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Thank you for data on increasing pressure against smokers in the U.S. [April 24]. I will prepare myself before my next trip to the U.S. Tell me, though, is it good form to throw drinks at drivers of gas guzzlers-those polluters of my air or does one slash tires? Also, are those antismoker sprays aerosol? If so, there goes the ozone layer, and I get skin cancer. Is shin-kicking of aerosol wielders 'in," or do you cut off ties with scissors...
After clobbering Friedberg he outdueled Josh Marwell, 5-3, taking two of the last three touches by ducking under Marwell's high threatening blade, and the third by feinting a backhand slash into the Penn sabreman's side, then withdrawing the blade and quickly thrusting his point into the opposite side of Marwell's body. Chipman crushed his last foe, Young Sohn, with one high, two side and two low touches...
...budget time approached early this winter, Andreotti proposed a new round of austerity to slash the towering public-spending debt. The unions, already angered by an unemployment total of 1.6 million workers, or 8% of the labor force, responded with a vengeance. Early in December more than 150,000 striking metalworkers marched on Rome to protest. Andreotti defended his economic package-a mix of new investments as well as new tariffs-but the union leaders rejected it and threatened to call a general strike in mid-January...
Foreign anger has been sharpened because Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda has been promising for months to slash the trade surplus, yet nothing has happened. Last week something finally did. Faced with the real possibility that the U.S. and Europe would take protectionist moves to block the flow of Japanese goods into their markets, the 72-year-old Fukuda carried out a sweeping reorganization of his government to deal with what he called "the worst economic crisis in Japan's postwar history...
...will total an alarming $45 billion. The overriding goal of Carter's plan is to cut these huge figures down to size: by 1985 to reduce the growth of energy consumption to 2% annually, to cut gasoline consumption by 10% below current levels, and to slash oil imports to less than half of what they would otherwise be- meaning about one-eighth of total energy consumption...