures that strongly buttressed the Administration view. Wholesale prices rose in May by only .4%, the smallest rise in nine months and less than half the 1.1% rise in April. At the same time, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.9% in May from April's 7%, the lowest level since November 1974 and a heartening decline from January's 7.3% figure...
Spit of Land. The West Bank Arabs fear that a decade of occupation could turn into permanent possession and continued encroachment by Jewish settlers. Since 1967, 45 communities (nine of them Jerusalem suburbs built on Arab land) have been created on the West Bank-in violation of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which states that an "occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." To West Bankers, the settlements are not only permanent, but they are also designed to surround and isolate the major Arab centers of population. Example...
Comprising nine sections with 173 articles, the draft of the new constitution, the Soviet Union's fourth, will be discussed in factories, collective farms, offices and schools all over the U.S.S.R. Possibly in a slightly altered form, but without substantive changes, the text will almost certainly be approved by the Supreme Soviet, the nation's rubber-stamp parliament, in time for the 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution next November...
...Bernardin Gantin, 55, of Benin, pro-president of the Vatican's Justice and Peace Commission, who becomes one of nine African cardinals...
Freelance Writer George Crile III interested Moyers in the CIA'S secret army after he had done two years of research in and around Little Havana, the home in Miami of 500,000 Cubans. Moyers then worked with Crile for nine more months. The documentary makes no moral judgments. "I wasn't so much trying to tell the viewer anything as to illustrate the process of Government," says Moyers. "I remember how when I was in Washington we raced into decisions, heedless of cause and effect...