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...time, it indeed seemed as if the U.W.C. had set up an alternative government. The council's headquarters was a large, comfortable villa in a middle-class neighborhood of Belfast. There the U.W.C. distributed "ration coupons" without which gasoline could not be purchased because the militants had taken control of nearly all the province's gas stations. "We are out to spare the people as much as possible," said a U.W.C. spokesman, "and squeeze the biggies...
...said, he found that no fewer than 63% of all drivers were exceeding the still-in-effect 55 m.p.h. national speed limit. Added Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington: "There is no direct evidence to support the contention that by raising the price you are going to ration the amount of gasoline that will be available." On the other hand, Congress and the Nixon Administration are extremely reluctant to impose such mandatory conservation measures as gasoline rationing or new taxes on energy-intensive machines. Simon put it bluntly: "Conservation should be voluntary. People should have a freedom of choice...
...Milton Davis, 40, have lengthened the bank's hours, added more employees to prevent long lines at tellers' windows, and raised interest rates on savings accounts. This quarter, the bank will show its first gain in six years, and has an nounced plans for a development corpo ration to help save the decaying South Shore...
Shantytown refugee camps have risen like festering sores throughout the region, providing the barest relief to half a million people. Their individual monthly ration is only 26 Ibs. of flour and 4.4 Ibs. of dried milk, the nutritional equivalent of about one-third of the average American's diet. In their weakened condition, disease has spread quickly. Typhus, dysentery, measles and gastroenteritis are rampant. At the teeming Lazaret camp near Niamey, Niger's capital, cholera threatens the 15,000 refugees. In Chad, some emaciated nomads begged a U.N. official not to send them medicines, pleading that death from...
Waist-deep snow kept the crashed Fairchild almost invisible from the air and made escape from the mountain impossible. For more than a week, the little band lived on a daily ration of a square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party...