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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1982)
emerald inter/national Inflation rate spirals upward WASHINGTON Sharply higher winter food costs are being blamed by an alysts for an upward price spiral that is casting a shadow over the moderating inflation rate that was one of the economic bright spots of 1981 However, overall January figures for prices at the wholesale level to be released today by the Labor Department still were expected to be well below the big monthly increases common for several years before last spring The recession is continuing to hold down non-food prices somewhat by stifling demand for goods But the January rise was con sidered likely to be above December's 0 3 percent in crease that capped a year of just 7 percent inflation at the wholesale level, far below the 11 8 percent of 1980 The main culprit in January was food prices that may have matched or even exceeded their 1 5 percent increase for all of last year Analysts commenting in ad vance of today's report said meat prices played the major part in pushing up January food costs — and. therefore, overall wholesale prices American, Soviet negotiators stalled GENEVA. Switzerland American and Soviet negotia tors. amid mounting indications of an impasse, conferred for 2'h hours Thursday in the 15th full round of talks on limiting medium-range nuclear arms in Europe The session followed a point ed exchange between Wash ington and Moscow, high lighting the distance between the two sides at the politically sensitive talks, which began Nov 30 fUU C010» POSTERS T SHIRTS * SWEATSHIRTS I Posters 5 5.00 ♦ 51.50 Posloge, eo T-Shirts 5*50*.. 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Chisholm decides to leave Congress WASHINGTON Rep Shirley Chisholm, who came to Congress as an out spoken maverick 13 years ago. said Thursday she now finds the job tedious and frustrating and will not run for re-election It has become increasingly difficult to carry the tragic mes sages back from Washington to the jobless, homeless and hopeless Brooklynites, the New York Democrat said in a written statement Chisholm 57, the first black woman ever to win a seat in the House of Representatives, became known nationally for her fiery speeches and her 1972 campaign for the presidency But in recent years, as she gained seniority and influence, her once angry style grew more subdued, leading some critics to say she had lost interest in her work “I haven’t been angry for some time now. It burns up too much of the energy I need," she told an interviewer in 1979 "You don’t get anything with wild rhetoric. I’ve lived to see how it works.” But she minced no words Thursday in describing the Reagan administration as one "that is cancelling the past 50 years of human progress in America.” Ironically, she is now on the Rules Committee, where loyalty to the leadership is the prime qualification for membership Fighting rages in Syrian city DAMASCUS, Syria Fighting raged Thursday between rebel Sunni Moslems and an estimated 8,000 Syrian troops shelling the city of Hama for the ninth day. Western diplomatic and other foreign sources said The leftist government said Hama was sealed off but that reports of a revolt were United States slanders One Western resident of Damascus attempting to reach the besieged city 120 miles north of here was turned back by police who told him he could not continue because of fight ing He said he saw Pres Hafez Assad's reinforcements head ing into Hama and ambulances coming out Casualty figures could not be estimated accurately, but diplomatic and other accounts say the number of killed is in the hundreds and damage is exten sive in the city of 200.000 Hama is a stronghold of Sy ria s Sunni Moslem majority and the outlawed Moslem Brother hood, which has been fighting to oust Assad and replace his 12-year-old government with a Moslem fundamentalist regime Although 65 percent of the Syrian people are Sunnis, Is lam’s majority sect, and 11 per cent are Alawites, the latter control the government OXALLAHAN’S^ and KPNW 1120 Present THE DATING GAME Ualentine’s Day, February 14th 1st Game: 9:30p 2nd Game: 10:30p 3rd Game: 1 1:30p j k KPNW’s Lee Gordon is your host. 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