Inflation Across Nations Hits World Markets Hard
United Press International reports inflation as the top global problem driven by raw material shortages and surging oil prices. It traces price spikes from Tokyo to Beirut, notes wage and tax responses, and cites examples in the United States, Japan, France, Brazil, Chile, and the Philippines.
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Argentina
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Cambodia
Chile
Germany
Israel
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Mohammed Suleiman
France
Italy
Brazil
Britain
Salvatore Allende
Thailand
West Germany
Philippines
End of GI Bill Seen Nearing Passage of Time
Washington sources say the GI Bill of Rights may be dropped in the future while promising not to cut benefits for those already served. Officials cite no wartime service and volunteer forces as reasons, with pay alignment reducing need for extra veteran aid. The VA now spends about 14 billion annually on four major programs.
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UPI
Aie
Pentagon
Watergate report highlights campaign financing and integrity call
The committee's Watergate report urges a higher standard of conduct by public officials and leaders, notes no evidence of GOP or DNC complicity, and details Milk Fund ties and corporate contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign. It covers break in, dirty tricks, and the Responsiveness Program while naming Kalmbach, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Rebozo, Hughes, and Mills.
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Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Wilbur D. Mills
Republican National Committee
Democratic National Committee
Milk Fund
Herbert W. Kalmbach
Kalmbach
John D. Ehrlichman
Agriculture Department
Select Committee
John N. Mitchell
Donald Segretti
Florida
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Mills
Humphrey
Howard Hughes
Charles G. Bebe
Rebozo
FBI reports 15 percent rise in serious U.S. crime
FBI Director Clarence Kelley releases Uniform Crime Reports showing a 15 percent rise in serious crime in the first quarter of 1974. Violent crime up 4 percent, property crime up 16 percent, with larger gains in small towns and rural areas. Regions vary from a 23 percent rise in the South to 9 percent in the North Central states. Attorney General Saxbe calls for coordinated reform across police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections to halt the trend.
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U.S
Washington
UPI
Clarence M. Kelley
William Saxbe
Heart attack strikes Laos PM Souvanna Phouma
VIENTIANE UP I Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma 72 is expected to be out of action for two months after a heart attack. Doctors say he rests comfortably at home with bed rest for five days and a desk ban for about two months. The attack occurred Friday during tests for dizzy spells.
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Souvanna
Nader says Britain discredits U S nuclear safety
Ralph Nader and the Union of Concerned Scientists assert British officials discredit U S nuclear safety standards. They cite Britain's decision to reject U S built reactors and pursue a new design, arguing safety concerns over health risk to British people.
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U.S
Cambridge, Mass
UPI
Ralph Nader
Union of Concerned Scientists
Britain
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Ford
Britissh
D Estaing orders new Bastille Day celebration style
Paris observed Bastille Day with a ground level parade from Place de la Bastille instead of the Champs Elysees. President Giscard d Estaing ordered celebrations returned to the people and deployed 13 046 troops marching past low income housing as crowds danced through the night.
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Paris
UPI
Place de la Bastille
France
Avenue Des Champs Elysees
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Giscard d’Estaing
Champs Elysees
Rue Sevigne
Saint Louis
Bastille
Giscard d
Shift from drugs to alcohol noted among teens in UPI report
A federal study from Health, Education and Welfare finds 90 percent of U.S. teens have had alcohol experiences before 18, with 13 percent drinking weekly. Dr. Morris Chafetz of NIAAA says there is a major shift from other drugs to alcohol, based on a 15,000 student poll, the largest of its kind.
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UPI
Morris Chafetz
National Institute On Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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