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Kettlewell has now called up his chief witnesses in the trial, which is expected to last at least another week. Troy said yesterday that Hussain will testify in his own behalf, but declined to describe how the defense will proceed or to predict the trial's outcome...
Most economists predict that continued slow inflation will result in some interest-rate relief by summer, but they also warn that the prospect of a 1983 federal budget deficit that could run as high as $180 billion may send the cost of money surging once again by the end of the year. In testimony before Congress last week, Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, urged the lawmakers to reach a compromise with the President that would cut the deficit. That, he said, plus the decline in inflation, would bring down the cost of borrowing...
What causes these financial jitters is primarily the mammoth size of projected budget deficits. Experts now generally predict that the Government will run perhaps $500 billion in the red during the next four years. Investors are fearful that the Federal Reserve will be forced to accelerate its expansion of the money supply to meet the Government's borrowing needs and thus rekindle inflation...
...Guatemalan junta has announced plans to dismantle the death squads and bring to trial former government officials. But policy to shore up Guatemala's troubled economy has been made public. New elections, promised by Rios Montt, have yet to be set Clearly it is too early to predict in which direction Rios Montt will go. It should be at least as clear to Washington that to change policy so dramatically to ward a regime which is only a month old is folly...
...enough that he as an educator, gives evidence of thinking in statistical rather than individual terms, he omits any mention of the 25 percent of these low achievers who do finish college, presumably by overcoming severe obstacles. ("It is impossible, of course," he says in passing, "to predict precisely which students will fall by the wayside.") It is worse that, in drawing absolute lines for the privilege of moving up the socioeconomic ladder, he relies so trustingly on yardsticks that may favor the advantaged...