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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from 2,000 to 3,900 for one U.S. dollar in four days. For a time, a hooker could be hired for less than $1. But when hopes for a cease-fire rose, the piaster rate dropped to 1,500 per dollar...
During World War II, Tra at first led a 200-man guerrilla band near the Laotian border but rose rapidly in the ranks of the Viet Minh, the Communist-led liberation movement. In 1945, as the leader of a Viet Minh force that occupied the imperial capital of Hue, he was quartered in the former French Resident's master bedroom. After the first night, Tra complained that the bed was too soft; he wound up sleeping on the floor. In 1946 Tra became chief of staff of the Viet Minh in central Viet Nam. Not long after...
Inflation has subsided drastically, adding stability to consumer purchasing power. Helped by a sizable decline in food prices, the consumer price index in March rose at an annual rate of only 3.6%, less than a fourth of its increase as recently as last September. The performance in forthcoming months may not be quite that good, but price increases are slowing to a point where they no longer swallow up every penny of increase in consumers' earnings...
...their happy surprise, the economists have been proved wrong. Italy's 1974 exports to Iran and the Arab countries rose 93%, France's 60%, Britain's 53% and West Germany's 85%. Total sales from Western Europe to all Arab nations, plus Iran, rose to an estimated minimum of $16 billion in 1974 from $10.6 billion in 1973, and seems sure to shoot up even more this year...
Work-study funding rose only $7555 to $287,741, although Harvard intended to ask HEW for $1.5 million. Last year Harvard requested $1 million, Malin said...