Proposed coal contract may boost consumer costs
The United Mine Workers contract proposal ahead of ratification could lift consumer costs through higher wages and fringe benefits, with first year raises exceeding the national median. Utilities may face higher electricity prices due to coal cost rises, though some pass through may be absorbed. In related news, January trade deficit reached 24 billion dollars, with oil imports rising, while consumer prices spiked 0.84 percent month over month and inflation gauges showed sharper underlying increases.
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Miners May Lose Food Stamps Under TaftHartley
In Charleston, AP reports that striking coal miners risking cutoffs from food stamps if they refuse to obey a Taft Hartley back to work order. President Carter has warned he may invoke the act if miners do not ratify a contract this weekend. State welfare commissioner Leon Ginsberg said food stamp aid is for those in a legal work stoppage and could be halted for violators.
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Somoza proposes opening Nicaragua to all ideologies
President Anastasio Somoza proposed in an interview to allow all political parties including communism, signaling a shift as democratic elements seek his resignation. He branded the Monimbo resistance as an illegal mutiny while promising reforms to permit multiple ideologies and parties.
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Monimbo
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Rhodesia asks U S support for sanctions relief pact
Prime Minister Ian Smith urged President Carter to help lift international sanctions and back Rhodesia’s agreement with black moderates to establish majority rule by December 31. Washington offered no clear commitment as five bombs exploded in Salisbury with no casualties and unconfirmed claims linked to black nationalist guerrillas. Smith said a multiracial government and new constitution would be formed within two weeks and pressed the U S to join in stopping terrorism and removing sanctions. He questioned whether the United States and Britain could ignore moral obligations to aid Rhodesia’s transition to democracy.
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Carter
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U.N. security tightens as guards rise at missions
United Nations diplomats have bolstered protection with more foreign security agents and armed escorts amid a surge of European and Latin American terror and kidnapping incidents. U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young now receives permanent plainclothes protection, while several embassies including those of the Soviet Union Egypt Israel Jordan Syria Iraq and Cuba are heavily guarded.
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