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Following the Prime Minister's release from the Hadassah Medical Center, and after a brief rest period at his home, he resumed his regular daily duties, with the full approval of the two physicians who treated him, Professor Marvin Gottesman and Professor Sylvan Lavie. The story in your report, that the Prime Minister has to put in a shorter working day, or is working less hours, is incorrect...
TIME has rechecked all aspects of its story, which was based on what it believed was firsthand knowledge of a meeting between Prime Minister Begin and three consulting neurologists. TIME was apparently misled as to the meeting and regrets the error. TIME stands by its report that for a period of weeks following his stroke on July 19 the Prime Minister's work load was significantly reduced...
...major sources of funds flowing into the United States," pumping up credit availability and increasing inflation. "But the key and by far the most important change is to switch to a policy of constraining money supply as distinct from manipulating interest rates." Greenspan grants that "for an interim period, interest rates could be highly unstable; the prime rate could easily go up to 16%." But he would have gone further than Fed Chairman Volcker: "I would also have announced some major curtailments of federal subsidy programs for credit, such as programs to subsidize mortgages and student loans." He predicts that...
...states, including Illinois, New York and Texas, usury laws hold rates to 12% or less. Lenders there are likely either to cut back on making home-buying loans or attach tighter conditions to them. A typical instance: First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Chicago has just shortened the repayment period on all mortgage loans to 25 years from 29 years, and now requires a minimum 25% down payment, vs. 20% formerly...
...vistas of sandy beach. But the nationalistic winds sweeping through the Third World have created a new mood of anti-imperialism in the Caribbean, directed against the big Brother to the north. Says Deputy Prime Minister George Odium of newly independent St. Lucia: "The Caribbean is going through a period of searching for its own structures and systems. Traditionally we have had the Western systems and structures. Now we are looking at them to see how they are related to our own circumstances...