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...across the country, from the aging industrial centers of the Northeast to the suburban sprawl of the Southwest, pink unemployment notification slips are beginning to turn up in pay envelopes. When blue-collar employees get the news, employers normally say that those being laid off are made "redundant." But when announcements of wholesale dismissals of excutives are made, the gentler euphemism of "furloughing" is usually used...
Though most of the damage will probably be concentrated in the older industrial areas of the Northeast and Midwest, much as in 1975, the slump is likely to hit all areas of the nation. Sagging housing starts are being felt in furniture and textile factories throughout the South, and the Northwest's aerospace industry will be only as strong as its airline customers...
...This committee is an important step toward making Cambridge the first city in the Northeast to fully grapple with the energy crisis," Bell said...
Apart from safety, the biggest problem facing Ugandans is finding enough to eat. The food shortage is most acute in the rural northeast, where U.N. officials estimate that 136,000 people are on the verge of starvation. Savage Karamojong tribesmen, armed with Kalashnikov automatic rifles looted from one of Amin's arsenals, raid villages and harass the missionary outposts where relief food and medicine are distributed. Famine may eventually hit Kampala, where many workers earn 500 shillings ($68) or less a month, barely enough to purchase three bunches of green bananas, the staple of the diet. Complains a Kampala...
Carter aides said last week that despite the wins in the Northeast, Kennedy was too far behind to ever catch up. "It's not all over," Orren insisted, adding that the New York results may force Carter out on the campaign trail...