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ENERGY COSTS ROSE AT SHARPEST PACE
Wholesale inflationihits 13%
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inflation at the wholesale "We've always said it's best to look at these percent for the whole year.
level surged to an annual rate of 13.3 percent in June figures, rather than at month-to-month fluctuations," ENERGY PRICES jumped 4.1 percent in June, the
as energy costs rose at their sharpest pace in more said deputy White House press secretary Larry sharpest rise since March 1981, the department said.
than a yar, the government reported yesterday. Speakes. But Speakes has found significance i the They had fallen in each of the five previous months,
Even with June's big jump, inflation for the first monthly figures, however, when they were different. tumbling overall at an annual rate of 27.5 percent.
half of the year was running at a modest 2.5 percent, On April 9, for example, when the report for March June's boost was propelled by sharply higher
calculated annually, s of the Labor Depr- marked a decline in prices, he called it "further gasoline and heating oil prices. Gasoline prices dim-
calculatede annuallyg officialss.ofstheneLaboreDepar-
tment said as they released the new report on the evidence we are bringing down the rate of inflation." bed 4.1 percent, heating oil costs were up 7 percent
Producer Price Index for finished goods. That com- JACK LAVERY, chief economist for the Merrill and natural gas prices rose 2.9 percent, the report
pares with a7 percent gain for all of last year and 11.8 Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith brokerage, said, "I said.
percent in 1980. don't thnk today's statistics should raise legitimate In the first half of the year, energy prices were
ECONOMISTS cautioned that last month's in- consternation about any return to double-digit in- falling at an annual rate of 17.1 percent.
crease - the biggest since March 1981 - wasn't a sign flation for the year."
the economy was returning to the persistent double- "It's a short-lived phenomenon," he said. "The FOOD PRICES last month rose 0.5 percent, less
digit inflation levels of past years. And the White energy component has beenquite volatile." than in the previous two months, for an annual in-
House noted that the index rose only 3.5 percent from Economists are predicting inflation at the flation rate of 8.8 percent in the first six months of the
June 1981 to June 1982. wholesale level will run in the range of 5 percent to6 year, the department said.

Woman raped
An Ann Arbor woman was raped at
knifepoint in her home Thursday, police
said. The woman, 32, reportedly was in
her housein the 2300 block of Parkwood
when a man, in his 20s, entered the
building through a window at ap-
proximately 3:30 a.m. He threatened
her with a knife, raped her, and left on
foot, police said.
Female pedestrian assaulted
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sexual conduct occurred at ap-
proximately 9:40 p.m. Wednesday
when a man, reported to be in his late
teens or early 20s, grapped a 39-year-
old Ann Arbor woman froim behind at
the corner of Hubbard and Huron Pak-
way and tried to drag her into a wooded
area. the woman had a mace-like spray
which she managed to spray at the at-
tacker, police said, and he fled. The
assailant was said to be wearing shorts,
a T-shirt and tennis shoes.

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Hospital comedy tries
hard to be successful
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Call me a fool, but McKean's
straight-as-a-hyperdermic-needle ac-
ting made this obvious .romance in-
teresting to watch. It looks like Mar-
shall did too, because the jokes and fun
are completely overshadowed by these ;
two whenever they're on screen. That's
bad for the film, giving ita very uneven
tone, but good for romantics.
The worst part of this comedy z
(because it is the best part
dramatically) occurs when McKean
must overcome his fears of failure in
the operating room. In a flashback
scene, we see him as a young boy
already dressed in white smock and
stethoscope being prodded on by elder
generations of doctors to "operate" on
a Mexican piniatta. The thirty-second
scene is extremely well done. Unfor-
tunately, it's in the wrong movie,
causing abrupt shifts from the levity Mi'cKean
before and after.
Young Doctors is just produced too ... acting straight
well to be as funny as Airplane. No
shoddy sets here, everything looks very stars of the soaps appear in the film, in-
professional. Again, that clashes with cluding John Beradino, Emily
the cheap, laugh-a-minute film that McLaughlin, Steven Ford, Tom Ligon,
Young Doctors is supposed to be. and Demi Moore.
Practically everyone in the film per- It may not make much sense to say
forms wonderfully. Harry Dean Stan- that this film is bad because it's too
ton as a basement pathologist is rough good, but in spite of the film's faults I
and sleazy; Dabney Coleman as the liked it. Young Doctors in Love will
chief of surgery is infatuated with probably look better on TV where
money and his ego; only Patrick Mac- commercial interruptions and a bit of
Nee is wasted in a minute role as head censorial editing may make the film a
of the emergency ward. little worse, which means it'll end up a
- Young Doctorsis billed assa satire of little better. Guess which network it'll
soap operas which it isn't. But several be on.

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