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...reached agreement, mostly on Socialist terms. Over the next nine months, credit should expand by $35 billion, with small and medium businesses that are engaged in export given preference. Meanwhile, almost $5 billion in new taxes and charges is likely to be levied, including higher transportation and utility rates, stiffer taxes on fancy foods and other consumer goods, an auto-license surtax and a possible 100% increase in the $20 national tax on television sets...
...confessed felon. On June 4, the very day of the California state G.O.P. primary he might have won if the Watergate cover-up and his personal game plan had worked, Magruder will go to jail. The ten-month minimum sentence for his part in the scandal was stiffer than he expected after more than a year of cooperation with the prosecutors. His pretty wife Gail could not hold back the tears, but Magruder kept his composure as he read a prepared statement to an impassive Sirica...
...They're [the Wheaton squad] not bad," a generous Muscatine said after the match. "They have a reputation for being fairly solid." Not solid enough, however, as the 'Cliffe squad had faced much stiffer competition throughout the season. This was no real match...
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan issued an even stiffer warning. He said: "If the Lebanese government allows terrorist headquarters to enjoy their freedom in Beirut and at night they cross into Israel, I think a good part of Lebanon will be destroyed and deserted." Lebanese Premier Takieddin Solh denied that his country was responsible. Mrs. Meir's government also came under fire from some Israeli newspapers, which charged that inadequate security arrangements had allowed the commandos to carry out their raid. At funeral services for the dead, Mrs. Meir's personal representative, Minister of Police Shlomo Hillel, was drowned...
Competition was much stiffer for the ten worst of the year's biggies. Many bad songs with no redeeming features had to be omitted from the list. But I hope a few of your own prunes made my list, which is organized chronologically rather than by degree of rottenness...