European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 4, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 instant Coffee expected to hit $6.49 an 8-oz. Jar White Plains . Up by mid july Coffee lovers who favor the instant brands of Nestle co., inc. Will be laying out $.49 or an Bounce Jar of taster s Choice and $5.95 for 10 ounces of regular nescafe. The company citing a 440 per cent increase in Green bean prices since the july1975 Frost that withered 73.5 per cent of Brazil s Coffee crop monday announced wholesale Price increases ranging from 5 to 13 cents an ounce on All its soluble cof fees effective May 28. Brazil is the world s largest Coffee producer and supplies 60 per cent of All bean imports. The lag period before the roaster s Price is passed along to the shopper has lengthened in recent months to at least 60 Days. Supermarket and other retail out lets Are finding it difficult to keep Pace with the rapid run up in wholesale Lis prices and warn that the consumer still has not Felt the full Brunt of the most recent increases both for instant and ground the past 12 months Nestle said the International Coffee organization s composite Index Price for Green Beans has risen 140 per cent. Nixon demands retraction by Post $6.9 a on for jobs Senate votes outlay to fund Carter plan Washington a the Senate i calling for expenditures of $20.4 billion to fund major portions of president Carter economic stimulus program. The appropriations measure passed monday includes $4 billion for Public work Sand $6.9 billion for Public service jobs in state and local governments. It also Call for $1.2 billion for specialized employment and training programs such As an Urban youth service corps and a retraining pro Gram for displaced of the measure which cleared the Senate 63-15, said the funds would create nearly one million jobs directly or indirectly. Pregnancy test claimed to be 99.5% accurate Buffalo . A a refined preg Nancy test has been found to be 99.5 percent accurate in 544 cases evaluated at deaconess Hospital . Jack Lippes chairman of obstetrics at the Hospital said the new blood test can confirm pregnancy in a woman As Early As one Day after menstruation was to have , the test can indicate at that Early Date if the pregnancy is Abnor Mal he most accurate test now used is 98 per cent accurate said Lippes who is Best known for his invention of the Lippes Loop birth control other pregnancy tests the new one is based on the presence of a hormone called human Cho ionic Gonadotropin. The hormone is produced by the human Placenta beginning Early in pregnancy. How it work the refinement involves a quantitative analysis of hug in the patient s blood Lippes said. The test is based on the work of or o. P. Bahl. Chairman of Ceil molecular biology at the slate University at Buffalo who first isolated and purified the hug molecule in 1972.because the amount of hug produced in Early pregnancy multiplies geometrically periodic readings that show a lesser in crease would indicate an abnormal fetus developing. Lippes the 11-month study of the new test 184 women tested positively and 360 negatively there were no cases where the test Sam a woman was pregnant when in fact shews not. False positive readings some times occur in tests now used. Before approving the measure the Senate rejected two attempts led by re publican lawmakers to reduce spending. Sen. Richard Schweiker r-pa., was Defeated in an Effort to Cut $3.9 billion from the total targeted for Public service jobs Instate and local governments. Sen. Robert Dole failed to win approval for an amendment cutting the $4 billion Public works item in half. The Senate measure is similar to a Mea sure passed earlier by the House. But the House Bill includes $2.2 billion originally intended for payments to individuals spending which Carter has decided to eliminate from his program for economic Stim ulus. Washington a former presi Dent Richard m. Nixon through his Law yers has asked the Washington Post to retract a Story that Nixon was aware in january 1973 of hush Money being sought to buy the watergate burglars is aide to Nixon said the Story is untrue and that the tape transcript on which it was based made no reference to Hus Money. We Are prepared to go to the mat on this said col. Jack Brennan. Nixon s chief of staff in a Telephone Call tothe associated press. We just Are Posi Tive we know that phrase does not appearing the transcript of the special prosecutor s letter from Nixon lawyer Herbert j. Miller was addressed to Ben Bradley executive editor of the Post. Bradlee was out of town and there Wasno immediate comment from any spokes Man for the transcript in the Lead Story of its sunday edition the Post quoted from a transcript of a conversation Nixon had with aide Charles on Jan. 8.1973. Nixon has maintained and no previous tapes have contradicted that he first Learned of the requests for the Hus Money from White House counsel John w. Dean Iii at a March 21. 1973, meeting inthe Oval said the Story by Bob Woodward and Scott Date became Nixon s principal line of defense in rebutting charges that he was aware of the watergate coverup earlier than March 21."the article went on to say that in the Jan. 8 meeting Nixon said god Damn hush Money us How Are we going to unintelligible How do we get this stuff. Miller s letter to Bradlee said the draft cited by the Post was subsequently re South Lawn is jumping president Carter claps in rhythm As member of the jazz minors band plays during a performance that took place monday on the South Lawn of the White House. The Oregon based band per formed As part of the Kickoff for the capful t summer in the Parks pro Gram. Associated press photo Vised. Among Many other changes in the transcript the final transcript contains no reference whatever to hush Money. The re cords of the special prosecutor the Post was asked to retract the Story by publishing a compensating headline article stating that the special prosecutor s transcript of the Jan. 8, 1973. Conversation Between Richard Nixon and Charle Colson contained no reference to hush , too has denied there was men Tion of hush Money in the conversation part of which was introduced As evidence in the watergate cover up said the portion of the conversation where the reference was said Mohave occurred was t about watergate at All. He said it was a discussion of How Roget publicity on a Story written about fund raising and revolved around sen. Birc Bayh mind. Aagaat plans movie about Hemingway new York a metro Goldwyn Mayer announced monday that it plans a filmed life of writer Ernest Hemingway based in part on the Book How it was by Mary Hemingway widow of the Nobel announcing Purchase of film rights to the Book. Mem vice president Richard Shepherd acknowledged at a news Confer ence that there were Are so Many famous people to be depicted who Are still alive and we have Roget permission from All of he said. One of them is Cuba s Leader Fidel Castro to whose regime mrs. Hemingway gave the late author s Home outside Havana. But Shepherd said saw no difficulties in that Quarter and expected to film some sequences in Cuba. It is another question with some of Hemingway s earlier wives we will certainly try to get permission from Martha Gelhorn. The next to last mrs. Hemingway mrs Hemingway , a writer herself now lives in London. Neither she nor her predecessor Hadley Hemingway a Florida resident has indicated whether or not she will con sent to be portrayed in the problem another problem was who would play Marlene Dietrich if she consented to replayed. The actress now ill in Paris had a key role in scenes with Hemingway after the liberation of that City in 1945. Shepherd said the film was budgeted at Many Many Many millions of dollars All put up by Mem he said production was tentatively scheduled to begin in the fall of 1978. He also said that it was Loo Early to decide who would play the aul Horand other famous people. Mrs. Hemingway declined to say How much Mem paid for her Book. The film is to be produced by Jay Weston who made lady sings the blues and directed by Sydney Pollack Best known for three films starring Robert Redford Jeremiah Johnson the Wayne were and three Days of the writer is Waldo Salt who won an Oscar for Midnight Cowboy did not expect to have much to do with the film. Mrs. Hemingway asked what she thought of the recent spate of books about her Hus Batik. Answered with one word
