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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 26, 1980
nation
Cost of living increases
U. S. officials say Cubf 0 ' 1
is giving leftists guns
1.4 percent in February
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The cost of
living shot up another 1.4 percent in
February for a compounded annual
inflation rate of 17.7 percent, the
Labor Department reported
Tuesday.
Grocery prices dropped slightly
last month, but the overall Consum
er Price Index rose higher on rapidly
increasing energy and housing costs.
Gasoline pump prices have now
risen 68 percent in a year.
The overall February jump in re
tail prices was identical to January’s
1.4 percent and represented more
bad news for President Carter in an
election year.
Although the current intlation rate
is much higher, the administration
has predicted inflation of between 11
and 12 percent for all of 1980, com
pared to 13.3 percent last year.
Administration economists say the
rate will cool later this year as the
Carter anti-inflation program begins
to take effect.
The February Consumer Price In
dex stood at 236.4, meaning goods
and services that cost $100 in 1967
now cost $236.40.
Home financing costs rose 2.9 per
cent in February, the Labor Depart
ment said, reflecting a 2.2 percent
increase in mortgage rates and a 0.4
percent rise in house prices. The in
crease was the smallest since August
1978.
“Perhaps house prices are going to
stabilize because no one can buy
them any more,” said department
analyst Patrick Jackman.
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Gasoline prices rose at a monthly
rate of 7.3 percent, almost the same
as January’s 7.4 percent.
Household fuels rose 2.9 percent
during the month. Home fuel oil
prices rose 5.1 percent, following a
5.3 percent increase in January.
As a result of the recent sharp
price increases, the spendable earn
ings of an average urban blue-collar
worker in a family of four — after
taxes and adjusting for inflation —
declined 1.4 percent in February.
The Labor Department said those
earnings are now down 7.3 percent
from a year ago, the biggest such
slide since it began keeping the earn
ings figures in 1964.
Although the monthly CPI in
crease was the same in January and
February, the Labor Department
said the compounded annual rate —
what the .980 figure would be if infla
tion continues unchanged — was
slightly different for the two months.
Feoruary’s 17.7 percent was down
slightly from January’s 18 percent.
Both were the highest rates of infla
tion since August 1973, when gov
ernment food controls were re
moved and the monthly rate reached
1.8 percent.
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The department considers it more
accurate to use compound interest
rather than simple interest in figur
ing the annual rate.
The brightest spot in the February
picture was the food and beverage
category, where for the first time in
recent months, prices remained un
changed. Grocery prices declined
0.4 percent, following a 0.2 percent
drop in January.
Labor Department analysts
warned there will be more bad infla
tion months ahead, but declined to
predict the exact level. Energy and
home mortgage rates are expected
to continue to rise, they said, and
food prices may start increasing
again, offsetting possible declines in
some other areas.
Automobile financing charges
continued to increase sharply — up
1.7 percent — and charges for auto
mobile insurance rose 1.3 percent.
Medical care increased 1.5 per
cent, faster than in recent months.
Apparel and its upkeep rose 0.6
percent, slightly less than January’s
0.9 percent. Prices of jewelry, lug
gage and sewing materials com
bined rose 3.8 percent, partly re
flecting the increased prices of pre
cious metals that go into jewelry.
Entertainment rose 1.2 percent,
following a 1 percent increase in
January. Higher prices of sporting
goods and equipment contributed to
that.
It was the second month in a row
that grocery prices have declined
slightly. Fresh vegetables, pork,
poultry and eggs accounted for much
of the decline.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The admi
nistration Tuesday accused Cuba
of directly assisting communist
groups and leftists guerrillas with
men and weapons to help over
throw the ruling centrist junta of
violence-plagued El Salvador.
Officials from the State and
Defense departments told a
House subcommittee there is evi
dence the Fidel Castro regime is
helping infiltrate men and
weapons into El Salvador through
its northern neighbor, Honduras.
“The Hondurans believe, and
our intelligence agrees, that their
territory is being used as a con
duit for men and weapons into El
Salvador by insurgents with
Cuban support,” said Deputy
Assistnt Secretary of Defense
Franklin Kramer.
“Cuban influence on El Salva
doran and Honduran leftist orga
nizations is long-standing, and
there are clear indications that
the Cubans are assisting these
groups in their attempt to over
throw the current government of
El Salvador.’’
The same charges were echoed
by Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State John Bushnell. Both
appeared before the House Fore
ign Operations Subcommittee to
request nearly $9 million in milit
ary aid for Honduras and El Sal
vador.
Bushnell said: "Hondurans are
following developments in El Sal
vador with intense interest, con
cerned that if that country were to
fall into the hands of extremists,
Honduras could not help but be
affected. Indeed, it is already
affected.
"There is evidence that moun
tainous and sparsely populated
areas of Honduran territory are
being used for the illegal smug
gling with Cuban support of in
surgents and weapons into El Sal
vador." Both officials explained
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that part of the $3.53 may,
military aid requested foi J
d uras is to help that«*
“prevent such activitiesaii
subverting a
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Bushnell and Kramet
noted the ties between
President Fidel Castroaiarfe
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and shabby system thatlKts to put it <
Castro described as the lotiB^ear-old
Cuban people today.
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WASHINGTON — The chief de
veloper of medical uses for the drug
DMSO says it is “criminal” for the
Food and Drug Administration to
deny its benefits to arthritis victims
and other sufferers.
“It has the widest range of poten
tial efficacy of any drug, ” Dr. Stanley
Jacob of the University of Oregon
Medical School told the House Com
mittee on Aging Monday.
But the FDA, after 16 years of
reviewing tests for various uses, has
approved it only for the bladder ail
ment interstitial cystitis, while de
nying it for arthritis, bruises and an
array of other uses Jacob endorses.
Jacob accused the FDA of being
“biased.”
Dr. J. Richard Grout, director of
the FDA’s bureau of drugs, said all
uses of DMSO except for interstitial
cystitis have been turned down be
cause tests were not made with prop
er controls or were inconclusive.
Grout, who supervises drug
approvals, Dr. William J. Gyarfas,
who reviews committee recommen
dations, and Dr. Marion J. Finkel,
who makes the final decisions, all
testified they have no prejudice
against DMSO, an inexpensive by
product of paper manufacturing
known chemically as dimethyl sulfo
xide.
Jacob at one point interrupted
Grout’s testimony to say a colleague
once overheard Gyarfas say, “I’m
going to bury that drug once and for
all.” Gyarfas denied making the re
mark and insisted he has no pre
judice against DMSO.
Jacob and three other physicians
testified DMSO relieves arthritis
pain, speeds recovery' from hums
and bruises, saves lives in concussion
cases, and makes it unnecessary to
amputate fingers of scleroderma vic
tims.
The FDA rejected use of DMSO
for scleroderma last year after find
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which causes skin ulcers that some-
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WHITE PLAINS, N Y. — Jean
Harris, headmistress of an exclusive
girl’s prep school in Virginia, was in
dicted Tuesday on a second degree
murder charge in the slaying of
“Scarsdale Diet" author, Dr. Her
man Tarnower.
Harris, 57, also was charged with
criminal possession of a weapon.
The grand jury action, announced
by Westchester District Attorney
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not to require defense atton jovernmer
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to Tarnower’s estate to
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