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...those at the reunion were satisfied that either force or quiet diplomacy would bring the missing journalists back. Some Indochina hands argued that the prisoners would never be returned as long as the U.S. continued to prop up the Lon Nol government. Others were less political; Louise Stone -wife of Freelance Photographer Dana Stone, who was on assignment for CBS News-announced that she is preparing her own mission on foot through the area in Cambodia where her husband was last seen...
...confrontation tactics with Britain's powerful miners' union cost the Tories the general elections last February, his more mellow conciliatory tone in the unsuccessful October campaign cost him the support of party hardliners. The right wing also bridled at Heath's use of government intervention to prop up ailing firms and restrain wage demands...
...Strong Prop. Inflation shows signs of abating. The wholesale price index has dropped 0.5% since November; retail prices are being marked down for a wide range of goods-clothes, appliances, and notably autos (see cover story next page). Because inflation and interest rates are relaxing in several parts of the world, stocks have been rising on the European and Japanese exchanges; in London, where shares recently scraped a 21-year low, values have jumped back by 62% since...
...moment, the strongest prop under the stock market is the fact that the institutions that were the big buyers last week still have plenty of money; mutual funds have about 15% of their assets in cash. Stovall of Reynolds believes that "people are now more afraid of missing a market than they are of a long recession." If so, there will be many more busy days on the exchanges...
...still the retreat continues. Last week. President Ford asked Congress for an additional half-billion dollars to prop up the Thieu and Lon Nol regimes in Vietnam and Cambodia; more money to visit more death from the skies upon innocent people. The conductor has changed, the orchestra is different, but the composer, Henry A. Kissinger '50, and the symphony of murder and repression are the same. Yet we sit quietly listening to the strains of death, and our voices are still...