Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uniformed cops worked full time on the case, while another 700 officers volunteered to spend their off-duty hours helping. But while top officers professed optimism, some lower-ranking detectives saw the huge manpower effort as window dressing. They consider the chances of seizing Son of Sam as minimal, unless, however subconsciously, he wants to be caught, is overtaken before he can flee a shooting site or some citizen provides a revealing...
...Unless Vance, in the time remaining on his tour begins to crack some of the Middle East's hard nuts. Jimmy Carter's optimism will be heavily discounted. Administration officials already have grim forebodings; the region's leaders warn that time is running short. Sadat has said that if this is not the year for peace, hate and war will again be in terrible, senseless ascendancy," while an Israeli Cabinet minister added: "If the situation freezes again, we will face another crisis...
...days later a mysterious caller informed the Frankfurt office of Reuters news agency that Ponto had been murdered by a radical group known as Roter Morgen (Red Morning). The caller threatened more executions unless "political prisoners" held by the "exploiting class" were freed. Police scarcely needed to be told that radicals were responsible. So many killings have been carried out by terrorist organizations spawned from West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang -17 since 1969-that the file on these radicals has been computerized...
...major commercial banks ballooned from $110 billion in 1969 to $550 billion last year. Now the banks are reaching the ceiling of their willingness to lend to troubled nations-and countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Zaire may be nearing the end of their ability to repay, unless they get new credits. Various experts believe that without emergency loans from the IMF, a number of less-developed countries would default on their loans, possibly bringing down some big banks or triggering an international economic collapse...
...White House will have to take a much firmer stand against Big Business and Big Labor. Says Harvard Economist Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "Quite honestly, at the moment I don't think the Administration's got an anti-inflation program." Unless the White House gets tougher, some economists fear, the job of restraining prices will fall to the independent Federal Reserve Board and its Chairman Arthur Burns, who has repeatedly made it clear that he will tighten up credit rather than permit runaway inflation. Whatever else it might accomplish, that strategy...