Inflation Eases in August More Modest Price Rise
Inflation slowed for a second straight month in August with consumer prices up only three tenths of 1 percent. Food costs rose slightly while services inflation eased, mortgage rates fell, and overall year over year inflation was 6.6 percent. Real spendable earnings fell as hours declined.
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Washington
Labor Dept
Anti-Treaty Campaign Targets Senate to Block Canal Pact
Conservative groups plan a multimillion dollar push aimed at about 30 key Senate members to defeat ratification of the Panama Canal treaty. The drive uses mass media, mail campaigns, and a coordinated coalition including the American Conservative Union and other groups. Targeted lawmakers include Senate leaders Byrd and Baker as debate on the treaty nears.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Panama Canal
American Conservative Union
Sen. Strom Thurmond
R-S.c
ACU
Gary Jarmin
Robert C. Byrd
Dw.va
Howard Baker
R-Tenn
Action Line answers on credit, church mix, and binocular repairs
Readers ask about seven year credit marks after repossession or voluntary returns and how to address them with Credit Bureau. The note offers to relay welcome church options for mixed race couples in High Point area. It also lists repair options for misaligned binocular prisms and notes local pregnancy testing services.
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Anon
Credit Bureau
High Point
Anon. A. Action Line
G.G.B
Public Library
Bushnell Optical Company
Bausch & Lomb
Pasadena
Oriental Optical
East Walnut
Calif
Ex CIA Official Links Nixon Party Drugging Inquiry
Former CIA science chief Dr. Sidney Gottlieb testified before a Senate panel that he was asked to determine if any members of President Nixon’s traveling party were drugged during a 1971 trip to an unfriendly country. He said Nixon himself was not drugged and named other attendees, including the personal physician, as showing disoriented behavior and inappropriate tears.
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Washington
CIA
Senate
Nixon
Sidney Gottlieb
Walter Tkash
Gottlieb
White House
Oklahoma Baptists condemn sex change surgeries at Baptist Center
An Oklahoma Baptist leader says church members were shocked to learn sex change operations were performed at Baptist Medical Center. The hospital board had approved then suspended the procedures after church complaints. The convention's hospital committee may vote to veto continuation at its October meeting.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Douglass
The
Baptist Church
David W. Foerster
Baptist Medical Center
Baptist Hospital
South Carolina Buyer Acquires Sequoia Presidential Yacht
Norman F. Pulliam, a Spartanburg investor, bought the former presidential yacht Sequoia for 286000 from Thomas Aquinas Malloy. He plans to display it at Myrtle Beach, with viewing expected in spring. admission and dock location to be announced. The government had estimated 2 million to replace it and Carter cited 800000 annual savings in expenses.
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Columbia
S.C
South Carolina
Myrtle Beach
Norman F. Pulliam
Spartanburg
James B. Edwards
Thomas Aquinas Malloy
Providence
R.I
Malloy
Pulliam
Carter
White House
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