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...Swollen Joints. Conducted by a team headed by Dr. Irving Selikoff of New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, the study examined a total of 1,029 people, 638 of whom were randomly selected from both quarantined and unquarantined farms or had eaten food produced on them. The remainder were employees of the company that manufactured the fire retardant and others referred by doctors or checked at their own request. Among the randomly selected group, 37% had such neurological symptoms as loss of memory, muscular weakness, coordination problems and headaches; 27% suffered from painful or swollen joints...
...racial conflict and drug abuse. Sometimes the reasons are listed vaguely as "apathy" or "disrespect." Men who never should have been drafted in the first place received bad discharges only because they were too much trouble to train. They are the victims of overeager recruiters seeking to fill quotas swollen by the war. The list of warcaused injustices accounting for bad discharges is almost endless...
Some Congressmen remain skeptical. Democrat Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana thinks the proposed budget is grotesquely swollen. Says Jacobs: "How unrealistic can this Government get? The difference between a $13 million investigation and a $500,000 investigation is that with the former, ways will somehow be found to waste...
Symbolically, however, the importance of steel prices has, if anything, been swollen by decades of publicity. Steel still goes into an extraordinarily broad variety of products; makers of goods ranging from autos to toasters may seize on steel boosts, justifiably or not, as an excuse to raise their own prices. And makers of many other basic materials tend to watch how politicians react to steel increases as a clue to what price hikes they themselves may get away with...
...present crisis began in September, when intense speculation forced the government to cut the overvalued peso loose from its two-decade mooring at 12.5 to the U.S. dollar. Wary of Mexico's swollen, $24 billion debt and mounting balance of payments deficit, investors began a precipitate capital exodus, dropping the value of the peso more than 40%. In late October, renewed trading forced a second round of devaluation, tumbling the peso to 24.5 to the dollar-half its previous value. Inflation bounded, approaching an annual rate of 30%. Worse, the government has announced huge jumps in the price...