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Their new album, One for the Road, a loopy, hard-driving souvenir of a 1979-80 concert tour, has settled down comfortably in the higher altitudes of the Top 40, and these hardy perennials of British rock's golden age have just embarked on a two-month concert tour of the States. All this is ample testament to the surprising staying power of their antic stagecraft, disheveled musicianship and-particularly -to the cheeky satire and sideways poignancy of Ray Davies' music...
University officials and MATEP lawyers declined to say how much money the two-month delay will tack on to the cost of the plant...
...Unemployment in May jumped to 7.8% of the work force, from 7% in April and 6.2% in March, the steepest two-month rise in at least 32 years. The rate already is well above the 7.2% figure that the Carter Administration had forecast for the end of the year. Each week 675,000 laid-off workers are filing claims for unemployment compensation...
...two-month tide of refugees is hardly abating. Last week 18,000 arrived, and there are still some 500 American boats at the Cuban port of Mariel, held there by the Cuban authorities until they decide who should be piled aboard. The overcrowded craft are often ordered to depart at night now, making the 110-mile journey even more dangerous. The estimated death toll of refugees so far: at least 25. "Mother Nature has been kind to these people," said one Coast Guard officer. "Only good weather has prevented a real disaster...
...election that Africa will long remember. It has been marked by political violence, brutality and intimidation, perhaps the worst in the history of the continent's turbulent independence movements. During the two-month campaign in Zimbabwe Rhodesia, there have been 250 deaths and more than 207 declared violations of the cease-fire agreement painstakingly hammered out at London's Lancaster House conference last fall...