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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
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The Reagan administration
said Wednesday it rejects as
"spurious'’ a Soviet proposal to
reduce medium-range nuclear
strength to ‘‘300 units on both
sides" by 1990
A U S State Department
spokesman said the plan would
leave untouched the most for
midable intermediate-range
weapon in the Soviet arsenal,
the triple-headed, mobile SS-20
missile A major American ob
jective at the talks has been to
dismantle the SS-20s
About 280 SS-20 systems,
capable of hitting targets any
where in Europe, have already
been deployed The West has
no comparable intermediate
range weapon in place
The revised Soviet offer was
disclosed Tuesday in Moscow
At the same time the Kremlin
assailed as ‘‘absurd" a draft
treaty submitted last week by
the American delegation The
United States proposed that
both sides dismantle or cancel
plans to deploy a variety of so
phisticated missile systems.
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
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