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...second year running. Total damage for natural disasters in 1973 exceeded $1.2 billion. Federal funds ex pended to assist local governments and citizens in the 3 1 states plagued with nat ural disasters came to an estimated $750 million, and 75,000 families received direct relief. It was scant consolation that the year before, 48 major disasters cost $3.5 billion in damages, making disaster relief expenditures for the past two years more than the amount expended for the preceding decade...
...flurry of global concern about the energy crisis, one seriously hurt group of victims has been getting rel atively scant attention: the developing nations. Though these countries use comparatively little fuel, the hopes of their burgeoning populations are pinned firmly to the growth of oil-burning in dustries. The moment that Arab oil pro duction was cut back, their best-laid plans for industrialization began falling apart. Now the Arabs have eased the production cutbacks, but have simultaneously decreed astronomical price boosts that many poor nations of the Third World simply cannot afford...
...moderation of their elders and secretly formed the terrorist "Fifth Wing" of the E.T.A. Consisting of a few dozen men at most, it is a tautly disciplined, highly trained guerrilla band, well supplied with arms either captured from the police or bought in Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Most Basques have scant interest in the E.T.A.'s brand of terrorism. But though unlikely to achieve its ultimate goal of Basque independence, the E.T.A. is today the group with the greatest ability to create serious trouble for Franco's regime. It has proved that it can strike when and whom...
...restricted to a single class, fans are usually protected from gross mismatches. Tip sheets give not only the dogs' won-loss history, but how each animal has done against particular rivals. With a little luck, a studious and conservative gambler can keep in the black. There is scant danger of fixed races because the dogs are put in an elaborate security area called "the lockout room" well before each run. While in lockout, their color, markings and even toenail tint are compared with the characteristics listed on the dogs' birth certificates, thus assuring that ringers cannot run under...
...charges and countercharges, the case has come down to a cruel stalemate. The strongest piece of physical evidence in the crime is four palm prints found in the Percy mansion, but they have proved not to be Hohimer's or Malchow's. The remaining physical evidence is scant and ambiguous, and none of it directly links either Hohimer or Malchow to the crime. Yet by the testimony of witnesses, one of the members of the burglary gang is the likely killer. Said William Hanhardt, commander of the Chicago police department's burglary division: "Malchow and Hohimer...